Software Engineer 3, Documentation Platform
- Your creativity helps you explore new ways to make documentation engaging and user-friendly.
- Your strong values align with MongoDB’s culture of respect and collaboration, making you a good team player.
- You are adaptable and open to experimentation, fitting the role’s exploration of new technologies.
- Your preference for flexible, independent work may clash with the structured CI/CD and production code requirements.
- You might struggle with the analytical, data-driven side of analyzing user behavior and platform performance.
MongoDB is seeking a Software Engineer 3 to join the Documentation Platform Engineering Team. The Documentation Platform delivers 60M page views a year and is critical to our users’ understanding of MongoDB products.It is also increasingly the context engine that helps AI tools understand, surface, and recommend MongoDB correctly. You will contribute to the evolution of our documentation platform by building and improving internal infrastructure, integrations, and applications that support our documentation and learning experience.
This role can be based out of one of our offices in Canada or the USA, or remotely in Canada or the USA.
Our ideal candidate
- Hands-on experience and understanding of Git, TypeScript, React, Next.js, CI/CD, MDX and other markup languages
- Experience with MongoDB (or a strong track record of working with other databases)
- Has worked on complex, in-production web applications
- Deep understanding of TypeScript or JavaScript, preferably TypeScript
- Can write, discuss, and review code in a collaborative way
- Understands how to make resilient, scalable, and maintainable software
- Has 2+ years of professional experience building and maintaining production software systems
At MongoDB, you will
- Contribute to the development and enhancement of the MongoDB Documentation Platform
- Explore ways to improve documentation accessibility, discoverability, and user engagement
- Develop features that enhance the user experience for documentation consumers and contributors
- Contribute to and occasionally lead small-to-medium scoped features and platform improvements, collaborating with partner teams as needed
- Analyze user behavior and platform performance to identify gaps and improve effectiveness
- Identify and implement improvements that make the platform more reliable, maintainable, and easier for engineers and contributors to work in
- Work with some of the best and brightest engineers in the industry who thrive on collaboration, technical excellence, and mutual respect
You’ll be successful if you
- Understand our core values and apply them to your work
- Show curiosity, collaborative thinking, and intellectual honesty
- Are excited by full-stack and AI technologies
- Are adaptable and keen to experiment
- Have excellent written and verbal communication skills
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 distributed, multi-cloud data platform and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
With offices worldwide and over 67,000 customers, including 75% of the Fortune 100 and AI-native startups, relying on MongoDB for their most important applications, we’re powering the next era of software.
Our compass at MongoDB is our Leadership Commitment, guiding how and why we make decisions, show up for each other, and win. It’s what makes us MongoDB.
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 is an equal opportunities employer.
REQ ID: 2273491036
Best personality fits for this role
Your curiosity and love for experimenting fit perfectly with exploring ways to improve documentation accessibility and discoverability.
Read the INTP career guide →Your love for brainstorming and exploring new ideas aligns perfectly with innovating documentation accessibility and discoverability.
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