About the Role
MongoDB is establishing a Forward Deployed Engineering team within its extended R&D organization. This team will bridge application modernization efforts with our Product and Engineering teams, exploring the potential of Generative AI technologies and providing critical feedback to drive future capabilities of MongoDB and its ecosystem. Application Modernization Engineers will collaborate with project teams executing Application Modernisation projects for customers, focusing on tool evaluation, building, and application, and contributing to the development of tooling prototypes.
Our Ideal Candidate Will Have
- 4+ years of experience as a field engineer, professional services consultant, or full stack developer working directly with Enterprise clients.
- Proficiency in Java or C#, and familiarity with common database access patterns and frameworks in these languages.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise-scale software architectures, application development methodologies, and software deployment and operations.
- Experience developing enterprise applications using relational databases, and employing SQL and stored procedures with Oracle, MS SQL Server, Sybase, and/or PostgreSQL databases.
- Experience using and developing with MongoDB and JSON based Document models is highly desirable.
- Proven problem-solving skills, including the ability to collaborate across disciplines and teams to develop creative solutions to technical and business challenges.
- Willingness to dive into complex domains, ask the right questions, and introduce new software tools and technologies to solve customer problems.
- Excellent communication skills (both spoken and written), for internal team interactions and customer meetings.
- Good understanding of Generative AI concepts, tools, and services. Experience building new applications/tools using Generative AI, including Cursor, Claude Code, Gemini, and OpenAI APIs, is a significant plus.
- A strong interest in how AI-supported toolchains can improve application development.
Position Expectations
- Contribute to customer application modernization initiatives across all phases: assessment, analysis, planning, design, data modeling, application code conversion, development, testing, build, integration, release configuration, production operations, application optimization, and best practices adoption.
- Test drive MongoDB migration products to deliver on customer use cases and drive product adoption, providing concise feedback to the development organization.
- Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to influence the direction of the MongoDB product roadmap.
- Personally execute Proof of Concepts (POCs), including developing or extending existing tools when necessary and appropriate for customer success, with a focus on reusability and eventual product integration. These often occur on-premises at client locations.
- Maintain a broad and deep technical understanding of the product line and underlying technologies and protocols.
- Work as part of a wider delivery team comprising consulting engineers from MongoDB Professional Services, project managers, and account teams.
- Assist sales teams in evaluating opportunities with prospects and customers.
- Willingness to work on-site with customers for 7 days per month, which includes regional travel within Europe.
Success Measures
The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer will be successful in this role by:
- Becoming an expert-level user of MongoDB and current migration products.
- Developing a playbook for customer application modernization engagements in collaboration with other MongoDB Engineers, Product Management, and Engineering.
- Communicating complex technical proposals simply and convincingly to diverse audiences.
- Providing unique insight into customer needs, product requirements, and strategic opportunities based on field experience.
- Gaining a reputation as a trusted advisor with field teams and customers.
- Contributing to the success of customer application migration initiatives they support.