Senior Lead Engineer, Code Generation

The Application Modernization Platform (AMP) team is tackling one of the industry's most critical challenges: leveraging Generative AI to transform rigid, legacy applications into modern, microservices-based architectures powered by MongoDB. A core difficulty in legacy code transformation is guaranteeing the equivalence of the new application's business logic, ensuring it operates smoothly and efficiently with the new MongoDB data ecosystems in a reliable and scalable manner. The success of this mission heavily relies on the essential tools developed by the CodeGen team.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Lead Software Engineer with a strong background in database ecosystem, reshaping complex large-scale services and team leadership. You will lead a talented team building a complex product suite using GenAI capabilities. The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader who can drive architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate closely with product management to deliver a product that solves our customers' most challenging application transformation problems.

This role will be based in North America west coast, and offers a hybrid working model.

The ideal candidate for this role will have

10+ years of software development and operations experience, with a focus on building platforms and distributable software infrastructure

2+ years of experience leading, coaching, and mentoring a team of software engineers to achieve high-impact results

Extensive product experience in building enterprise-grade analytics systems for data streaming or data tooling

Extensive experience with relational and document data modeling and hands-on experience with at least one SQL database (Postgres, MySQL, etc) and at least one document database (e.g. MongoDB)

Having experience in using GenAI in building complex large-scale systems, and knowing what GenAI is best suited to do, is a plus

Curiosity, a positive attitude, and a drive to continue learning

Excellent