Senior Backend Engineer

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San Francisco, CA
In-Office
180K-250K Annually
Senior level
Software
Join us in our mission to empower builders.
The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you'll build and scale backend infrastructure, design APIs, enhance system performance, and collaborate with customers and teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
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 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 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

  • Designing and building APIs and services to support product features

  • Maintaining and improving performance, reliability, and scalability of backend systems

  • Collaborating with product and design to build customer-facing functionality

  • Operating, owning, and running code for backend systems in production

  • Scaling, operating, and extending our infrastructure

  • Building the core product, from APIs to agentic pipelines.

  • Working directly with customers to solve their problems

What you bring to the table
  • You have 4+ years of software development experience

  • You are empathetic towards customers, having 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 possess a strong ownership mentality with the ability to act independently and lead major features through development and deployment

  • 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

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, California
28 Employees
Year Founded: 2022

What We Do

Mintlify's docs platform reaches 50 million developers every year and powers documentation for 10,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Cursor, Coinbase, Scale AI, X, and is the #1 YC product used by other YC companies.

With only 28 people today, backed by $22 million in funding, each new hire shapes the company’s trajectory.

We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities - we believe in valuing someone's slope over y-intercept.

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