
Software Development · 85 people
Head of Engineering
Posted 14 Oct
What’s this role about? Partner with founders to shape company strategy and translate vision into engineering priorities. Build and scale a world-class engineering organization while overseeing execution and technical infrastructure.
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Company
About Mintlify Knowledge infrastructure for AI. Mintlify powers docs for 20,000+ companies, reaching 100M+ developers a year. When humans or agents need to understand your product, they start with your docs. We make sure they find the right answers. We're hiring in SF at mintlify.com/careers.
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Responsibilities
- Partner directly with the founders. We are looking for a strategic thought partner who can challenge thinking, help shape company and product strategy, translate that vision into engineering priorities, and take real ownership of the decisions required to scale the business.
- Build a world class engineering organization. Demand is outpacing Mintlify’s current engineering capacity, making talent and execution one of the biggest constraints on growth. Scale the team, attract exceptional talent, and build the organization needed to capitalize on the demand already in front of the company.
- Turn product innovation into Mintlify’s next phase of growth. Help develop and launch major new product lines as the company expands beyond its core documentation platform, enabling multiple product bets to run in parallel without sacrificing speed, quality, or reliability.
- Own engineering execution and the technical foundation. Set priorities across product, platform, and infrastructure, improve engineering velocity and reliability, and ensure the organization can support Mintlify’s rapidly growing scale and enterprise customer base.
Qualification
- Proven scaling experience. Has scaled an engineering organization from roughly 10 to 50 engineers at an early stage company and understands the challenges that come with rapid growth.
- Deep technical credibility. A hands on engineering leader with strong experience across modern backend systems, cloud infrastructure, platform architecture, and systems at scale.
- An exceptional talent builder. Has a track record of identifying, recruiting, developing, and retaining high caliber engineers and views recruiting as a core part of the job.
- Strong product and business judgment. Has owned a product line end to end and understands how engineering decisions connect to customer needs, product outcomes, and company growth.
- A first principles, high agency leader. Low ego, comfortable with ambiguity, willing to give direct feedback, and thoughtful about designing the right processes and operating rhythms for the company’s current stage rather than importing a playbook from somewhere else.
Benefits
- 20 days paid time off every year
- monthly wellness stipend
- 100% employee coverage for Health, Dental, Vision
- Commute stipend to help get you to and from work
- Free lunch and dinners
- Annual team offsite (previously went to Alaska, Hawaii, Jackson Hole)
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