Design Engineer
Design Engineer needed to craft beautiful, responsive interfaces while maintaining excellent code quality and performance.
Mintlify empowers builders worldwide.
We're on a mission to empower builders. Our founders aimed to create a platform that accelerates the ability to solve problems. Our customers include X, Anthropic, Cursor, Perplexity, Scale AI, alongside 6000+ other companies.
We raised our Series A in Summer of 2024 - we're reaching 30m+ developers every year. And we’re proud of our history, being one of the most popular products used by YC companies.
We grew in value faster than headcount and we’re looking to align the two in the coming year.
Who is an employee at Mintlify?
People that are excited to grow as humans alongside us as a company.
We always hire for slope over y-intercept. We believe in high learning velocity and grit.
People who think beyond their work scope.
“Where else can I be impactful?” “Oh, I know how to do that! How can I help?”
Not uncommon to hear in our office.
People who appreciate diversity. Our company collectively speaks 12 languages. We’re full of introverted extroverts.
Characters are welcome here - be unapologetically you!
Who is an engineer at Mintlify?
Engineers at Mintlify appreciate a high degree of ownership, are passionate about a tasteful user experience and come to work ready to contribute to a small-but-mighty team.
Small Team. Big Dreams.
You’ll have daily stand ups and plenty of heads down builder time. We believe in the power of strong teams to drive change - and have created an environment where the best ideas win and we can acknowledge when we’re wrong.
Joining the team
We’ll learn where your strengths lie and put you in position. You’ll jump into new territory and learn something new. You’ll own projects and features. You’ll ship.
Move Fast. Big Swings.
About this role
Our ideal candidate bridges the gap between design and development: crafting beautiful, responsive interfaces while maintaining excellent code quality and performance.
Requirements:
You've built and deployed Next.js applications in production environments
You've got a good looking portfolio. No broken links!
You excel at creating component-based design systems
Strong eye for design, typography, spacing, and visual hierarchy
Nice to have:
Familiarity with UI/UX design tools (Figma, Adobe XD)
Experience with testing frameworks (Jest, React Testing Library)
Company Benefits:
Competitive compensation and equity | Flexible work culture
20 days paid time off every year | Health, dental, vision
401k or RRSP | Free lunch and dinners
$420/mo. wellness stipend | Annual team offsite
Our (engineering) interview process:
Culture interview (30-min video call)
- We’re looking to learn about you, your skills and experience and your motivation to join our team.
Technical interview (take-home, 1 week to complete, 2-3 hours total depending on test)
- No LeetCode! Real-world problem solving in our coding environment. We try and make it fun.
Debugging interview (1-hour live w/ one of our engineers)
- 4 bugs. 1 hour. Are you up to the test?
Founder interview (1-hour)
- Meet with Han or Hahnbee! AMA at the end.
On-Site (half-day)
- Have lunch with us! Play some ping pong! We’ll learn about each other here.
Offer
- cue confetti! Dandelion Chocolate on us come Week 1!