Senior Fullstack Developer & Developer Productivity (Backstage)

MongoDB; Remote; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading database technology firm is seeking a Senior Fullstack Developer to enhance its Internal Developer Portal using Backstage. You will collaborate across product, design, and engineering teams to refine developer tooling and workflows. This role requires 6+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on fullstack development, CI/CD, and cloud infrastructures. Ideal candidates have strong communication skills and can contribute to architectural decisions. Remote work opportunities are available for this role.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software engineering experience with a strong focus on fullstack development.
• Hands-on experience with unit testing tools like Cypress, Jest, Playwright.
• Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of API integrations for a robust service catalog.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable features for MongoDB's Internal Developer Portal.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to improve workflows.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and maintain clean code.
• Participate in live coding assessments and system design evaluations.

Skills

Software engineering

Fullstack development

Unit testing

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud infrastructure

Kubernetes

API integrations

Distributed systems

Technical documentation

Communication skills

Tools

Cypress

AWS

GCP

Azure

Backstage

Job description

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.

This role can be based remotely in Canada.

Our ideal candidate will have

• 6+ years of professional software engineer experience with a strong focus on fullstack development
• 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

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.

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

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 database for the AI era, enabling innovators to create, transform, and disrupt industries with software. MongoDB’s unified database platform—the most widely available, globally distributed database 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 database and is available across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

With offices worldwide and nearly 60,000 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.

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.

MongoDB’s base salary range for this role in Canada is: