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Mintlify

Backend AI Engineer

Mintlify, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 10,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Cursor, PayPal, Coinbase, X, and over 20% of the last YC batch.

Small team, huge impact: We’re only 32 people today, backed by $22 million in funding; each new hire shapes the company’s 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.

What you'll work on here

Backend software engineering & infrastructure engineering to support the AI and agentic flows

RAG/data ingestion pipelines

Prompt engineering

Model performance and evals

What you bring to the table

You have 1+ year of software development experience

You possess deep customer empathy, and have the desire to speak with customers and make product decisions

You have a strong ability to learn new technologies and be productive in unfamiliar domains

You're passionate about tasteful user experience

You're experienced with LLMs, RAG systems, and AI automations

Bonus points: You previously founded a startup. Extra bonus for a dev-tools startup

Why you should join our engineering team 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.

We’ll give you plenty of 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.

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.

Company Benefits

Competitive compensation and equity

Free Ubers

20 days paid time off every year

Health, dental, vision

401k or RRSP

Free lunch and dinners

$420/mo. wellness stipend

Annual team offsite

Seniority level Entry level

Employment type Full-time

Job function Engineering and Information Technology

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