3 hours ago
Base Salary
$235k - $260k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the main Firecrawl repository, including triaging issues, reviewing pull requests, cutting releases, and writing documentation.
- Keep the self-hosting experience easy to clone, run, and maintain.
- Build new context primitives, starting with anydoc, the document parsing engine.
- Define scope and API design for open source primitives.
- Ship code and review pull requests regularly while improving repository quality and adoption.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience.
- A demonstrated open source track record maintaining a popular repository or making significant contributions to one.
- Experience owning a repository end to end, including issue triage, pull request review, releases, and documentation.
- Experience building parsers, crawlers, browser tooling, or developer libraries.
- Understanding of how open source projects gain adoption and spread.
- Strong autonomy and judgment in making scope, API design, and merge decisions.
- Impressive public work or experience as a maintainer, founder, early startup engineer, or builder.
Benefits
- Full-time position based in San Francisco, California.
- 15 days of mandatory PTO, with additional time available after 24 days by request.
- 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all parents.
- $100 monthly wellness stipend.
- Up to $1,000 per year for learning and development.
- Team offsites and a three-month paid sabbatical after four years.
- US-based full-time employees receive medical, dental, vision, life, disability, telehealth, 401(k), FSA, commuter, and optional supplemental insurance benefits.
- SF-based employees receive office snacks, drinks, team lunches, and a loaner electric bike.
- The technical chat and 1–2 week paid work trial are paid at a contractor rate.