Lead Developer - Professional Services

The worldwide data management software market is massive (According to IDC, the worldwide database software market, which it refers to as the database management systems software market, was forecasted to be approximately $82 billion in 2023 growing to approximately $137 billion in 2027. This represents a 14% compound annual growth rate). At MongoDB we are transforming industries and empowering developers to build amazing apps that people use every day. We are the leading developer data platform and the first database provider to IPO in over 20 years. Join our team and be at the forefront of innovation and creativity.

MongoDB Professional Services (PS) works with customers of all shapes and sizes, in all verticals, from tier-1 banks to small web startups, on a variety of exciting use cases. This role solves technically sophisticated problems, gains incredible cross-stack experience, works with top-notch people in the business, networks with industry leaders, and sees new places – all in a day’s work!

MongoDB PS exists to support the development of our customers’ vision, accelerate customers’ time to value, and drive a multitude of customer adoption scenarios – from building new solutions to modernizing legacy.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in New York City for our hybrid working model. We're also open to remote candidates in eastern and central time zones.

Position Expectations

• Stay at the forefront of the industry by staying abreast of the latest GenAI advancements and leveraging cutting-edge developments to fulfill migration projects.
• Innovate new development processes, technologies, and project approaches as they evolve, especially from emerging GenAI capabilities.
• Participates as the lead software developer on small Agile teams, delivering software-based solutions for migrating and modernizing customer legacy applications to MongoDB.
• Expand migration playbooks where applicable and invigorate the team to be prepared to innovate, filling in gaps with creative solutions to solve challenges on each specific project, using experience to prioritise the best ideas.
• Actively drive the technical part of sprint grooming, planning, and showcases alongside the project manager, providing ideas, suggestions and guidance to the rest of the team.
• Provide technical direction to the team and partner with the project manager on projects to drive them to a successful conclusion. This includes managing technical challenges and risks and identifying mitigation strategies.
• Study the current state of each legacy application, the desired target state outlined by the customer, and drive the technical planning, design and solution to get from source state to target state on each project. 
• Be prepared to change direction on projects, if customer or account team priorities change, and act in a way that brings the rest of the team with you on this direction change.
• Face-off to lead technical personnel on the customer side to resolve issues and identify solutions.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience working as a software developer, with 3+ years of experience as a technical lead
• Strong proficiency in Java
• Some experience and knowledge of Python or JavaScrip/Node.js
• Strong experience in building applications that interact with relational databases using SQL
• Some experience of Enterprise Java (J2EE / JavaEE / Spring) application architectures
• History of delivering high-cadence modern applications with applied Agile methodologies, test-first development approaches, adopting CI/CD pipelines and using Git version control
• Proven experience in leading software/application development projects
• Able to provide technical direction and authority to the whole delivery team (to developers, the project manager and other customer and executive stakeholders)
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills when collaborating with team members and external stakeholders within the wider MongoDB organization and the customer’s organization
• Strong strategic thinking capabilities to understand and align technical work with business goals
• Ability to travel and work on customer sites for a number of continuous weeks

Nice-to-have skills

• Working knowledge of microservices architectures and Domain-Driven Design approaches
• Some experience and knowledge of ORMs like Hibernate or JPA

   Extra bonus skills (if missing, we will provide rapid onboarding enablement on these):

• Some experience in nascent GenAI technologies and approaches, such as using OpenAI API with GPT LLMs
• Practical experience of using MongoDB

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