Senior Software Engineer

Requirements

• Have 4+ years of experience writing high-quality software
• Significant experience working with JavaScript/TypeScript on the backend of your application(s)
• Experience with databases, relational or non-relational
• Good written and spoken English communication skills

Nice to Haves

• Experience contributing to open source projects
• Experience building production applications with mongoose and/or the Node.js driver itself
• Experience using or contributing to open source AI frameworks/integrations such as LangChain or n8n
• Experience working with MongoDB and the document model
• A diversity of experience writing tests for the software you developed (unit, integration, end to end, performance, etc)
• A working knowledge of C++

What You'll Be Doing

• Maintain and build features for the MongoDB Node.js Driver along with its dependencies and native C++ addons (bson, mongodb-client-encryption, @mongodb-js/zstd, kerberos)
• Contribute to JavaScript open source client libraries and MongoDB AI/ML integrations and ODMs (e.g., mongoose)
• Contribute to the common driver specifications supporting the full range of MongoDB features
• Investigate bugs and support requests from commercial customers, open source users, and internal users for the libraries our team maintains
• Collaborate closely with peers in our distributed world-wide engineering team

Perks and Benefits

• Within one month, you will understand the high-level architecture of the driver and how MongoDB works, and will have completed a few small bug fixes and/or feature tickets
• Within three months, you will be contributing effectively day-to-day, fixing bugs, implementing planned features, and thoroughly reviewing your colleagues’ pull requests
• Within six months, you will have implemented major features, planned new features, contributed to our common driver specifications, and will be collaborating with the Product team to help craft our roadmap
• Within twelve months, you’ll have significantly improved the quality, performance and maintainability of our codebase, and will be taking the lead in designing and specifying major new features