“DJ is phenomenal. They find amazing candidates, make hiring extraordinary devs easy. Think of it as having a top recruiter, HR, and payroll departments in dozens of countries.”
Get a curated shortlist of senior Mongoose engineers in 2 weeks. We headhunt senior Node.js/ MongoDB engineers who design reliable schemas, speed up queries, and ship stable releases. We handle contracts, payroll, and compliance. No freelancers, just dedicated full-time employees.
Andres
Recruitment Expert
Verified
Data Modeling Sense: Designs clear, future-proof data models that fit the product. Knows when to split data into separate records vs. nest it, keeps versions, and blocks bad data with sensible rules.
Fast, Efficient Queries: Plans for speed before coding. Adds the right “look-up helpers” (indexes), returns only what’s needed, and uses proper paging so lists and reports stay quick.
Data Safety & Consistency: A great Mongoose expert keeps records accurate even under heavy traffic. They prevent duplicates and partial writes and make changes safe to retry if something fails mid-way.
Safe Changes Over Time: Can change the database without downtime, backfill old data safely, archive what you no longer need, and auto-clean truly stale records.
Performance as You Grow: Keeps APIs fast as users and data increase—balances reads/writes, uses caching when it helps, and plans for replicas / future scale so you don’t hit a wall.
Remote-readiness: clear async writing, soft skills, dependable U.S./Canada overlap.
Carla
API & Data Integrity
She is experienced in Nest.js integrations, DTO/validation layers, multi-tenant boundaries, online migrations, Redis caching, and observability, and has over 9 years of experienc
Nicolas
Senior Node.js/Mongoose Engineer
He is experienced in schema design, discriminators, aggregation pipelines, index strategy, Mongo transactions, and Jest/Supertest CI, and has over 8 years of experience.
Ishan
Performance & Migrations Lead
He is experienced in profiling, query plans, pagination at scale, backfills with change streams, sharding readiness, and rollback strategies, and has over 10 years of experience.
Testimonials
“DJ is phenomenal. They find amazing candidates, make hiring extraordinary devs easy. Think of it as having a top recruiter, HR, and payroll departments in dozens of countries.”
“DistantJob took the time to talk about the job description and explore what was important to us. They came back with a great candidate on the first try!”
“I can easily say that I’ve never worked with a more dedicated, patient, and productive developer. DistantJob made the remote engagement painless. Win-win!”
“We have 3 employees from DistantJob right now. Phenomenal. For the dollar value that we are spending, we are far ahead of what we would find locally or offshore.”
“Hiring through DistantJob (…) surpassed my expectations. I had no opinion before, neither for [remote work] or against, but this experience definitely put it on the radar for me.”
“DistantJob is great for helping you find technical folks especially when your local area doesn’t have the right pool of talent for the job.”
“The remote developers presented by DistantJob] delivered a caliber of quality, skill and technical expertise, beyond my best expectations, far exceeding our local team members.”
“Working with DistantJob made everything about recruiting a highly technical employee easier and cost-effective.”
As a leading remote IT recruitment agency, we care that our clients take part throughout the hiring process. Why? Because for us, hiring a qualified candidate is not only about the skills and abilities, but it’s also about how candidates match with your company’s culture.
As soon as you talk with us or fill our form, the first thing we do is analyze your company. We want to understand your culture and the type of people you value working with.
In 2 weeks, you’ll start reviewing people that match your requirements. We focus on providing you 3-5 top candidates instead of giving you an endless list.
Once you select the candidate, we handle all the contracts, NDA’s and payments from day 1.
We proactively source across global markets and triage applicants based on their expertise, salary band, U.S. time-zone overlap, English fluency, and long-term availability.
A recruiter assesses English proficiency, async communication, culture add, motivation, and availability. We verify work history and stability (no serial short stints).
Live modeling exercise, query-plan analysis, and a migration case; plus code quality and communication review.
Senior engineers run a live session vetting their skills.
We speak with past stakeholders and review code artifacts where possible. We confirm achievements, ownership level, and reliability in distributed teams.
We align on start date, hardware/security constraints, preferred collaboration tools, and, when needed, relocation logistics inside the US.
| Model | Best For | What You Get | Trade-offs |
|---|---|---|---|
| DistantJob (Placement) | Long-term ownership | Full-time Mongoose dev in your team; U.S. overlap; HR handled | Not for one-off gigs |
| Outsourcing agency | Managed project | Vendor team delivers scope | Less control, vendor IP/process |
| Marketplace/freelancers | Short tasks | Fast, flexible | Turnover; you manage vetting/compliance |
| Job boards/DIY | Big applicant pools | Control | Slow; heavy screening work |
No. We place full-time remote employees who work in your repos and rituals.
Most teams onboard an Mongoose developer in 2–4 weeks.
Yes, the shortlists prioritize dependable overlap and strong async communication.
Yes: global contracts, NDA, payroll, benefits, and compliance are included.
A Mongoose developer should have the following skills: strong schema & validation design, index strategy, aggregation pipelines, transactions, safe migrations, API integration (Express/Nest.js), testing (Jest/Supertest), and TypeScript.
When you partner with DistantJob for your next hire, you get the highest quality developers who will deliver expert work on time. We headhunt developers globally; that means you can expect candidates within two weeks or less and at a great value.
Increase your development output within the next 30 days without sacrificing quality.
