# Senior Product Engineer - Company: [Mintlify]() - Location: San Francisco - Team: Engineering - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $190K – $265K - Posted: September 10, 2026 ## Job description # **Why Mintlify?** We're on a mission to empower builders. * **Massive reach:** Our docs platform serves 100 million+ developers every year and powers documentation for 20,000+ companies, including Anthropic, Microsoft, PayPal, Spotify, Coinbase, X, and over 20% of the last YC batch. * **Small team, huge impact:** We recently passed 65 employees and raised a $45 million Series B led by A16Z and Salesforce Ventures. Each new hire has a huge impact on shaping the company's trajectory. * **Culture of** [**slope over y-intercept**](https://mattrickard.com/hire-slope-not-intercept)**:** We value learning velocity, grit, and unapologetically unique personalities. We grew in value faster than headcount and we’re looking to align the two quickly. We’re looking for product-minded builders to create essential, customer-facing features. You should have a notable technical "spike," whether that’s crafting sophisticated React interfaces or architecting robust backend infrastructure. As a Product Engineer, you’ll build polished experiences that solve real customer problems. You’ll collaborate across design and engineering, contribute to product and technical decisions, and take features from development through launch. # **What you'll work on here** * **Building the full lifecycle:** Partnering with design and engineering to architect and ship customer-facing functionality from the ground up * **Solving complex technical challenges:** You’ll tackle difficult problems, from optimizing virtualized rendering to architecting reliable content management system * **Driving user experience:** Contributing to a frictionless UX, handling the last-mile refinements that transform working code into a great product * **Performance and scale:** Enhancing application speed through profiling and build scalable solutions that evolve with our growing user base * Shaping product direction and engineering approaches across the stack # **What you bring to the table** * 4+ years of software development experience * **A technical “spike”:** You have strong experience in either: + **Frontend:** React, Next.js, and TypeScript, including component architecture, state management, and rendering performance + **Backend:** Systems design, API architecture, and database optimization * You have strong product intuition and care about the "why" as much as the "how" when building user-facing software * You are adaptable and willing to jump into new territory across the stack to ship a feature * You appreciate a high degree of ownership and thrive when defining solutions rather than following a spec * You’re eager to talk directly with customers and use those insights to shape what we build # **Why you should join our engineering team** * You’ll solve technically ambitious product problems alongside a team that values craft, speed, and thoughtful execution. Here’s a taste of what the team has built: + [**How we built a virtual filesystem for our Assistant**](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/how-we-built-a-virtual-filesystem-for-our-assistant) + [**Introducing the collaborative editor built for teams and agents**](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/editor) + [**Docs URL Benchmark: Markdown & llms.txt > HTML**](https://www.mintlify.com/blog/llms-txt-agent-benchmark) * Engineers here are product builders with high agency; you'll drive change and have a voice in strategic decisions * You’ll have plenty of heads-down builder time on a small-but-mighty team where the best ideas win * We’ll find the intersection between what excites you and business priorities. You’ll own projects, ship, and see immediate impact # **Company Benefits:** * Competitive compensation and equity * 20 days paid time off every year * 401k or RRSP * $420/month wellness stipend * 100% coverage for Health, dental, vision * Free Ubers to and from work * Free lunch and dinners * Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii) ## Apply [Apply on Mintlify]() Canonical job page: