Developer Relations

Sapiom is building payment infrastructure for AI agents. We enable agents to make purchases for people, manage payments between businesses, and buy the compute, inference, and APIs they need to operate. As agents become part of everyday life, we're building toward the experiences people will use to trust them with their money: one place to set what agents can do, see what they did, and stay in control across every agent they use.

Through one integration, Sapiom connects agents to funding sources and payment methods. Our intent verification checks that each transaction matches what the person or business authorized. Spending controls define where and how much agents can spend, with a record of every transaction and its outcome. We're building toward a world where people and businesses can delegate payments to agents with confidence.

We're a small team in San Francisco with deep experience in payments and infrastructure. Our founder was Director of Engineering in Payments at Shopify for five years. We've raised $50 million in our first 12 months from Accel, Dragonfly, Coinbase Ventures, Okta Ventures, Menlo Ventures and Anthropic.

Agents are starting to build, buy and transact on their own, and developers are deciding now which infrastructure to trust, often from a quickstart, a demo or a Discord thread. This is a chance to define what developer relations means for the agentic economy.

For now, you'll be our only Developer Relations hire, owning how developers discover, adopt and succeed with Sapiom alongside our founder, product and engineering. This is a high-autonomy, senior role for a builder first: an engineer, developer advocate or technical founder who's fluent in AI agents, ships working code, and has the credibility to earn a community's trust.

Own the full developer journey with Sapiom, from first discovery to an agent running in production. You'll build the demo agents, templates and docs that get developers there fast. You'll also build Sapiom's presence among AI agent builders and LLM developers, online and at meetups, hackathons and conferences.

Inside Sapiom, you'll be the connective tissue between developers and our product team, turning what you hear into clear product requirements. The goal: a thriving cohort of builders who don't just use Sapiom, but build remarkable things with it in public.

• Ship production-quality demo agents, templates and sandbox environments that developers actually adopt, across MCP, LangChain, the Vercel AI SDK and the OpenAI and Claude agent SDKs. Use AI to build faster and skip the busywork.

• Own the developer journey from discovery to production: write and maintain quickstarts, tutorials and onboarding flows, find where developers drop off, and fix it.

• Make Sapiom easy for AI coding agents, not just people: keep llms.txt, docs and agent skills sharp so Claude Code and Cursor build with Sapiom correctly the first time.

• Explain hard ideas simply, in writing, on stage and 1:1: why agents need financial infrastructure, and how to build with payments and spending controls.

• Be the developer's voice inside Sapiom: turn feedback into prioritized product requirements, review APIs and SDKs before they ship, and see fixes through to release.

• Promote Sapiom across the developer community, online and in person: speak at meetups, hackathons and conferences, host our own events, and help developers on Discord, GitHub and X.

• Turn partner wins into case studies, and define what Developer Relations looks like at Sapiom as the function grows.

• 7+ years as a software engineer, developer advocate or technical founder building developer-facing products or content, ideally in APIs, infrastructure, payments or AI. You've been an early DevRel hire or built a community largely on your own.

• You're a builder first: you write real TypeScript or Python and ship production-quality demo agents and sandboxes without waiting on engineering. Your GitHub shows it.

• Fluent in AI agents: you've built agentic apps with LLMs, tool calling and MCP, know how agents behave (and misbehave) in production, and use AI daily. You have opinions on where the agentic economy is going and why agents need financial infrastructure.

• Deep understanding of APIs, SDKs and developer experience. You've written docs people actually read and are at home on GitHub, developer portals and Discord.

• A public builder presence in the AI developer community (open source, a technical blog, talks or a following), plus an existing community or the credibility to build one fast.

• Exceptional communicator and synthesizer who's comfortable with ambiguity: you make complex ideas clear in writing, talks and 1:1s, turn scattered feedback into insights product and engineering act on, and define the function as you build it.

• Nice to have: You've built for money moving (payments APIs, wallets, stablecoins, machine payments or billing), led DevRel at an API-first or infrastructure company, or run hackathons and developer programs at scale.

• Location: San Francisco in office five days a week.

• Reports to: CEO