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• Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 10,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Cursor, PayPal, Coinbase, X, and over 20% of the last YC batch.
• Small team, huge impact: Were only 28 people today, backed by $22 million in funding, each new hire shapes the companys trajectory.
• Culture of slope over y-intercept: We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities.

Why Mintlify?

We're on a mission to empower builders.

• Massive reach: Our docs platform serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 10,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Cursor, PayPal, Coinbase, X, and over 20% of the last YC batch.
• Small team, huge impact: Were only 28 people today, backed by $22 million in funding, each new hire shapes the companys trajectory.
• Culture of slope over y-intercept: We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities.

We grew in value faster than headcount and were looking to align the two quickly.

What you'll work on here

• Backend software engineering & infrastructure engineering to support the AI and agentic flows
• RAG/data ingestion pipelines
• Prompt engineering
• Model performance and evals

What you bring to the table

• 1+ year of software development experience
• Deep customer empathy, including the desire to speak with customers and make product decisions
• Strong ability to learn new technologies and be productive in unfamiliar domains
• Passion for tasteful user experience
• Experience in LLM fine-tuning, RAG systems, and AI automations
• Bonus points: Previously founded a startup. Extra bonus for a dev-tools startup

Why you should join our engineering team

Engineers at Mintlify appreciate a high degree of ownership, are passionate about a tasteful user experience, and come to work ready to contribute to a small-but-mighty team.

Youll have plenty of heads down builder time. We believe in the power of strong teams to drive change - and have created an environment where the best ideas win and we can acknowledge when were wrong.

Were all about finding the intersection between what excites you and business priorities. Youll jump into new territory and learn something new. Youll own projects and features. Youll ship.

Company Benefits:

Competitive compensation and equity | Free Waymos

20 days paid time off every year | Health, dental, vision

401k or RRSP | Free lunch and dinners

$420/mo. wellness stipend | Annual team offsite

Compensation Range: $140K - $200K

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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