MongoDB is hiring a
Lead Engineer

Summary

Join MongoDB's Server Programmability Team as a Senior Manager to lead and manage a team of ~7 individual contributors, focusing on ensuring their success, aiding career growth, and facilitating technical work. The role involves fostering a positive team culture, balancing time between coding, designing, mentorship, and leadership, using agile practices to deliver features, maintaining expertise in software technologies, developing a roadmap for high-impact improvements, measuring impact, and effectively managing project rollouts.

Requirements

• Experience managing teams building low-level libraries and components within a larger codebase
• Experience managing a team responsible for increasing the velocity of fellow engineers is equally valuable

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of ~7 individual contributors
• Ensure their success, aid career growth, and facilitate technical work
• Foster a positive and effective team culture
• Balance time between coding, designing, mentorship, and leading your team
• Use agile practices to deliver features on a predictable schedule
• Maintain expertise on state of the art software technologies and best practices
• Develop a roadmap of high-impact improvements to the programming model of the MongoDB Server
• Measure the impact of the programmability improvements we make to iterate on the team's roadmap
• Effectively manage the roll out and success of projects built by the SP team
• Identify, design, implement, test, and support new components that make development easier within a large feature-rich C++ codebase
• Assist fellow engineers in, and be an advocate for, writing secure and robust industrial-strength software

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• 401(k) plan
• Mental health counseling
• Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
• Health benefits offerings