Senior Backend Engineer

We're on a mission to empower builders.

• Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 18,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Cursor, PayPal, Coinbase, X, and over 20% of the last YC batch.

• Small team, huge impact: We’re only 35 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.

• 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

• 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

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.

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