Senior Software Engineer

At McKinsey & Company, our most valuable resource is our people. As such, we've built a world class People Analytics and Measurement team to optimize people management and facilitate data-driven decision making. The goal of our group is to use data analytics to help improve employee satisfaction, team structure, recruiting decisions, and many other high impact use cases.

The People Analytics team is globally respected as a leader in its field and is dedicated to staying on the cutting edge of business intelligence and data science methodology and technology. You'll get in-depth exposure to new methodologies through hands-on client projects, e-learning, live boot camps and global analytics conferences.

You will be responsible for designing and for a build-out of a scalable modern web application in the people technology space. You will produce high quality code across the entire technology stack, from database to UI and support the value stream from idea to deployment.

You will also write clean, secure code that is performant and well tested. You will apply mature engineering principles and build modular services on the cloud.

You will have an eye for aesthetics and detail and ability to translate designs into responsive and interactive sites. You would also be required to handle the CI-CD aspects of the product and design services/infra for cloud native, containerized deployments. Additionally, you will assist with troubleshooting issues and improving application stability and performance in a proactive way and tackling tech-debt and defects.

You will demonstrate expertise in Agile way of working aligned with DevSecOps practices and act as a catalyst in building high-performing and self-organizing cross-functional teams. You will also contribute to the development and growth of engineers in the community.

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or equivalent

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in building enterprise-grade web applications using modern technologies, with an in-depth understanding of the JavaScript ecosystem for web development

• Strong experience working with JavaScript using Node.js and understanding of React, Next.js, Nest.js, TypeScript, ORM (TypeORM/Prisma/Sequelize)

• Familiarity with design patterns and clean coding standards using JavaScript

• Knowledge of database systems like PostgreSQL or MySQL

• Experience building cloud-native solutions on AWS services including EKS, ELB, API Gateway, Lambda

• Strong ability to write unit/integration tests using frameworks like Jest, Mocha, Chai

• Proven problem-solving and debugging skills

• Ability to design modular, scalable systems and drive the buildout component independently

• Other technical skills needed could include Python, Docker, Kubernetes/EKS, Argo CD, GitHub Actions, IaC: Terraform, Cloud Formation, Helm, Splunk, Dynatrace

• Nice to haves would include experience with relational databases such as Express