Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Mintlify — Tracked from its ashby job board
About the role
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.
WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON HERE
- Serving as the dedicated technical owner for one or more of our largest enterprise customers after the contract has been signed
- Shipping code, reliable software, and systems that carry production traffic from day one
- Pioneering the patterns for deploying Mintlify inside organizations with 100,000+ employees
- Scoping ambiguous customer asks into shippable plans, and saying no when the ask would fork the product
- Designing and deliver self-hosted and VPC deployments, SSO (SAML/OIDC), and least-privilege access architectures
- Building enterprise-specific integrations with customer systems as they exist today, finding the least invasive path rather than demanding a rebuild
- Debugging production issues across the full stack and own them to resolution
- Productizing the patterns you see across deployments: self-hosting packages, runbooks, integration templates
- Feeding field knowledge back into the core product so we never solve the same problem twice
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE
- 5+ years of software engineering experience with real production ownership (you've been paged, you've done the postmortem), focused on backend work
- Direct customer-facing experience: you've sat across from a customer, explained a technical limitation, and kept their trust
- Comfort with enterprise deployment realities: cloud infrastructure, networking, SSO, compliance-conscious environments
- Strong written and verbal communication: you can brief an executive and pair with their platform team in the same afternoon
- Bonus points: Previous founding experience. Experience in an FDE, solutions architecture, or professional services motion.
WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN OUR ENTERPRISE SOLUTIONS TEAM
The Enterprise Solutions team is new and this is a founding seat. We operate as a mini-startup inside each large enterprise deployment with full ownership and direct contact with the customer. You'll define how Mintlify builds enterprise-ready products and prove out the motion for serving the largest organizations in the world, with a direct and measurable line from your work to revenue.
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)
What the index says about this role
- First seen by JobLarper — Aug 2, 2026, 6 days ago. Older postings collect hundreds of applicants — a tailored résumé matters more the longer a role has been live.
- What Solutions Architect roles ask for — across 1,615 indexed openings: Python (46%), REST/APIs (42%), AI/LLM (36%), Cloud (31%), ML (29%).
- Mintlify is hiring actively — 6 open roles indexed.
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