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• Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 70 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 8,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Cursor, Windsurf, Scale AI, X, and over 20 % of the last YC batch.
• Small team, huge impact: Were only 20 people today, backed by $18.5 million in funding, each new hire shapes the companys trajectory.
• Culture of slope over y-intercept: We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities.
  

Why Mintlify?
We're on a mission to empower builders.

• Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 70 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 8,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Cursor, Windsurf, Scale AI, X, and over 20 % of the last YC batch.
• Small team, huge impact: Were only 20 people today, backed by $18.5 million in funding, each new hire shapes the companys trajectory.
• Culture of slope over y-intercept: We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities.
  

We grew in value faster than headcount and were 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.
Youll 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 were wrong.
Joining the team
Were all about finding the intersection between what excites you and business priorities. Youll jump into new territory and learn something new. Youll own projects and features. Youll 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
  

Our interview process

• Culture interview (20-min video call)
• Were looking to learn about you, your skills and experience, and your motivation to join our team.
• Technical interview (take-home, 1 week to complete, 2 hours total)
• No LeetCode! Real-world problem solving in our coding environment. We try and make it fun.
• Debugging interview (40-min live w/ one of our engineers)
• You'll work through a set of debugging problems so we can learn how you reason.
• Founder interview (45-min)
• Meet with Han or Hahnbee! AMA at the end.
• On-Site (half-day)
• A technical round
• Lunch - get to know the team
• Behavioral round
• Spec assessment - we present you with a problem and ask you to write up a solution for it (no code)
• Offer
• cue confetti! Dandelion Chocolate on us come Week 1!
  

Company Benefits:
Competitive compensation and equity | Flexible work culture
20 days paid time off every year | Health, dental, vision
401k or RRSP | Free lunch and dinners
$420/mo. wellness stipend | Annual team offsite
Compensation Range: $140K - $200K

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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