Senior Full Stack Developer, Developer Productivity (Backstage)

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 and run applications anywhere—on premises, or across cloud providers. With offices worldwide and over 175,000 new developers signing up to use MongoDB every month, it’s no wonder that leading organizations, like Samsung and Toyota, trust MongoDB to build next-generation, AI-powered applications.

What you will get to do

As a Senior Fullstack Developer on the Developer Productivity - Developer Experience team, you will design and build scalable features for MongoDB’s Internal Developer Portal using Backstage. You’ll collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to improve developer workflows and internal tooling. The role involves contributing to architectural decisions, writing clean and maintainable code, and promoting best practices.

Our Ideal Candidate Will Have

• 6+ years of professional software engineer experience with a strong focus on fullstack development
• Proven ability to build scalable, performance optimized, modern web applications using MongoDB, Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript, and React
• Hands-on experience with unit testing (Cypress, Jest, Playwright, etc.)
• Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Hands-on experience leveraging Kubernetes, Helm, and modern infrastructure-as-code tools
• Solid understanding of API Integrations and other kinds of service discovery mechanisms to build/maintain a robust service catalog
• Experience working within distributed systems and have designed highly-scalable systems across various projects
• Demonstrate sound engineering practices like continuous delivery and automated testing
• You have impact through your communication skills and can successfully partner with different engineering teams across domains such as product developers, platforms engineers and SREs, etc
• Comfortable writing and reviewing technical design documents and specifications

What makes you stand out?

• Hands-on experience working with Backstage (by Spotify), including platform extensions, portal management, and integrating various systems and tools to make them available to end users
• Deep understanding of the Backstage architecture, including plugin development, software catalog, scaffolder, and TechDocs
• Bonus points if you have experience in using and applying large language models; Experience with AI application development is a plus

Interview process

Upon successfully passing the preliminary screenings, candidates will be invited to participate in live coding assessments, followed by a system design evaluation, to determine the alignment of their technical proficiencies with the requirements of the role. 

It is imperative that candidates demonstrate a high level of technical expertise and experience in the live sessions; otherwise, they will be disqualified.

Success Measures

• In 3 months, you've gained a deep understanding of the Developer Productivity team ecosystem and build and deployment workflows
• In 6 months, you are successfully contributing to our projects, including deploying code to production and taking on troubleshooting issues and resolving bugs
• In 9 months, you are successfully leading aspects of the technical architecture and enhancement of our tech stack, and technical roadmaps for the teams
• In 12 months, you are successfully contributing to mentoring and growing other team members

To drive the personal growth and business impact of our employees, we’re committed to developing a supportive and enriching culture for everyone. From employee affinity groups, to fertility assistance and a generous parental leave policy, we value our employees’ wellbeing and want to support them along every step of their professional and personal journeys. Learn more about what it’s like to work at MongoDB, and help us make an impact on the world!

MongoDB is committed to providing any necessary accommodations for individuals with disabilities within our application and interview process. To request an accommodation due to a disability, please inform your recruiter.

MongoDB, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and makes all hiring decisions without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Req ID: 2263168000