Senior Backend Engineer
About The Position
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 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. 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
Requirements
- 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
Nice To Haves
- You previously founded a startup.
- Extra bonus for a dev-tools startup
Responsibilities
- 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
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity
- 20 days paid time off every year
- 401k or RRSP
- $420/mo. wellness stipend
- Health, dental, vision
- Free Ubers to and from work
- Free lunch and dinners
- Annual team offsite
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
