Lead Engineer, Catalog & Routing at MongoDB
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Position Expectations
Manage a small team of individual contributors, responsible for ensuring their success, aiding their career growth, and facilitating their technical work
Foster a positive and effective team culture
Balance your time between coding, designing, mentorship, and leading your team
Use agile practices to deliver features on a predictable schedule
Maintain expertise on the state of the art in distributed systems
Aid Product Management in navigating difficult tradeoffs in prioritization
Collaborate with other server engineers, client drivers, cloud services, support, consulting, training, and marketing teams to coordinate changes
Identify, design, implement, test, and support new features related to horizontal scaling, data consistency, and disaster recovery, in a large feature‑rich C++ codebase
Assist fellow engineers in, and be an advocate for, writing scalable and well‑reasoned industrial‑strength software
Success Measures
In three months
Meet with all team members and begin learning their interests, strengths, and areas for development
Contribute to a project slated for the next major version of the MongoDB server and fix a few bugs in a minor version of our latest stable release series
In six months
Conduct code reviews and review designs for new features
Develop growth plans tailored to each team member’s career goals
In twelve months
Lead the development of a new major feature
Understand the longer‑term roadmap and integrate a plan to accomplish it with your team
Establish your role as a leader in the organization, becoming a natural guide for teammates
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. MongoDB’s 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 is an equal opportunities employer.
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