Senior Product Engineer
At a glance
Senior Software Engineering role at Mintlify. San Francisco · full-time · $190,000–$265,000 base.
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What you'll do
- Build customer-facing features with design and engineering partners, taking them from early architecture through release
- Solve product engineering challenges such as faster virtualized rendering and dependable content management
- Polish user flows, including the finishing details that make shipped functionality easier to use
- Profile application speed and build systems that can support a growing user base
- Help shape product choices and engineering decisions across the stack
What you bring
- At least four years of software development experience
- Deep strength in either React, Next.js and TypeScript, or backend systems design, APIs and database optimization
- You bring product judgment to user-facing software and can explain the purpose behind what you build
- You can move into unfamiliar parts of the stack and take ownership of solutions
- You are willing to speak directly with customers and use their feedback to guide product work
Who this fits
This suits a senior, hands-on product engineer who enjoys owning features, making technical and product decisions, and working across the stack. The role is onsite 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 builders to create essential, customer-facing features. You should have a notable technical "spike," whether that’s crafting sophisticated React interfaces or architecting robust backend infrastructure.
As a Product Engineer, you’ll build polished experiences that solve real customer problems. 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 the full lifecycle: Partnering with design and engineering to architect and ship customer-facing functionality from the ground up
Solving complex technical challenges: You’ll tackle difficult problems, from optimizing virtualized rendering to architecting reliable content management system
Driving user experience: Contributing to a frictionless UX, handling the last-mile refinements that transform working code into a great product
Performance and scale: Enhancing application speed through profiling and build scalable solutions that evolve with our growing user base
Shaping product direction and engineering approaches across the stack
What you bring to the table
4+ years of software development experience
A technical “spike”: You have strong experience in either:
Frontend: React, Next.js, and TypeScript, including component architecture, state management, and rendering performance
Backend: Systems design, API architecture, and database optimization
You have strong product intuition and care about the "why" as much as the "how" when building user-facing software
You are adaptable and willing to jump into new territory across the stack 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 product 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)