Senior Backend AI Engineer, Mintlify
$180-250k
+ Bonus & Equity
Documentation platform
Be an early applicant
Documentation platform
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-250k
+ Bonus & Equity
1-20 employees
Company mission
To empower millions of developers worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- For this role particularly, we are looking for a software engineer with deep experience in LLM fine-tuning, RAG systems, and AI automations
What the job involves
- This role will work closely with the founding team. The nature of the work will evolve rapidly in the fast-moving environment but will involve:
- Backend software engineering & infrastructure engineering to support the AI and agentic flows
- RAG/data ingestion pipelines
- Prompt engineering
- Model performance and evals
Application process
- Culture interview (30-min video call)
- We’re looking to learn about you, your skills and experience, and your motivation to join our team
- Technical interview (take-home, 1 week to complete, 2 hours total)
- No LeetCode! Real-world problem solving in our coding environment. We try and make it fun
- Debugging interview (1-hour live w/ one of our engineers)
- 4 bugs. 1 hour. Are you up to the test?
- Founder interview (1-hour)
- Meet with Han or Hahnbee! AMA at the end
- On-Site (half-day)
- A technical round
- Lunch - get to know the team
- Behavioral round
- Spec assessment - we present you with a problem and ask you to write up a solution for it (no code)
- Offer
- Cue confetti! Dandelion Chocolate on us come Week 1!
Our take
Software documentation has long been a challenge for developers, requiring significant time and effort to create and maintain. As companies like Stripe and Twilio set higher standards, the pressure on teams to produce clear, interactive documentation has increased, leaving many struggling to keep up with expectations.
Mintlify addresses this problem by offering a suite of documentation-authoring tools that simplify the creation process. The platform enables auto-generation of documents from codebases, features built-in templates, and incorporates AI-powered chatbots for enhanced user interaction.
With a growing customer base that includes prominent brands like Anthropic and Fidelity and the recent closure of a successful funding round, Mintlify is poised for continued success. The company aims to further innovate its platform by personalizing content and enhancing AI capabilities, positioning itself to meet the evolving needs of software documentation and support in the tech industry.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2024
$18.5m
SERIES A
May 2022
$2.8m
SEED
Total funding: $21.5m
Company benefits
- Flexible work culture
- 20 days paid time off every year
- Health, dental, vision
- 401k or RRSP
- Free lunch and dinners
- $700/year work setup stipend
- $200/month wellness stipend
- Annual team offsite
- Unlimited free mints
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Hahnbee Lee
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founded pe•ple (acquired by BetterMode). Experienced Software Engineer, having worked at Duolingo, Cornell Design & Tech Initiative, Cornell Rocketry Team, Tribe Community Platform, Vera.Zone, GoodStuff and Leidos.
Han Wang
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founded pe•ple (acquired by BetterMode) and Foodful. Also an experienced Software Engineer having previously worked at Bettermode and Facebook.
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