Software Engineer 3 (SE3), Developer Productivity (Backstage)

MongoDB

3h

About The Position

As a Software Engineer 3 (SE3) 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 writing clean and maintainable code, and implementing features based on architectural guidance.

Requirements

• 2-4 years of professional software engineer experience with a strong focus on fullstack development
• Experience building scalable, modern web applications using MongoDB, Node.js, TypeScript/JavaScript, and React
• Hands-on experience with unit testing (Cypress, Jest, Playwright, etc.)
• Familiarity with 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 contributing to the design of scalable systems
• 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

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• design and build scalable features for MongoDB’s Internal Developer Portal using Backstage
• collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering teams to improve developer workflows and internal tooling
• writing clean and maintainable code
• implementing features based on architectural guidance

Benefits

• equity
• participation in the employee stock purchase program
• flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave
• fertility and adoption assistance
• 401(k) plan
• mental health counseling
• access to transgender-inclusive health insurance coverage
• health benefits offerings

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees