Senior Backend Engineer — AI & Content Platform APIs

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

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

PTO 20 days

401k

Wellness stipend

Health/dental/vision

Transit benefits

Free lunch & dinners

Annual offsite

Job summary

Mintlify, a rapidly growing docs platform, is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer in San Francisco to build the core APIs, content pipelines, and AI infrastructure powering thousands of documentation sites.

You will tackle hard problems across content processing, AI retrieval, and infrastructure, collaborating with design and engineering, and taking features from development through launch with strong ownership and product intuition.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience.
• Strong experience with systems design, API architecture, databases, and production systems.
• Strong product intuition and care about the "why" as much as the "how" when building software.
• Adaptable and willing to work beyond the backend when needed to ship a feature.
• Appreciates ownership and thrives when defining solutions.
• Eager to talk directly with customers and use insights to shape what we build.

Responsibilities

• Building backend systems end to end: APIs and services behind our editor, dashboard, and customer documentation sites.
• Scaling our content infrastructure: ingesting, validating, transforming, and publishing content from thousands of repositories.
• Powering AI experiences: search, retrieval, and agent infrastructure behind our AI products.
• Performance and reliability: caching, queues, databases, and observability as our products grow.
• Shaping product direction and engineering approaches across the stack.

Skills

Systems design

API architecture

Databases

Production systems

Product intuition

Customer interaction

Ownership

Adaptable

Job description

Mintlify, a rapidly growing docs platform, is looking for a Senior Backend Engineer in San Francisco to build the core APIs, content pipelines, and AI infrastructure powering thousands of documentation sites.

You will tackle hard problems across content processing, AI retrieval, and infrastructure, collaborating with design and engineering, and taking features from development through launch with strong ownership and product intuition.