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Backend Engineer

Mintlify· Engineering
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San Francisco$130k - $200kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Backend Engineer at Mintlify building core systems behind Mintlify, tackling content processing, AI retrieval, and infrastructure powering thousands of documentation sites.

Responsibilities

  • Building backend systems end to end: designing, implementing, and shipping the APIs and services behind our editor, dashboard, and customer documentation sites
  • Scaling our content infrastructure: improve how we ingest, validate, transform, and publish content from thousands of customer repositories
  • Powering AI experiences: building the search, retrieval, and agent infrastructure behind our AI products
  • Performance and reliability: improving caching, queues, databases, and observability as our products and customer base grow
  • Shaping product direction and engineering approaches across the stack

Qualifications

  • You have strong experience with systems design, API architecture, databases, and production systems
  • You have strong product intuition and care about the “why” as much as the “how” when building software
  • You are adaptable and willing to work beyond the backend when needed to ship a feature
  • You appreciate a high degree of ownership and thrive when defining solutions rather than following a spec
  • You’re eager to talk directly with customers and use those insights to shape what we build

Skills

Required:Systems designAPI design and architectureBackend developmentProduct intuitionCustomer collaboration

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • 20 days paid time off every year
  • 401k with Employer Match
  • monthly wellness stipend
  • 100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision
  • Commute stipend to help get you to and from work
  • Free lunch and dinners
  • Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii, Jackson Hole)
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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The intelligent documentation platform

The best developer companies (think Stripe, Twilio, MongoDB) have effective and user-centric documentation at their backbone. Mintlify helps any company achieve the documentation they need effortlessly, so that they can focus on building what they do best.

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