Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

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San Francisco, CA, USA
In-Office
250K-315K Annually
Senior level
Software
Join us in our mission to empower builders.
The Role
Act as technical owner for large enterprise customers, ship backend production code, design self-hosted/VPC/SSO deployments, build integrations, debug full-stack production issues, and productize deployment patterns while feeding insights back to the core product.
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 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.

What you'll work on here
  • Serving as the dedicated technical owner for one or more of our largest enterprise customers after the contract has been signed

  • Shipping code, reliable software, and systems that carry production traffic from day one

  • Pioneering the patterns for deploying Mintlify inside organizations with 100,000+ employees

  • Scoping ambiguous customer asks into shippable plans, and saying no when the ask would fork the product

  • Designing and deliver self-hosted and VPC deployments, SSO (SAML/OIDC), and least-privilege access architectures

  • Building enterprise-specific integrations with customer systems as they exist today, finding the least invasive path rather than demanding a rebuild

  • Debugging production issues across the full stack and own them to resolution

  • Productizing the patterns you see across deployments: self-hosting packages, runbooks, integration templates

  • Feeding field knowledge back into the core product so we never solve the same problem twice

What you bring to the table
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with real production ownership (you've been paged, you've done the postmortem), focused on backend work

  • Direct customer-facing experience: you've sat across from a customer, explained a technical limitation, and kept their trust

  • Comfort with enterprise deployment realities: cloud infrastructure, networking, SSO, compliance-conscious environments

  • Strong written and verbal communication: you can brief an executive and pair with their platform team in the same afternoon

  • Bonus points: Previous founding experience. Experience in an FDE, solutions architecture, or professional services motion.

Why you should join our Enterprise Solutions Team

The Enterprise Solutions team is new and this is a founding seat. We operate as a mini-startup inside each large enterprise deployment with full ownership and direct contact with the customer. You'll define how Mintlify builds enterprise-ready products and prove out the motion for serving the largest organizations in the world, with a direct and measurable line from your work to revenue.

Company Benefits:
  • Competitive compensation and equity

  • 20 days paid time off every year

  • 401k or RRSP

  • $420/mo. wellness stipend

  • 100% coverage for Health, dental, vision

  • Free Ubers to and from work

  • Free lunch and dinners

  • Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii)

Skills Required

  • 5+ years software engineering experience with production ownership (on-call, postmortems), focused on backend work
  • Direct customer-facing experience, able to explain technical limitations and maintain customer trust
  • Experience with enterprise deployment realities: cloud infrastructure, networking, SSO (SAML/OIDC), VPC, compliance-conscious environments
  • Strong written and verbal communication, able to brief executives and collaborate with platform teams
  • Previous founding experience
  • Experience in a Forward Deployed Engineer, solutions architecture, or professional services role

Mintlify Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mintlify and has not been reviewed or approved by Mintlify.

  • Healthcare Strength Health, dental, and vision are covered at 100% for employees, with options available for dependents. This comprehensive coverage is consistently highlighted as a core part of the package.
  • Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits Daily free meals, company‑paid rides to and from the office, a monthly wellness stipend, work‑setup support, and team offsites materially enhance day‑to‑day value. These perks are especially impactful for those working in the San Francisco office.
  • Equity Value & Accessibility Compensation includes competitive salary with meaningful equity emphasized across roles. Ownership is positioned as a core component of total rewards at a small, fast‑moving team.

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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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