
Software Engineer 3, Code Modernization (AI)
- Gurgaon, Haryana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 2+ years of professional software development experience in Java or another programming language
- Experience with generative AI and specifically LLMs is highly desirable
- Experience with text processing engines such as ANTLR is highly desirable
- Strong understanding of software engineering, system design, data engineering and/or cloud architecture
- Have experience with compiler design, code parsing or related areas
- Familiarity with concepts like abstract syntax trees (AST), lexical analysis, and syntax analysis
- Curiosity, a positive attitude, and a drive to continue learning
- Actively engages in emerging trends and research relevant to product features
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define and implement a code modernisation strategy, ensuring that transformed code aligns with modern software practices while preserving original functionality
- Develop and maintain a robust code parser to accurately interpret legacy code structures, converting them into a standardised format like an abstract syntax tree (AST)
- Provide thought leadership to the engineering team on using emerging technologies, frameworks and approaches to solve different problems
- Collaborate closely with product managers and other engineers to understand business priorities and propose new solutions
- Contribute and maintain the high quality of the codebase with tests that provide a high level of functional coverage and non-functional aspects with load testing, unit testing, integration testing, etc
- Share your knowledge by giving brown bags, tech talks, and evangelising appropriate tech and engineering best practices
- Define and improve business & product metrics to optimise the quality and cost of AI usage
- Familiarise yourself with the MongoDB database and aggregation language
- Familiarise yourself with the problem space and the domain
- Set up software development infrastructure (tech stack, build tools, etc) to enable development using the relevant tech stacks
- Started collaborating with your peers and contributed to code reviews
- Worked on and delivered a large-scale AI-based feature in the product
- Contributed to and helped deliver a few releases of the product
- Reviewed and contributed to scope and technical design documents
- Delivered large-scale features across our entire tech stack
- Helped recruit and interview new members of the team
- Collaborated with other teams at MongoDB