Senior Backend Engineer

Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 70 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 8,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Cursor, Windsurf, Scale AI, X, and over 20 % of the last YC batch.

Small team, huge impact: We’re only 20 people today, backed by $18.5 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 in the coming year.

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.

This role will work closely with the founding team. The nature of the work will evolve rapidly in the fast-moving environment but will involve:

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 and owning backend systems in production

Responsibilities

Build the core product, from APIs to agentic pipelines. Be independent and own major features through development and deployment.

Operate, scale and extend our infrastructure. You'll be responsible for running your code in production.

Work directly with customers to solve their problems. All team members participate in customer support in order to drive empathy for our users and help us build better products.

Your Qualifications

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

Previously founded a startup

Extra bonus for a dev-tools startup

Culture interview (20-min video call)

We’re looking to learn about you, your skills and experience, and your motivation to join our team.

Technical interview (take-home, 1 week to complete, 2 hours total)

No Leet Code! Real-world problem solving in our coding environment. We try and make it fun.

Debugging interview (40-min live w/ one of our engineers)

You'll work through a set of debugging problems so we can learn how you reason.

Founder interview (45-min)

Meet with Han or Hahnbee! AMA at the end.

On-Site (half-day)

A technical round

Lunch - get to know the team

Behavioral round

Spec assessment - we present you with a problem and ask you to write up a solution for it (no code)

Offer

cue confetti! Dandelion Chocolate on us come Week 1!

Competitive compensation and equity | Flexible work culture

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

401k or RRSP | Free lunch and dinners

$420/mo. wellness stipend | Annual team offsite

Senior Backend Engineer
• San Francisco, California, United States