Senior Software Engineer - Periscope

Who You'll Work With

Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
  
  

Your Impact

You are a collaborative problem-solver who thrives on adding business value through hands-on technical work. With a strong sense of ownership, you align closely with our values. Your role will focus on working with business stakeholders, engineers, and internal teams to build and deliver exceptional retail-focused data products and solutions directly to clients.

Your responsibilities include shaping and implementing strategic products while keeping McKinsey at the forefront of technology. You will work on software development projects, expanding expertise in Cloud technologies, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery. As an active learner, you will explore new ways to deliver impact, embrace both familiar and unfamiliar technologies, and solve business and technical challenges. You will adopt agile practices, prototype code, participate in code reviews, and manage code delivery processes. Additionally, you will lead the adoption of technical standards, build high-performing teams, and collaborate with stakeholders to address risks and dependencies.

As part of the Marketing Efficiency for Growth (MEG) solution team in Bengaluru and Gurugram, you will collaborate with experienced colleagues to create impactful products for clients’ marketing organizations. MEG is McKinsey’s approach to optimizing marketing spend, diagnosing inefficiencies, and reinvesting for growth. Over the past year, our 1.0 version has supported 22 clients, including leading tech and CPG brands. We are now scaling our impact with the next-generation product.

Our vision is to build the "Marketing Operating System of the Future," a SaaS, web-based, client-facing solution. Using modern technologies, machine learning, and anomaly detection, we aim to solve challenges around data at scale. We address issues like channel proliferation, rising customer expectations, increasing media costs, and volatility in the post-COVID era. By simplifying and streamlining data management, we help clients unlock missed opportunities, improve scalability, and drive growth.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent area
• 6+ years of experience in software engineering and a must hands-on experience designing and building B2B or B2C products
• Familiarity or proficiency in React, Angular, or another frontend framework.cloud-native architectures, including serverless computing, microservices, and containerized deployments (Docker)
• 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, optimizing performance, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including deploying applications and managing cloud infrastructure
• 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 & experinece 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