Senior Backend Engineer

Mintlify
San Francisco
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 190,000 - 265,000 annuallyFunction: Software EngineeringExperience: 4+ yearsSkills: ["Ownership","Product intuition","Adaptability","Grit","Customer empathy"]

Build and ship core backend APIs, services, and content pipelines that power Mintlify’s editor, dashboard, and documentation sites. Improve ingestion, validation, transformation, and publishing from thousands of customer repositories. Drive AI search, retrieval, and agent infrastructure, while enhancing performance and reliability through caching, queues, databases, and observability. Collaborate across design and engineering to shape product direction and engineering approaches end to end.

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Mintlify
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Senior Backend Engineer

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Job Summary

Build and ship core backend APIs, services, and content pipelines that power Mintlify’s editor, dashboard, and documentation sites. Improve ingestion, validation, transformation, and publishing from thousands of customer repositories. Drive AI search, retrieval, and agent infrastructure, while enhancing performance and reliability through caching, queues, databases, and observability. Collaborate across design and engineering to shape product direction and engineering approaches end to end.
Location: San Francisco
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Software Engineering
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design, implement, and ship APIs and services behind the editor, dashboard, and customer documentation sites.
  • •Scale content infrastructure for ingesting, validating, transforming, and publishing content from thousands of repositories.
  • •Build AI infrastructure for search, retrieval, and agent experiences.
  • •Improve performance and reliability using caching, queues, databases, and observability.
  • •Shape product direction and engineering approaches across the stack from development through launch.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 190,000 - 265,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kWellness StipendPaid LeaveEquity

Key Requirements

  • •4+ years of software development experience.
  • •Strong experience with systems design, API architecture, databases, and production systems.
  • •Product intuition and care about the “why” as much as the “how.”
  • •Adaptable and willing to work beyond backend when needed to ship features.
  • •High ownership; defining solutions and using customer insights to shape what gets built.
Experience:4+ years
Skills:OwnershipProduct intuitionAdaptabilityGritCustomer empathy

Company Brief

Mintlify
Mintlify provides an AI-native documentation platform that automates and beautifies developer documentation, offering docs-as-code, visual editing, and AI assistants to help teams create and maintain developer-facing docs at scale.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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