Senior Backend AI Engineer (San Francisco)

Mintlify empowers builders worldwide.

We're on a mission to empower builders and are looking for self-starters to join our fast-moving founding team. Our customers include some of the fastest-growing AI companies such as X, Anthropic, Cursor, Perplexity, Scale AI, alongside 7000+ other companies.

We raised our Series A last summer backed by a16z and BCV. We're reaching 70m+ developers every year and are proud of our history as one of the most popular products used by YC companies.

Our growth in value has outpaced headcount, and we aim to align the two in the coming year.

Who is an employee at Mintlify?

People who are excited to grow as humans alongside us as a company. We hire for slope over y-intercept, believing in high learning velocity and grit. We value individuals who think beyond their work scope and are eager to help wherever they can. Diversity is appreciated; our team speaks 12 languages, and characters are welcome herebe unapologetically you!

Who is an engineer at Mintlify?

Engineers who value ownership, are passionate about user experience, and are ready to contribute to a small-but-mighty team. This role particularly seeks a software engineer with deep experience in LLM fine-tuning, RAG systems, and AI automations.

Joining the team

We focus on aligning your passions with business priorities, encouraging you to learn new skills, own projects, and ship features.

About the role

This role involves working closely with the founding team and will include:

• Backend and infrastructure engineering to support AI and agentic flows
• RAG/data ingestion pipelines
• Prompt engineering
• Model performance evaluation

Our interview process

Includes a culture interview, technical take-home, debugging session, founder interview, and an on-site technical and behavioral assessment. We aim to understand your skills, motivation, and fit for our team.

Offer

Celebratory confetti and Dandelion Chocolate on your first week!

Company Benefits

Competitive compensation and equity, flexible work culture, 20 days paid time off, health/dental/vision insurance, 401k or RRSP, free lunch/dinners, wellness stipend, and annual team offsite.