MongoDB Lead Developer 

United Kingdom 

17990714

This role will be based remotely in the Great Britain region.

• 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 approaches to projects 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 to fill 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 these to a successful conclusion, including managing technical challenges and risks and how they can be mitigated
• 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

• 7+ years of experience working as a software developer
• 3+ years of experience as a technical lead
• Strong proficiency in Java
• Strong experience in building applications that interact with relational databases using SQL
• Some experience of Enterprise Java (J2EE / JavaEE / Spring) application architectures
• Ability to travel and work on customer sites for a number of continuous weeks
• 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 as well as the project manager and other customer and executive stakeholders)
• Strong written, verbal and presentation skills when collaborating with team members and with 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

• Working knowledge of microservices architectures and Domain-Driven Design approaches
• Some experience and knowledge of Python
• Some experience and knowledge of JavaScript/Node.js
• Some experience and knowledge of ORMs like Hibernate or JPA

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