Full-Time

Senior Enterprise Solutions Engineer

Pre Sales

Posted on 10/31/2025

Mintlify

Mintlify

51-200 employees

Platform for building interactive public docs

Compensation Overview

$250k - $325k/yr

+ Equity

Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship

San Francisco, CA, USA

In Person

Category
Sales & Solution Engineering (1)
Required Skills
JavaScript
React.js
Node.js
REST APIs
HTML/CSS
Requirements
  • Strong full-stack development experience (React, Node.js, APIs, databases)
  • Proficiency in web technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, modern frameworks
  • Ability to rapidly build functional prototypes and MVPs
  • Comfortable reading and understanding codebases to assess integration complexity
  • 1-2+ years of software engineering experience in product or customer-facing roles
  • Track record working directly with customers on technical implementations
  • Experience scoping technical work and creating specifications for engineering teams
  • Background in fast-moving startup environments with high autonomy
Responsibilities
  • Partner with Account Executives on complex enterprise and mid-market deals from discovery through close
  • Lead deep technical discovery to understand customer documentation workflows, integrations, and success criteria
  • Design and build custom demos, prototypes, and proofs-of-concept that directly unblock deals and accelerate decisions
  • Present technical solutions to mixed audiences, from frontline engineers to executive buyers
  • Translate customer requirements into clear technical specifications that engineering can realistically deliver
  • Scope custom work with enough fidelity to inform pricing, timelines, and contract structure
  • Partner with engineering leadership to estimate effort, assess feasibility, and flag risks early. Identify technical debt, integration complexity, or maintenance concerns before deals are signed.
  • Serve as the go-to technical operator for Sales on complex deals
  • Share customer and field insights to influence product roadmap and go-to-market strategy
  • Build internal tools, templates, and processes that make technical selling more repeatable and scalable.
Desired Qualifications
  • Previous SE, sales engineering, or solutions consulting experience
  • Experience with enterprise RFPs, security reviews, or procurement processes
  • Background in developer tools, APIs, or technical products
  • Understanding of SaaS and usage pricing models and contract structures
  • You'd rather ship a working prototype than a slide deck
  • You understand how technical decisions impact deal economics
  • You can run multiple complex deals simultaneously without dropping balls
  • You can translate technical depth into business value for executives and explain business constraints to engineers
  • You move fast and ship iteratively

Mintlify builds a platform for creating and maintaining engaging, public-facing documentation for businesses. It provides an easy-to-use editor, hosting, and an AI-powered chat feature (GPT-4) that answers questions using the client’s APIs, making the docs interactive and capable of converting readers into customers. The editing workflow is integrated into the client’s environment, enabling seamless updates, while built-in analytics show what users view and where they convert, helping identify sales prospects. The platform differentiates itself by tightly integrating API-driven, interactive documentation with a seamless workflow and analytics focus, aimed at driving user engagement and conversions. The company’s goal is to help businesses turn documentation into a customer acquisition and onboarding tool through accessible, engaging content and data-driven insights.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$66.4M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2021

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Raised $45M Series B at $500M valuation led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures.
  • 50% of doc traffic from AI agents positions Mintlify as essential knowledge infrastructure.
  • Serves Anthropic and YC companies with 40% higher conversion rates than alternatives.

What critics are saying

  • ReadMe.io undercuts pricing with better analytics, eroding Mintlify's customer base.
  • OpenAI's ChatGPT Enterprise RAG tools obsolete Mintlify's GPT-4 chat in 6-12 months.
  • Helicone customers migrate to Langfuse post-acquisition, damaging AI credibility.

What makes Mintlify unique

  • Mintlify powers AI-optimized documentation for 20,000 companies reaching 100 million users yearly.
  • Acquired Helicone and Trieve to integrate LLM observability and RAG infrastructure.
  • Launched MCP Server Generator for no-code AI agent connections from docs.

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Benefits

Company Equity

Flexible Work Hours

Paid Vacation

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Wellness Program

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

0%
Intellectia.AI
Apr 15th, 2026
Mintlify raises $45M at $500M valuation for AI-powered software documentation tools

Mintlify has raised $45 million in a Series B round led by a16z and Salesforce Ventures, valuing the company at $500 million. The startup provides AI-powered tools that help businesses generate and maintain software documentation, including FAQs and user guides. Mintlify currently serves approximately 20,000 companies using its AI system for documentation purposes. The funding underscores growing investor interest in AI technologies for software documentation, a sector increasingly reliant on automation to streamline technical writing and maintenance processes.

Forbes
Apr 14th, 2026
Anthropic Uses This Startup’s AI To Answer People’s Questions About Claude Code

It’s just one of 20,000 companies that use Mintlify’s AI system to generate and maintain FAQs and user guides about their software products.

Helicone
Mar 11th, 2026
Helicone is joining Mintlify

After three years and 14.2 trillion tokens, we're excited to share that Helicone has been acquired by Mintlify.

Mintlify
Mar 3rd, 2026
Mintlify acquires open source AI observability platform Helicone

Mintlify has acquired Helicone, an open-source LLM observability platform and AI gateway. Helicone's founders, Justin Torre and Cole Gottdank, are joining Mintlify's San Francisco team to build next-generation AI knowledge infrastructure. Mintlify serves tens of thousands of companies and supports AI queries for millions of users monthly. The acquisition will enhance Mintlify's AI products with improved performance, deeper analytics, integrated routing and multi-provider failover handling. Helicone, which has served 16,000 organisations over three years, will continue operating in maintenance mode with security updates and bug fixes. Mintlify plans to support customers through migration to alternative platforms. The deal reflects Mintlify's vision of building AI systems that autonomously maintain, update and evolve knowledge systems beyond simply answering questions.

Selma Times-Journal
Jul 24th, 2025
Mintlify Acquires Trieve for AI Retrieval

Mintlify has acquired Trieve to enhance its AI-powered knowledge retrieval capabilities. This acquisition supports Mintlify's goal of modernizing product knowledge access, leveraging Trieve's retrieval-augmented generation infrastructure. The integration aims to provide faster, context-rich answers for users. Trieve's team will join Mintlify to further develop infrastructure for efficient documentation solutions.

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