Backend Engineer
At a glance
Mid-level Backend Engineering role at Mintlify. San Francisco · full-time · $130,000–$200,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build APIs and services for the editor, dashboard, and customer documentation sites, taking features through launch
- Improve the pipeline that brings in customer repository content, checks it, transforms it, and publishes it
- Develop search, retrieval, and agent systems that support the AI products
- Strengthen caching, queues, databases, and observability to improve system speed and reliability
- Help shape product choices and engineering approaches across the stack
What you bring
- Strong grounding in systems design, API architecture, databases, and production systems
- Product judgment that helps you weigh why a feature matters alongside how to build it
- Willingness to work outside backend tasks when needed to deliver a feature
- Comfort owning open-ended projects, talking with customers, and using their feedback to guide development
Who this fits
This role suits a product-minded backend engineer who enjoys defining solutions, owning work from development through launch, and contributing to technical and product decisions. The role is based in San Francisco.
From the employer
Why Mintlify?
We're on a mission to empower builders.
Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 20,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Microsoft, PayPal, Spotify, Coinbase, X, and over 20% of the last YC batch.
Small team, huge impact: We recently passed 65 employees and raised a $45 million Series B led by A16Z and Salesforce Ventures. Each new hire has a huge impact on shaping the company's trajectory.
Culture of slope over y-intercept: We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities.
We grew in value faster than headcount and we’re looking to align the two quickly.
We’re looking for product-minded backend engineers to build the core systems behind Mintlify. You’ll tackle hard problems across content processing, AI retrieval, and infrastructure that powers thousands of documentation sites.
As a Backend Engineer, you’ll build the APIs, content pipelines, and AI infrastructure that power Mintlify’s products. You’ll collaborate across design and engineering, contribute to product and technical decisions, and take features from development through launch.
What you'll work on here
Building backend systems end to end: Designing, implementing, and ship the APIs and services behind our editor, dashboard, and customer documentation sites
Scaling our content infrastructure: Improve how we ingest, validate, transform, and publish content from thousands of customer repositories
Powering AI experiences: Building the search, retrieval, and agent infrastructure behind our AI products
Performance and reliability: Improving caching, queues, databases, and observability as our products and customer base grow
Shaping product direction and engineering approaches across the stack
What you bring to the table
You have strong experience with systems design, API architecture, databases, and production systems
You have strong product intuition and care about the “why” as much as the “how” when building software
You are adaptable and willing to work beyond the backend when needed to ship a feature.
You appreciate a high degree of ownership and thrive when defining solutions rather than following a spec
You’re eager to talk directly with customers and use those insights to shape what we build
Why you should join our engineering team
You’ll solve technically ambitious backend problems alongside a team that values craft, speed, and thoughtful execution. Here’s a taste of what the team has built:
Engineers here are product builders with high agency; you’ll drive change and have a voice in strategic decisions.
You’ll have plenty of heads-down builder time on a small-but-mighty team where the best ideas win.
We’ll find the intersection between what excites you and business priorities. You’ll own projects, ship, and see immediate impact.
Company Benefits:
Competitive compensation and equity
20 days paid time off every year
401k with Employer Match
monthly wellness stipend
100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision
Commute stipend to help get you to and from work
Free lunch and dinners
Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii, Jackson Hole)
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