We're on a mission to empower builders. We’re looking for self starters to join our fast moving founding team. Our customers include the fastest growing AI companies such as X, Anthropic, Cursor, Perplexity, Scale AI, alongside 7000+ other companies.

We raised our Series A last summer backed by a16z and BCV. We're reaching 70m+ developers every year. And we’re proud of our history, being one of the most popular products used by YC companies.

We grew in value faster than headcount and we’re looking to align the two in the coming year.

Who is an engineer at Mintlify?

Engineers at Mintlify appreciate a high degree of ownership, are passionate about a tasteful user experience and come to work ready to contribute to a small-but-mighty team.

You’ll have plenty of heads down builder time. We believe in the power of strong teams to drive change - and have created an environment where the best ideas win and we can acknowledge when we’re wrong.

Joining the team

We’re all about finding the intersection between what excites you and business priorities. You’ll jump into new territory and learn something new. You’ll own projects and features. You’ll ship.

About the role

This role will work closely with the founding team. The nature of the work will evolve rapidly in the fast-moving environment but will involve:

• Backend software engineering to build and scale our core product infrastructure

• Designing and building APIs and services to support product features

• Maintaining and improving performance, reliability, and scalability of backend systems

• Collaborating with product and design to build customer-facing functionality

• Operating and owning backend systems in production

Responsibilities

• Build the core product, from APIs to agentic pipelines. Be independent and own major features through development and deployment.

• Operate, scale and extend our infrastructure. You'll be responsible for running your code in production.

• Work directly with customers to solve their problems. All team members participate in customer support in order to drive empathy for our users and help us build better products.

Your Qualifications

• 1+ years of software development experience

• Deep customer empathy, including the desire to speak with customers and make product decisions

• Strong ability to learn new technologies and be productive in unfamiliar domains

Bonus points

• Previously founded a startup

• Extra bonus for a dev-tools startup