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Mintlify

Backend Engineer

Mintlify, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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Why Mintlify?

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.

We're on a mission to empower builders.

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

What you'll work on here

Backend software engineering to build and scale our core product infrastructure

Building the core product, from APIs to agentic pipelines.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Compensation Range: $140K - $200K

Seniority level Entry level

Employment type Full‑time

Job function Engineering and Information Technology

Industries Software Development

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