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Senior Engineering Manager, Code Generation

MongoDB
California; Oregon; Washington, USAfull_timePosted 22 Jun 2026

About the role

<p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>This role will be based in North America west coast, and offers a hybrid working model.&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong>The ideal candidate for this role will have</strong></h3> <ul> <li>10+ years of software development and operations experience, with a focus on building platforms and distributable software infrastructure</li> <li>2+ years of experience leading, coaching, and mentoring a team of software engineers to achieve high-impact results</li> <li>Extensive product experience in building enterprise-grade analytics systems for data streaming or data tooling</li> <li>Extensive 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)</li> <li>Having experience in using GenAI in building complex large-scale systems, and knowing what GenAI is best suited to do, is a plus</li> <li>Curiosity, a positive attitude, and a drive to continue learning</li> <li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills</li> <li>Excellent time and project management skills including the ability to make realistic assessments of project cost and complexity</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Position Expectations</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Provide technical leadership and mentorship to a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, quality, and continuous improvement</li> <li>Drive the architectural vision and long-term technical roadmap for the Code Gen product suite, ensuring it is scalable, reliable, and performant</li> <li>Collaborate closely with Product Managers and other stakeholders to define product features and transla

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