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

Mintlify

Backend Engineer/ Senior Backend Engineer

San Francisco, CAfull-time