Backend Engineer

• WHY MINTLIFY?
• We're on a mission to empower builders.
• Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 20,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Microsoft, PayPal, Spotify, Coinbase, X, and over 20% of the last YC batch.
• Small team, huge impact: We recently passed 65 employees and raised a $45 million Series B led by A16Z and Salesforce Ventures. 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.
• We grew in value faster than headcount and we’re looking to align the two quickly.
• Building backend systems end to end: Designing, implementing, and ship 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
• 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
• Why you should join our engineering team
• You’ll solve technically ambitious backend problems alongside a team that values craft, speed, and thoughtful execution. Here’s a taste of what the team has built:
• How we eliminated cold starts for 72M monthly page views with edge caching https://www.mintlify.com/blog/page-speed-improvements
• 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.
• Competitive compensation and equity
• 100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision

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