Senior Backend Engineer
San Francisco$190k - $265kFull-timePosted 1mo ago
About the role
Senior Backend Engineer responsible for building APIs, content pipelines, and AI infrastructure to power Mintlify’s products, collaborating across design and engineering, and taking features from development through launch.
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
- 4+ years of software development experience
- Strong experience with systems design, API architecture, databases, and production systems
- Strong product intuition and care about the “why” as much as the “how” when building software
- Adaptable and willing to work beyond the backend when needed to ship a feature
- Appreciate a high degree of ownership and thrive when defining solutions rather than following a spec
- Eager to talk directly with customers and use those insights to shape what we build
Skills
Required:Systems designAPIsDatabases
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.
About Mintlify
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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