Mintlify

Senior Backend Engineer

Mintlify
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Base Salary

$190k - $265k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and ship backend APIs and services for the editor, dashboard, and customer documentation sites.
  • Build and scale content ingestion, validation, transformation, and publishing pipelines for thousands of customer repositories.
  • Develop search, retrieval, and agent infrastructure for Mintlify’s AI products.
  • Improve caching, queues, databases, performance, reliability, and observability as the platform scales.
  • Contribute to product direction, technical decisions, and cross-functional feature delivery from development through launch.
  • Own projects, define solutions, and use direct customer insights to shape the product.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of software development experience.
  • Strong experience with systems design, API architecture, databases, and production systems.
  • Strong product intuition and an ability to consider both the purpose and implementation of software.
  • Adaptability and willingness to work beyond backend development when needed to ship features.
  • Ability to operate with high ownership and define solutions in ambiguous environments.
  • Willingness to speak directly with customers and incorporate their feedback into product decisions.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity.
  • 20 days of paid time off annually.
  • 401k or RRSP.
  • $420 per month wellness stipend.
  • 100% coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Free transportation to and from work via Uber.
  • Free lunch and dinners.
  • Annual team offsite; previous destinations included Alaska and Hawaii.

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About Mintlify

51-200 employees

Mintlify builds a SaaS platform for developer documentation and knowledge infrastructure, used by engineering and product teams to create, host, and search product docs. It sells subscriptions and enterprise plans, and supports over 4,000 companies and 20 million users annually. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held.

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