Product Engineer

present of AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mintlify in San Francisco is seeking a product engineer who can build customer facing features from start to finish, collaborating closely with design and engineering teams. The ideal candidate brings a strong technical focus, whether in front end interfaces or back end systems, and cares about why a product works as much as how it is built.

You should own problems, talk to customers, and refine details that make software feel polished.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to build customer-facing features from idea to launch.
• Strong technical depth in either frontend or backend systems.
• Experience collaborating with design and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Own feature development from concept through delivery.
• Talk to customers to understand needs and validate solutions.
• Refine details to ensure the product feels polished and reliable.

Skills

Frontend development

Backend development

Product ownership

Customer conversations

End-to-end ownership

Job description

The role asks for a product engineer who can build customer facing features from start to finish, working closely with design and engineering. A strong candidate brings a clear technical strength, either in front end interfaces or back end systems, and cares about why a product works as much as how it is built. They should be comfortable owning problems, talking to customers, and refining details that make software feel polished.

How it fits the AI era

AI changes the work by making it easier to generate code and prototypes, so the engineer spends more time on product judgment, user experience, and solving hard technical problems like rendering performance and reliable content systems. What stays human is the ability to understand customer needs, make design tradeoffs, and take ownership of a feature from idea to launch. The role still requires hands on building and a strong technical spike.

How it builds AI experience

Working at a company whose product helps docs stay current and be read by AI agents means direct exposure to how AI consumes and maintains technical content. An engineer would gain experience building interfaces and systems that support AI driven documentation, learning where AI helps and where human review matters. To build that experience, one could practice with AI tools for code generation, study how AI agents read structured content, and work on projects that combine product engineering with documentation or content systems.

Worth showing

• React front end building
• Backend system architecture
• Product intuition
• Customer conversations
• End to end ownership

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About Mintlify

A documentation platform built so a company's technical docs stay current on their own and can be read directly by AI agents, not just people.