# Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Mintlify](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mintlify)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $130k – $200k/yr
**Skills:** api architecture, System Design, Databases, Caching, queues, Observability, content processing, search, information retrieval, AI Infrastructure
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> Build backend APIs, content pipelines, and AI retrieval infrastructure powering Mintlify’s documentation products. The role requires strong systems design, API, database, and production experience, along with product intuition and high ownership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and ship APIs and services for the editor, dashboard, and customer documentation sites.
- Improve content ingestion, validation, transformation, and publishing infrastructure for thousands of customer repositories.
- Build search, retrieval, and agent infrastructure for AI products.
- Improve caching, queues, databases, and observability for performance and reliability at scale.
- Shape product direction and engineering approaches across the stack.
- Collaborate with design and engineering, contribute to product and technical decisions, and take features from development through launch.
- Talk directly with customers and use their insights to shape products.

## Requirements
- Strong experience with systems design, API architecture, databases, and production systems.
- Strong product intuition and attention to both product rationale and implementation.
- Adaptability and willingness to work beyond backend systems when needed to ship features.
- Comfort with high ownership and defining solutions rather than following a fixed specification.

## Benefits and Compensation
- Competitive compensation and equity.
- 20 days of paid time off annually.
- 401(k) or RRSP.
- $420/month wellness stipend.
- 100% coverage for health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Free rides to and from work.
- Free lunch and dinner.
- Annual team offsite.

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