Mintlify
Backend Engineer
San Francisco
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About the role
- Each new hire has a huge impact on shaping the company's trajectory. - Culture of slope over y-intercept https://mattrickard.com/hire-slope-not-intercept: We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities.
- You'll tackle hard problems across content processing, AI retrieval, and infrastructure that powers thousands of documentation sites.
Requirements
- You have strong experience with systems design, API architecture, databases, and production systems
- 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
Compensation
- Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii, Jackson Hole)
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity
- 20 days paid time off every year
- monthly wellness stipend
- 100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision
- Commute stipend to help get you to and from work
Company info
- How we built a virtual filesystem for our Assistant https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-we-built-a-virtual-filesystem-for-our-assistant
- How we eliminated cold starts for 72M monthly page views with edge caching https://www.mintlify.com/blog/page-speed-improvements
- What I shipped in my first 60 days at Mintlify https://www.mintlify.com/blog/what-i-shipped
- Engineers here are product builders with high agency; you'll drive change and have a voice in strategic decisions.
- You'll have plenty of heads-down builder time on a small-but-mighty team where the best ideas win.
- We'll find the intersection between what excites you and business priorities. You'll own projects, ship, and see immediate impact.
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