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Senior Lead Engineer, Code Generation

MongoDB ·
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📍 CA 🌐 Remote/hybrid 🛠 AI tools welcome at work Lead 10+ yrs
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TL;DR

Senior Lead Engineer at MongoDB building code generation tools for legacy application modernization using GenAI. Lead a team developing complex product suite for transforming applications to microservices architectures on MongoDB.

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Job description

The Application Modernization Platform (AMP) team is tackling one of the industry's most critical challenges: leveraging Generative AI to transform rigid, legacy applications into modern, microservices-based architectures powered by MongoDB. A core difficulty in legacy code transformation is guaranteeing the equivalence of the new application's business logic, ensuring it operates smoothly and efficiently with the new MongoDB data ecosystems in a reliable and scalable manner. The success of this mission heavily relies on the essential tools developed by the CodeGen team.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Lead Software Engineer with a strong background in database ecosystem, reshaping complex large-scale services and team leadership. You will lead a talented team building a complex product suite using GenAI capabilities. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who can drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with product management to deliver a product that solves our customers' most challenging application transformation problems.

This role will be based in North America west coast, and offers a hybrid working model. 

The ideal candidate for this role will have

Position Expectations

Success Measures

Within the first three months, you will have:

Within six months, you will have:

Within 12 months, you will have:

About MongoDB

MongoDB is built for change, empowering our customers and our people to innovate at the speed of the market. We have redefined the database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform, the most widely available, globally distributed database on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and over 60,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.

Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB. 

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer.

REQ ID: 1273362479

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role is posted below. Compensation at the time of offer is unique to each candidate and based on a variety of factors such as skill set, experience, qualifications, and work location. Salary is one part of MongoDB’s total compensation and benefits package. Other benefits for eligible employees may include: equity, participation in the employee stock purchase program, flexible paid time off, 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) with employer match, mental health counseling, backup child and elder care, and health, dental, and vision benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to candidates based in Canada.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in Canada is:
$178,000$248,000 CAD
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