Software Engineer

About Mintive

Mintive helps companies put agents to work safely by building infrastructure that makes a company's own work runnable by them. Our first product is an MCP gateway providing governed access to company data and tools, controlling what agents can reach, what they did, and why. We are building the rest of the agent stack, aiming to become the system a company's work runs on. We work in person in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a flat structure and latitude over work. We are AI-native, using Claude and Codex daily, with more agents than employees. Since launching in February 2026, we have acquired 50+ paying customers, including Coursera, Arlo, and Braze, backed by investors and founders from top institutions and companies.

The Job

You will own features end-to-end, from conception to production, across gateway infrastructure, enterprise deployments, and agentic systems. The work leans backend and infra, but is not limited to it. You will use Claude and Codex as your primary working environment, leveraging agents to increase speed. Your core role involves making architectural, product, and UX decisions, hardening enterprise paths, designing connectors, protecting security-sensitive surfaces, and identifying errors in generated code. Roles are blurred, and we ship within hours, offering direct learning from founders and customers. We hire across levels, matching compensation to experience, with emphasis on judgment, range, and shipping speed.

Key Responsibilities

• Own features end-to-end, from conception to production.
• Work across gateway infrastructure, enterprise deployments, and agentic systems.
• Shape problems, make architecture, product, and UX calls.
• Harden enterprise paths and design connectors.
• Protect security-sensitive surfaces.
• Catch errors in generated code.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• TypeScript
• Python
• CockroachDB
• Claude
• Codex
• Agents
• Familiarity with concepts like blast radius, trust boundaries.

Qualifications

• A builder with a track record of shipping to real users (product, internal tool, open-source, or side project).
• Ability to ship and iterate without waiting for specs or approvals.
• Strong fundamentals and fast learning ability.
• Focus on product value and customer needs over technical purity.
• Seriousness about infra, considering blast radius, trust boundaries, and code impact.
• Ability to read unfamiliar code, reason from first principles, and explain tradeoffs.
• Comfortable across the stack or able to pick up new languages, protocols, and domains quickly.
• Excitement to build with agents and learn their capabilities and limitations.
• Current daily AI building experience and desire for minimal 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.
• Experience building and deploying agents on our platform.
• Direct access to founders, customer context, and product direction, with mentorship.
• Health benefits, prioritizing family and health.