Backend Engineer — AI/Content Platform, Equity

Doist; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Paid time off

Wellness stipend

Health coverage

Free meals

Annual offsite

Job summary

Mintlify is seeking a Backend Engineer in San Francisco to build the core systems powering our documentation platform. You’ll own APIs, data pipelines, and AI infrastructure that scale across thousands of customer sites.

We value ownership, pragmatic engineering, and collaboration with design and product teams. You’ll ship features end-to-end, improve performance, and help shape the future of our documentation tooling for developers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with designing scalable backend systems.
• Strong understanding of API design and data modeling.
• Experience with production-grade databases and performance tuning.
• Ability to own features end-to-end and ship with minimal guidance.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and shipping 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

Skills

Systems design

API architecture

Databases

Production systems

Job description

Mintlify is seeking a Backend Engineer in San Francisco to build the core systems powering our documentation platform. You’ll own APIs, data pipelines, and AI infrastructure that scale across thousands of customer sites.

We value ownership, pragmatic engineering, and collaboration with design and product teams. You’ll ship features end-to-end, improve performance, and help shape the future of our documentation tooling for developers worldwide.