Staff Engineer, Application Modernization

MongoDB - New York, NY

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - New York, NY

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Staff Engineer, Application Modernization at MongoDB plays a crucial role in the newly formed Field Engineering team, bridging the gap between application modernization efforts and the Product and Engineering teams. This position focuses on helping organizations transition from legacy applications to modern platforms, leveraging MongoDB's capabilities to enhance scalability, resilience, and developer experience. The role involves evaluating and applying tools in modernization projects, facilitating their usage across teams, and contributing to the development of tooling prototypes to shape the product roadmap.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to customer application modernization initiatives at any or all phases of the application lifecycle.
• Test drive MongoDB migration products to deliver on customer use cases and drive adoption of the product.
• Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to influence the direction of the MongoDB product roadmap.
• Execute well-defined, outcome-focused projects, POC, MVP and everything in between.
• Maintain a broad and deep technical understanding of the product line and the underlying technologies and protocols.
• Assist sales teams in evaluating opportunities with prospects and customers.
• Willingness to work on site with customers for 7 days per month and to travel to Australia two weeks per year.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience as a field engineer or professional services consultant or full stack developer working directly with Enterprise clients.
• Proficiency in Python and Java or C#, and some familiarity with common database access patterns and frameworks in one or more of these languages.
• Expert level knowledge about enterprise-scale software architectures, application development methodologies, and software deployment and operations.
• Deep experience developing enterprise applications using relational databases, and employing SQL and stored procedures with Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase and/or PostgreSQL databases.
• Experience of using and developing with MongoDB and JSON based Document models is highly desirable.
• Problem solving skills, including the ability to collaborate across disciplines and teams to come up with creative solutions to technical and business challenges.
• Great communication skills (both spoken and written), within the team and in customer meetings.
• Good understanding of Generative AI concepts, tools, and services.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience to build new applications/tools using Generative AI is a big plus.
• Strong interest in how AI supported toolchains can improve application development.

Benefits

• Parental leave
• Paid time off
• 401(k) plan
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
• Fertility and adoption assistance
• Mental health counseling
• Access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
• Flexible paid time off