Software Engineer

About the Role

Mintive is building the infrastructure that makes a company's work runnable by agents. We are an AI-native company, utilizing Claude and Codex daily and operating with more agents than employees. Our first product is an MCP gateway that provides governed access to company data and tools for agents. We are expanding to build the rest of the agent stack, aiming to become the system a company's work runs on. This role involves working in person in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Key Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end, from conception to production, across gateway infrastructure, enterprise deployments, and agentic systems.
• Work leans backend and infra, but encompasses full-stack development when product needs arise.
• Utilize Claude and Codex as primary working environments.
• Use a fleet of agents to increase productivity.
• Shape problems, make architecture, product, and UX calls.
• Harden enterprise paths.
• Design connectors.
• Protect security-sensitive surfaces.
• Identify and correct generated code that is "quietly wrong."
• Ship within hours.
• Learn directly from founders and customers.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• You are a builder with a track record of shipping to real users.
• You ship and iterate without waiting for specs or approvals.
• You have strong fundamentals and learn fast.
• You prioritize product value and customer needs over technical purity.
• You take infra seriously, considering blast radius and trust boundaries.
• You can read unfamiliar code, reason from first principles, and explain tradeoffs.
• Comfortable across the stack: TypeScript, Python, CockroachDB.
• Ability to pick up new languages, protocols, and domains quickly.
• Excited to build with agents and understand their capabilities and limitations.
• You already build with AI daily and desire freedom from heavy process.

Nice to Have

• Developer-facing products, protocol or gateway work, or infrastructure at scale.
• Background in security, identity, or permission systems.
• Contributions to open source, MCP servers, or agentic frameworks.
• Design sensibility.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
• Unusual scope and ownership of features shipping to enterprise customers.
• Opportunity to build and deploy agents on the same platform we sell.
• Direct access to founders, customer context, and product direction.
• Mentorship as you grow.
• Health benefits.