Senior Software Engineer - Periscope

Who You'll Work With

You will be a core member of the Marketing Efficiency for Growth (MEG) solution team based in Bengaluru and Gurugram, within the Marketing & Sales Practice. You will partner with experienced solution and integrative consulting colleagues passionate about creating the best products for our end users in our clients marketing organizations (CMO, brand managers).

MEG is the productization of the McKinsey approach to evaluate marketing spend, diagnose and recommend inefficiencies to re-invest funds for growth. Our first 1.0 version has been in the market for 1 year helping us serve 22 clients including some marquee tech and CPG brands! We are building on that success to scale our impact and build the next gen version of our product.

Our objective is to create the ‘Marketing Operating System of the Future’, a SaaS web-based client facing leave-behind solution. From a technical and user experience design standpoint, we are trying to solve problems around data at scale using modern technologies, machine learning, insights and anomaly detection. We want to address proliferation of channels and suppliers, rising customer expectations, rising media prices and compounded volatility in the COVID-19 era. We want to help clients address missed opportunities – direct access, scalability, coverage in certain channels, and simplifying and streamlining their data management processes.

Your Impact

You are a highly collaborative individual and enjoy solving problems that focus on adding business value. You have a sense of ownership and enjoy hands-on technical work. Our values resonate with yours.

Collaboration with business stakeholders, engineers, and internal teams to build and implement extraordinary retail-focused data products (reusable assets) and solutions and delivering them right to the client will be of utmost importance.

Other Key Responsibilities

• You will have responsibilities that range from shaping and implementing strategic products to ensuring that McKinsey’s craft stays on the leading edge of technology.
• In this role you will be involved in implementing software development projects.
• Your expertise will expand into Cloud technologies, DevOps and Continuous Delivery domains.
• You will be an active learner, identifying new or better ways to deliver impact with people and technology.
• You will develop a growth mindset and relish opportunities to use familiar and unfamiliar technologies, closed source and open source software, and develop better approaches to solving business and technical challenges.
• You will embrace agile software development practices and contribute to growing and improving our engineering organization.
• You will prototype code and participate in code reviews, facilitate breaking down user stories into technical tasks, and help manage the process by which code is delivered and its quality.
• You will lead the adoption of technical standards and best practices to grow high performing teams.
• You will identify and escalate barriers, dependencies and risks and collaborate with business stakeholders to mitigate the risks.
  
  

Your Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent area.
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Hands-on experience designing and building B2B or B2C products.
• Familiarity or proficiency in React, Angular, or another frontend framework.
• Ability to define user interfaces, components, and data structures to meet specified requirements.
• Capable of quickly ramping up on new frontend frameworks and delivering quality output.
• Experience with backend frameworks - Python (e.g., Express, Flask, Django, FastAPI).
• Proven ability to design robust APIs and backend services that scale efficiently.
• Hands-on experience with SQL (Postgres, Snowflake) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases, including writing complex queries, stored procedures, views, and optimizing performance.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including deploying applications and managing cloud infrastructure.
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, including serverless computing, microservices, and containerized deployments (Docker).
• Experience following cloud deployment best practices, leveraging infrastructure as code (Terraform) and troubleshooting cloud environments.
• Practical experience refactoring, design patterns, design driven development, continuous integration, system and application design, application security.
• Practical experience with agile software development methodologies.
• Ability to work independently with stakeholders, providing thought leadership on tech stack decisions and architectural trade-offs.
• Strong problem-solving skills, adaptability, and ability to work in high paced environments.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Fluent in English (both written and verbal).