Senior Backend Engineer
MintlifyDocumentation Platform company
San Francisco, United StatesSenior
Andreessen Horowitz
Salesforce Ventures
Bain Capital Ventures
Y Combinator
DST Global
MVP Ventures
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Senior Backend Engineer to build core systems for Mintlify's documentation platform.
- •Mintlify is seeking product-minded backend engineers to build the core systems behind their documentation platform.
- •You will tackle hard problems across content processing, AI retrieval, and infrastructure.
- •Key Responsibilities Build backend systems end to end, including APIs and services.
- •Scale content infrastructure for ingesting, validating, transforming, and publishing content.
- •Power AI experiences with search, retrieval, and agent infrastructure.
- •Improve performance and reliability of caching, queues, databases, and observability.
- •Requirements 4+ years of software development experience.
- •Strong experience with systems design, API architecture, databases, and production systems.
- •Strong product intuition and a focus on the 'why' behind software development.
- •Adaptable and willing to work beyond the backend when needed.
- •High degree of ownership and thrives when defining solutions.
Required skills
Node.jsFastAPIPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchDockerKubernetesCI/CDAWSGitLinuxREST APIgRPCOpenAI APIAnthropic API
Nice-to-have skills
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptRabbitMQWebSockets
Domain expertise
developer-toolsaiproductivity
Benefits & perks
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
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsFastAPIPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearchDockerKubernetesCI/CDAWSGitLinuxREST APIgRPCWebSocketsRabbitMQOpenAI APIAnthropic API