Design Engineer, Mintlify
$150-200k
+ equity & bonus
Documentation platform
Open for applications
Documentation platform
1-20 employees
Open for applications
$150-200k
+ equity & bonus
1-20 employees
Company mission
To empower millions of developers worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- Position Overview: Our ideal candidate bridges the gap between design and development, crafting beautiful, responsive interfaces while maintaining excellent code quality and performance
- Proven experience building and deploying Next.js applications in production environments
- Strong proficiency with TailwindCSS and component-based design systems
- Active personal portfolio showcasing your design and development work
- Deep understanding of frontend performance optimization and responsive design principles
- Experience with modern JavaScript/TypeScript development practices
- Strong eye for design, typography, spacing, and visual hierarchy
Desirable
- Familiarity with UI/UX design tools (Figma, Adobe XD)
- Experience with testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library)
What the job involves
- We're seeking a creative and technically skilled Design Engineer to join our team, combining strong design sensibilities with modern frontend development expertise
- Develop and maintain responsive web applications using Next.js and TailwindCSS
- Collaborate with designers and backend engineers to implement pixel-perfect interfaces
- Create reusable component libraries and design systems
- Optimize application performance and user experience
- Contribute to technical architecture decisions and best practices
- Mentor junior developers in frontend development and design principles
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 values
- Growth oriented: We invest in people and growth as the company grows
- Humility: Everyone has a lot to give and a lot to learn. Egos are not allowed
- Customer focused: We love our customers. We make decisions by focusing relentlessly on them - and accept if this means changing our ideas. Customer success is our success
- Intellectual honesty: We believe in creating an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledging when we are wrong
- Hack to success: We move fast and take big swings. We always aim for a solution that addresses 80% of the problem and 20% of the time. We make educated bets, launch MVPs, and iterate
- Having fun: Be unapologetically you! We love our game-nights, ping pong tournaments, bufo emojis, and cow jokes (the CEO knows over 100 of them and TechCrunch made fun of him for it)
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
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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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