Backend Engineer

The role

You will build APIs, content pipelines, and AI infrastructure for Mintlify's products. You will design and ship backend systems, scale content infrastructure, and power AI experiences.

What you will do

• Designing, implementing, and shipping APIs and services behind the editor, dashboard, and customer documentation sites
• Improving how content is ingested, validated, transformed, and published from customer repositories
• Building search, retrieval, and agent infrastructure for AI products
• Improving caching, queues, databases, and observability
• Shaping product direction and engineering approaches across the stack

Required qualifications

• Strong experience with systems design, API architecture, databases, and production systems
• Strong product intuition
• Adaptable and willing to work beyond the backend when needed to ship a feature
• Appreciate a high degree of ownership
• Eager to talk directly with customers and use those insights to shape what is built

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and equity
• 20 days paid time off every year
• 401k with Employer Match
• $250 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

About the company

Mintlify is a docs platform that serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 20,000+ companies. The company recently passed 65 employees and raised a $45 million Series B.