# Senior Backend Engineer

**Company:** [Mintlify](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mintlify)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Backend Engineering
**Salary:** $190k – $265k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** api architecture, System Design, Databases, production systems, content processing, ai retrieval, search, Caching, queues, Observability
**Posted:** 2026-08-14

> Builds APIs, content pipelines, and AI infrastructure powering documentation products and thousands of customer sites. The role requires 4+ years of software development experience, strong systems and production expertise, product judgment, and a high degree of 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.
- Contribute to product direction, technical decisions, and engineering approaches across the stack.
- Collaborate across design and engineering, take features from development through launch, and engage directly with customers.

## Requirements
- 4+ years of software development experience.
- Strong experience with systems design, API architecture, databases, and production systems.
- Strong product intuition and attention to both business rationale and implementation.
- Adaptability and willingness to work beyond backend engineering when needed.
- Ability to take ownership and define solutions independently.
- Comfort talking directly with customers and using their insights to shape products.

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

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