Our senior engineers are typically specialists in a particular programming language, but are capable of contributing to projects in other languages as well.
In This Role You Will…
Maintain and build features for the MongoDB Node.js Driver along with its dependencies and native C++ addons (bson, mongodb-client-encryption, @mongodb-js/zstd, kerberos)
Contribute to JavaScript open source client libraries and MongoDB AI/ML integrations and ODMs (e.g., mongoose)
Contribute to the common driver specifications supporting the full range of MongoDB features
Investigate bugs and support requests from commercial customers, open source users, and internal users for the libraries our team maintains
Collaborate closely with peers in our distributed world-wide engineering team
You’re Right For This Role If You…
Have deep knowledge of the JavaScript ecosystem, and an interest in staying up-to-date on ecosystem trends and best practices and incorporating them into your work
Are fascinated by, and have experience working with concurrency, parallelism and distributed systems
Want to participate in Open Source software development and communities
Communicate well, internally and externally, both in writing and face-to-face
Advocate for testing and agile development best practices
Can make pragmatic design tradeoffs while balancing features, maintainability, and delivery time
Enjoy collaborating with and elevate the skills and expertise of those around you
For This Role You Must Have…
Have 4+ years of experience writing high-quality software
Significant experience working with JavaScript/TypeScript
Experience with databases, relational or non-relational
Good written and spoken English communication skills
It Helps If You Have…
Experience contributing to open source projects
Experience building production applications with mongoose and/or the Node.js driver itself
Experience using or contributing to open source AI frameworks/integrations such as LangChain or n8n
Experience working with MongoDB and the document model
A diversity of experience writing tests for the software you developed (unit, integration, end to end, performance, etc)
A working knowledge of C++
Success Measures
Within one month, you will understand the high-level architecture of the driver and how MongoDB works, and will have completed a few small bug fixes and/or feature tickets
Within three months, you will be contributing effectively day-to-day, fixing bugs, implementing planned features, and thoroughly reviewing your colleagues’ pull requests
Within six months, you will have implemented major features, planned new features, contributed to our common driver specifications, and will be collaborating with the Product team to help craft our roadmap
Within twelve months, you'll have significantly improved the quality, performance and maintainability of our codebase, and will be taking the lead in designing and specifying major new features