{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"3e61ddae5d7a51cbf3d5ee7b","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3e61ddae5d7a51cbf3d5ee7b","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/3e61ddae5d7a51cbf3d5ee7b","title":"Senior Lead Engineer, Code Generation","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.\r\nWe 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.\r\nThis role will be based in North America west coast, and offers a hybrid working model.\r\nThe ideal candidate for this role will have 10+ years of software development and operations experience, with a focus on building platforms and distributable software infrastructure\r\n2+ years of experience leading, coaching, and mentoring a team of software engineers to achieve high-impact results\r\nExtensive product experience in building enterprise-grade analytics systems for data streaming or data tooling\r\nExtensive experience with relational and document data modeling and hands-on experience with at least one SQL database (Postgres, MySQL, etc) and at least one document database (e.g. MongoDB)\r\nHaving experience in using GenAI in building complex large-scale systems, and knowing what GenAI is best suited to do, is a plus\r\nCuriosity, a positive attitude, and a drive to continue learning\r\nExcellent verbal and written communication skills\r\nExcellent time and project management skills including the ability to make realistic assessments of project cost and complexity\r\nPosition Expectations Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement\r\nDrive the architectural vision and long-term technical roadmap for the Code Gen product suite, ensuring it is scalable, reliable, and performant\r\nCollaborate closely with Product Managers and other stakeholders to define product features and translate business requirements into robust technical designs\r\nLead the design and implementation of complex, mission-critical components of AMP's code transformation toolset\r\nChampion and enforce engineering best practices through design reviews, code reviews, and by setting a high standard for quality and operational excellence\r\nAct as a hands-on leader, guiding the team through complex technical challenges and contributing to the codebase where necessary\r\nSuccess Measures Within the first three months, you will have:\r\nFully ramped up on our architecture, business domain, and team processes\r\nEstablish yourself as the technical leader within the team, actively driving technical discussions, design reviews, and planning for the product roadmap\r\nBegin mentoring team members and building strong collaborative relationships with your product counterparts\r\nWithin six months, you will have:\r\nSuccessfully led the team to deliver a major feature or product release\r\nMade significant contributions to the architectural roadmap and started influencing the technical direction of adjacent teams\r\nEstablished a clear rhythm of execution and a high-performing culture within your team\r\nWithin 12 months, you will have:\r\nBecome recognized as the go-to technical expert for the code transformation domain at MongoDB\r\nDelivered large-scale features across the entire tech stack that have a measurable impact on our customers and business\r\nPlayed a crucial role in recruiting, hiring, and growing the engineering team\r\nAbout 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.\r\nWith 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.\r\nOur 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.\r\nMongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. 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