MongoDB Software Engineer Online Archive 

United States, Texas, Austin 

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As a Senior Technical Program Manager, you will partner with key Engineering, Product, and Product Design stakeholders to deliver critical services and features. You will begin with 1-2 key programs, aligned to time-bound goals, to steward to completion.

This role can be based out of our San Francisco and New York City offices or remotely in the United States.

• Experienced in managing technical projects and working with full stack development teams using a variety of project management techniques
• Experienced with 5+ years working in a technical capacity and/or in a project or program management role
• Capable of deep user empathy and adept at balancing product goals and engineering constraints to deliver impactful experiences
• Proficient in grasping the infrastructure of your program domain, and skilled at identifying the technical interfaces between teams
• Able to maintain a strategic view of our software engineering processes even while supporting and optimizing the operations of the team
• Inspired to innovate in areas where automation can replace manual work. The team works primarily with JIRA and Google Docs so programming proficiency with either or both tools is a plus
• Skilled at communicating across a diverse set of engineers and stakeholders
• Hyper-organized and capable of juggling all of the data associated with projects and task-tracking
• Knowledgeable of agile methodologies and experienced with implementing project management best practices
• Driven by an attuned sense of priority and urgency to ship features and achieve the right business outcomes
• Trained in working with project tracking software (e.g. JIRA, Rally, MS Project, Trello)
• Interested in learning everything about MongoDB

• Execute and improve the processes and tools that inform the daily life of engineering teams
• Drive coordination between product development teams and internal stakeholders to prioritize the team's backlog and plan its release roadmap
• Identify risks to the team's delivery, mitigating them where possible
• Own the data around the health of each team's project and ticket backlog
• Know when a project/team requires more hands-on management and know when it is time to operationalize and develop a process framework for the project and/or team(s)
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement by conducting retrospectives to help identify areas of growth and learnings within and across teams
• Recognize patterns in a sea of information and take action accordingly
• Expand knowledge into new domains by consistently working to gain the requisite technical knowledge required to skillfully manage the complexities, dependencies, and risks associated with engineering projects

• Delivery against program goals
• Improvements and automations in team operations, including leveraging best practices from the TPM community

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, related fields or equivalent practical experience
• Demonstrated technical aptitude and strong analytical skills with proven results
• 5+ years industry experience as a program or engineering manager
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt style and delivery for a variety of audiences