Lead, Engineering

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2 Locations
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137K-270K Annually
Senior level
Big Data • Cloud • Software • Database
MongoDB empowers innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data.
The Role
The Lead Engineer manages a software development team, contributes to coding, oversees project delivery, and fosters career growth.
Summary Generated by Built In

We have tons of interesting problems to solve with direct impact on users for transactional, time-series, and analytical workloads. As we grow, we need engineering managers to help us structure the organization, improve technical processes, provide career mentorship, guide the product roadmap, and manage projects.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City for our hybrid working model, or US and Canada for our remote working model.

Candidate Profile
  • Experience building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality
  • Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
  • Proficient in C++ or a similar programming language
  • Experience managing small engineering teams
  • Passionate about running teams, mentorship, and coaching
Position Expectations
  • Manage a team of software engineers, responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work
  • Makes coding contributions to the team’s projects as needed
  • Provides feedback on the architecture of the system and the design of new features
  • Ensures that the team is running smoothly by helping to eliminate technical barriers, coordinating with other teams regarding dependencies, and focusing on the overall happiness of the team
  • Contributes to planning for organizational growth, including allocation of engineering resources, future hiring plans, and assignment of projects
  • Sets team culture by example
  • Estimates the delivery timeline for projects, and communicates well with upper management regarding project execution
Success Measures
  • In three months
    • You meet regularly with all of your team members and are starting to learn their interests, strengths, and areas for development
    • You’ll have contributed to a project slated for the next major version of the MongoDB server, as well as fixed a few bugs in a minor version of our latest stable release series
  • In six months
    • You participate in code and design reviews for new features
    • You have identified any skillset gaps in team execution and are helping to fill them
    • You have worked with each team member to develop a growth plan tailored to their career goals
  • In twelve months
    • You’re team has established a track record of delivering new features
    • You have a clear understanding of the longer term roadmap and have integrated a plan to accomplish it with your team at MongoDB
    • You have established your role as a leader in the organization such that team members naturally go to you for guidance
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 nearly 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, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Req. ID: 4263316638

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, 401(k) plan, mental health counseling, access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage, and health benefits offerings. Please note, the base salary range listed below and the benefits in this paragraph are only applicable to U.S.-based candidates.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in the U.S. is:
$137,000$270,000 USD

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
5,550 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

The database market is big. How big? Well, according to IDC, it’ll reach $153 billion by 2027. And MongoDB is at the forefront of that innovation with thousands of customers across the globe. We empower developers and businesses to build and deploy the applications they want, wherever they want.

Why Work With Us

We are ambitious. We are passionate about creativity. And we believe the best paths are the ones we have yet to forge.

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MongoDB provides multiple working model options for our employees, including the flexibility to work from home to opportunities for collaboration and social interaction in a MongoDB office.

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