Backend Engineer, Mintlify
$140-200k
+ Equity + Bonus
Documentation platform
Job no longer available
Documentation platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$140-200k
+ Equity + Bonus
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower millions of developers worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- You're all about finding the intersection between what excites you and business priorities, and you're excited for your role to evolve accordingly
- You crave a mix of collaborative and heads-down builder time, and are excited to contribute to a small-but-mighty team
- You're looking for an environment where the best ideas win and acknowledge when you're wrong
- 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
- Bonus points: Previously founded a startup. Extra bonus for a dev-tools startup
What the job involves
- Backend software engineering to build and scale our core product infrastructure
- Building the core product, from APIs to agentic pipelines
- Maintaining and improving performance, reliability, and scalability of backend systems
- Collaborating with product and design to build customer-facing functionality
- Operating and owning backend systems in production
Application process
- Culture interview (20-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 (40-min live w/ one of our engineers)
- You'll work through a set of debugging problems so we can learn how you reason
- Founder interview (45-min)
- 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 is further innovating its platform by personalising content and enhancing AI capabilities, positioning itself to meet the evolving needs of software documentation and support in the tech industry.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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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