Job Details

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 28 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

• 4+ years of software development experience
• Deep customer empathy, including the desire to speak with customers and make product decisions
• Strong ability to learn new technologies and be productive in unfamiliar domains
• Strong ownership mentality with the ability to act independently and lead major features through development and deployment
• Bonus points: Previously founded a startup. Extra bonus for a dev-tools startup

Why you should join our engineering team

• You're all about finding the intersection between what excites you and business priorities, and you're excited for your role to evolve accordingly
• You crave a mix of collaborative and heads-down builder time, and are excited to contribute to a small-but-mighty team
• You're looking for an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledge when you're wrong

Company Benefits:

Competitive compensation and equity | Free Waymos

20 days paid time off every year | Health, dental, vision

401k or RRSP | Free lunch and dinners

$420/mo. wellness stipend | Annual team offsite