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Join the fern team

We are a tight-knit team passionate about developer tools.
We’re also musicians, DJs, photographers, wine enthusiasts, runners, dog lovers, and more.

What is fern?

APIs power the internet but they're still painful to work with. They're often untyped, unstandardized, and out-of-sync across multiple sources of truth.

Fern helps teams deliver SDKs and API docs they're proud to share.

Since launching in 2023, we’ve been trusted by 150+ companies, including industry leaders like Square, Webflow, ElevenLabs, LaunchDarkly, Alchemy, and Intercom, to power world-class developer experiences.

APIs aren't just for humans anymore.

We believe it’s time to evolve from Developer Experience (DX) to Agentic Experience (AX), where APIs are also consumed by AI agents. Fern is built for both.

Built in Brooklyn, used around the world.

We’re a team of fewer than 20, working together in-office 5 days a week, and building open source.

Passionate about building for developers? Join us!

Our team

Work with the best

We’re a small, curious, and hard-working team of builders. We’re technical polyglots who love the craft — and the quirks — of programming languages.

While many of us got our start at larger companies, we thrive on the ownership, speed, and impact that come with building at a startup.

Alberto Gateno

Engineer

Alex McKinney

Engineer

Catherine Deskur

Engineer

Chris McDonnell

Sales

Danny Sheridan

Co-founder, Sales

Deep Singhvi

Co-founder, Engineer

Eden Wang

Engineer

Hugh Han

Engineer

Jon Syla

Engineer

Kapil Gowru

Designer

Matt Blank

Engineer

Niels Swimberghe

Engineer

Patrick Thornton

Engineer

Ryan Tish

Operations

Sarah Bawabe

Engineer

Jack Swimberghe

Barkitect

You

Join our team!

Benefits

We help you focus on doing the best work of your life

Working at a startup is lot of time and commitment, we get it. We try to make it easier with the best benefits we can offer.

Above the norm

Living proximity bonus

A bonus of $18,000 per year if you choose to live near the office.

Eat well while you work

Meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) are paid for while you’re working.

Based in Williamsburg

We are in-person first but work from home and take time off as needed.

Low meeting culture

We reduce meeting time so you can work on your ideas uninterrupted.

The basics

Competitive salary based on transparent benchmarks

Fully funded, high quality health, dental and vision coverage.

Visa and green card sponsorship

See Fern in action

Momentum

It's a great time to be at Fern

We’re taking big bets at Fern and they are paying off, there’s still a lot to do but here are 3 reasons why it’s a good time to join.

Funding

We raised a $9M Series A from from Bessemer Venture Partners, YC, and some incredible 🪽 investors.

Why is this important to you?

That means you will be joining when our valuation is still low, granting you many long-term tax benefits.

Growth

Our YoY revenue is over the industry standards for similar companies to Fern.

Why is this important to you?

That means we are nearly profitable and have great long term sales prospectives.

Customer love

We build for our customers like Square, Webflow, ElevenLabs, and more.

Why is this important to you?

We have clear signal on what to build next. You can own ambitious projects and that will get direct feedback from our customers.

Our investors

Backed by leaders

We seek direction from the best and are inspired to aim higher as a result.

Lindsey Li

Investor, Bessemer

David Cowan

Investor, Bessemer

Abhinav Asthana

CEO, Postman

Arash Ferdowsi

Co-founder, Dropbox

lan McCrystal

Developer AI, Stripe

Jo Zhu

Growth, Anthropic

Avlok Kohli

CEO, AngelList

Benny Joseph

CTO, Allbirds

Reed McGinley-Stempel

CEO, Stytch

Katey Caldwell

Investor, TwentyTwo VC

Built with

Fern automated SDK maintenance, allowing us to support all popular programming languages without needing dedicated engineering resources. Working with the Fern team is like having 'McKinsey for APIs' -- they bring expert-level guidance in OpenAPI and SDK design.

Liz Moy

Liz Moy

Senior Developer Relations Engineer

Partnering with Fern, we went from 1 SDK → 4 SDKs and are set up to offer whatever language developers ask for next. Fern also generates our documentation website that perfectly matches Cohere's unique brand identity.

Billy Trend

Billy Trend

Developer Relations Engineer

2 engineers

time freed up annually

We used an alternative SDK generator, OpenAPI Generator, for years, and customers constantly complained. Since adopting Fern, customers have migrated rapidly to our new SDKs and have been blown away by the quality.

Gil Feig

Gil Feig

CTO

The Fern team helped us offer a top-tier developer experience. They embedded with our docs team, migrated over 700+ pages of content, and created an intuitive information architecture across API reference, guides and SDK reference.

Matt Makai

Matt Makai

VP of Developer Experience

The Fern Definition is absolutely fantastic. Compared to OpenAPI, it's more ergonomic and comes with powerful capabilities - you can organize endpoints by resource, import types across files, and represent complex APIs like server sent events and websockets.

Kabir Goel

Kabir Goel

Founding Engineer

Fern is a mission-critical part of Candid's API. Keeping our docs, SDKs, and server implementation in sync was a nightmare. Fern enabled us to adopt API-first development — our engineers update the spec, run fern generate, and everything stays perfectly aligned.

Steve Yazicioglu

Steve Yazicioglu

Head of Engineering

Fern has been instrumental in delivering an incredible onboarding experience to our customers. We often get compliments in sales calls and during new pilot onboardings about the quality of our docs.

Michael Bauer

Michael Bauer

Software Engineer at Nominal

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