Lead, Engineering

MongoDB is hiring a Lead, Engineering in Gurugram.

We are seeking an Engineering Lead to join our growing Gurugram Product & Technology team to provide technical direction, direct architecture, and implement core parts of a new platform we are building to make it easier for customers to build AI applications using MongoDB. As an Engineering Lead on this new team, you will be responsible for leading and growing an engineering team, taking on challenging, high-visibility projects that improve and enhance the performance, scalability, and reliability of the distributed systems infrastructure for this new product. MongoDB engineering teams pride t

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience of building distributed systems, and/or foundational cloud services at scale and experience in languages like Python, Golang, Java or Rust.

• 2+ years of experience managing a team of 3+ engineers and providing technical leadership

• Track record in hiring, mentoring, and growing high-performing software engineering teams, experience working with remote teams and a passion for mentoring and career development of the team

• Excellent verbal and written technical communication skills and desire to collaborate with colleagues, other teams, and lead projects

• Strong background in building core components for high-scale compute or data processing / distributed systems

• Have led the launch of new features and maintained them in production

• Bonus points for experience with containerization and orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes) and AI frameworks and tools

• Be a force multiplier in our software development process. Enable teams to deliver great products through leadership and technical contributions

• Eager to learn, with a strong technical background

Success Measures

• In the first month, you’ll have understood the surface area, the high level architecture of the new platform. You’ll have initiated one-on-one’s with your team members.

• In three months, you’ll have on-boarded onto the team and contributed to the design and development of a core platform capability

• In six months, you will have taken on full responsibility for projects slated for the subsequent quarter. You’ll have started growth conversations with your team members and begun to understand their longer-term career aspirations

• In twelve months, you’ll have led the development of multiple new features and performed a full annual cycle of performance and growth conversations with your team members. Additionally, you’ll have contributed to the vision for the future of the platform and helped develop a plan to achieve that vision

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 data platform for the AI era, enabling builders to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified data platform, the most widely available, globally distributed data platform on the market, helps organizations modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our cloud-native platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally dist