Software Engineer, Application Modernisation

MongoDB’s mission is to empower innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries by unleashing the power of software and data. We enable organizations of all sizes to easily build, scale, and run modern applications by helping them modernize legacy workloads, embrace innovation, and unleash AI. Our industry-leading developer data platform, MongoDB Atlas, is the only globally distributed, multi-cloud database and is available in more than 115 regions across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. Atlas allows customers to build anywhere—on the edge, on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 developers joining MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

MongoDB is growing its team in Sydney, focusing on creating tools that guide customers in transitioning their applications from relational databases to MongoDB. As businesses evolve their application development frameworks, they're increasingly drawn to the versatility of the document model. The Application Modernisation team, already instrumental in this area, aids developers in making the shift from relational databases to MongoDB. Now, they're broadening their toolkit and are keen on refining code using a mix of AI and traditional text processing.

MongoDB is looking for a software engineer who is passionate about usability, clean design, and data-intensive applications to join our team. A successful candidate will collaborate closely with product management and other team members to help drive the design and implementation of a cutting-edge product.

We are looking to speak to candidates who are based in Sydney for our hybrid working model.

The ideal candidate for this role will have

• 2-3 years of commercial experience developing web applications in Java, Typescript and React
• Experience with building Python web services
• Experience with relational data modelling and SQL (Postgres, MySQL, etc)
• Good understanding of algorithms, data structures and their time and space complexity
• Exposure to generative AI and Machine Learning
• Curiosity, a positive attitude, and a drive to continue learning
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Position Expectations

• Contribute high quality code to the Relational Migrator product
• Participate in code reviews and technical discussions
• Give and solicit feedback on technical design documents and pull requests
• Collaborate with Product Management and UX design teams, help prioritize the backlog and plan sprints
• Collaborate with product management, product designers and other engineers
• Perform tasks related to process such as CI/CD, quality, testing, etc 

Success Measures

Within the first three months, you will have

• Familiarised yourself with the MongoDB database and aggregation language
• Familiarised yourself with the backend tech stack including Java, Spring Boot and Python
• Set up software development infrastructure (tech stack, build tools, etc) to enable development using the relevant tech stacks
• Started collaborating with your peers and contributed to code reviews

Within six months, you will have

• Familiarised yourself with the rest of our codebase including the frontend stack, GitHub workflows, etc
• Worked on and delivered a medium scale feature in the product
• Contributed to and helped deliver a few releases of the product
• Reviewed and contributed to scope and technical design documents

Within 12 months, you will have

• Familiarised yourself with the work of other teams within the product
• Delivered at least one large scale feature that spans the entire tech stack
• Helped recruit and interview new members of the team

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