Backend Engineer

Mintlify

$130K — $160K *
Enterprise Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Strong experience with systems design, API architecture, databases, and production systems
  • Strong product intuition, valuing the 'why' alongside the 'how' when developing software
  • Adaptable and willing to engage beyond backend tasks to ship features
  • High degree of ownership in defining solutions, not just following specifications
  • Eager to engage directly with customers to inform product development

Responsibilities

  • Build backend systems end-to-end, including designing and implementing APIs and services
  • Scale content infrastructure for ingesting, validating, transforming, and publishing customer content
  • Develop AI infrastructure for search, retrieval, and agent functionalities
  • Enhance performance and reliability through improved caching, queues, databases, and observability
  • Shape product direction and engineering methods across the technology stack

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity
  • 20 days paid time off each year
  • 401k or RRSP options
  • $420/month wellness stipend
  • 100% coverage for health, dental, and vision
  • Free Ubers to and from work
  • Free lunches and dinners
  • Annual team offsite events
Full Job Description
We're looking for product-minded backend engineers to build the core systems behind Mintlify. You'll tackle hard problems across content processing, AI retrieval, and infrastructure that powers thousands of documentation sites. As a Backend Engineer, you'll build the APIs, content pipelines, and AI infrastructure that power Mintlify's products. You'll collaborate across design and engineering, contribute to product and technical decisions, and take features from development through launch. What you'll work on here - 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 What you bring to the table - 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 built a virtual filesystem for our Assistant - How we eliminated cold starts for 72M monthly page views with edge caching - What I shipped in my first 60 days at Mintlify - 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. Company Benefits: - Competitive compensation and equity - 20 days paid time off every year - 401k or RRSP - $420/month wellness stipend - 100% coverage for Health, dental, vision - Free Ubers to and from work - Free lunch and dinners - Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii)

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