Lead Engineer

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

The Query Team is responsible for MongoDB’s unique query system. We manage the MongoDB Query Language and the lifecycle of each query, from parsing user requests to generating, optimizing and executing query plans for lightning-fast data retrieval. We are responsible for the aggregation framework, which allows arbitrary transformation of query results before they are passed back to the client; we build MongoDB’s "change stream" event notification system; we write the code that targets and merges distributed queries across a MongoDB sharded cluster.

Our global team is growing fast, and we are looking for leaders as part of this expansion. The European Query team is headquartered in Dublin, with engineers and leads based in countries across the continent. We support office-based as well as remote work, and align projects with convenient work hours for each time-zone.

We have a never ending list of interesting technical challenges to solve with direct impact on millions of users. 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.

If this sounds like you, then please don’t hesitate to apply - we’d love to have you on board!

This role can be based out of our Dublin office or remotely in the EMEA region where we have an established entity.

Candidate Profile

• 3+ years of experience managing teams of software engineers. This includes people-management responsibilities such as hiring, performance and growth management, compensation planning, and career development
• 8+ years of experience building production-level code with a large user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality. Experience in data management systems, particularly query processing, is ideal
• Degree in Computer Science or similar field, or equivalent practical experience, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms, and software design/architecture
• Passionate about running teams, mentorship, and coaching

Position Expectations

• Manage a team of 3-6 individual contributors, responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work
• Makes coding contributions to the team’s projects as needed
• Proficient in C++ or a similar programming language
• 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 organisational 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 will have learned about the team’s roadmap as well as developed relationships with your team and leaders on other teams
• In six months, your team will be capable of running projects on its own. You will be working with product management and senior engineers to refine the team roadmap
• In twelve months, your team has delivered key features for a major release on schedule

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!

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MongoDB is an equal opportunities employer