Software Engineer

About Mintive

Mintive helps companies put agents to work safely, building the infrastructure that makes a company's work runnable by them. Our first product is an MCP gateway providing governed access to company data and tools for agents. We are building the rest of the agent stack: connectors, monitoring, sandboxing, long-running agents, and memory, with the goal of becoming a company's operating system. We work in person in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are AI-native, with agents handling sales, marketing, deal ops, and engineering.

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 extends to UI and connector fixes. Your primary working environment includes Claude and Codex, using agents to accelerate development. Your role involves shaping problems, making architecture, product, and UX calls, hardening enterprise paths, designing connectors, protecting security-sensitive surfaces, and identifying errors in generated code. Roles are blurred, and we ship within hours. You will learn directly from founders and customers. We hire across levels, valuing 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.
• Build UI when needed.
• Fix connectors during security reviews.
• Shape problems, make architecture, product, and UX calls.
• Harden enterprise paths.
• Design connectors.
• Protect security-sensitive surfaces.
• Catch generated code that is quietly wrong.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• TypeScript
• Python
• CockroachDB
• Claude
• Codex
• Builders with a track record of shipping to real users.
• Strong fundamentals and fast learners.
• Focus on product value and customer needs over technical purity.
• Serious approach to infrastructure, considering blast radius, trust boundaries, and impact of code.
• Ability to read unfamiliar code, reason from first principles, and explain tradeoffs.
• Comfort across the stack or ability to pick up new languages, protocols, and domains quickly.
• Excitement to build with agents and understand their capabilities and limitations.
• Daily AI building experience with a desire for low-process environments.

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.
• Building and deploying agents on the same platform we sell.
• Direct access to founders, customer context, and product direction, with mentorship.
• Health benefits, with a team that prioritizes family and health.