Senior Software Engineer I - McKinsey Digital

Overview

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, all while upholding our unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity. 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.
  
  

You will help to design and create industry shaping products and tools with high levels of value, usability, quality and predictability for our clients.

This includes hands-on, ground-up development as well as coaching and mentoring our client teams to enable best practices while working towards delivering new software products and services, enabling technological transformations for our clients through bespoke tech development and delivery.

In this role, you will employ agile methodologies to quickly provide our consultants with the solutions they need. You will help combine the latest open-source technologies together with traditional Enterprise software products.

You will be based in our Bangalore or Gurgaon office as part of McKinsey Digital.

McKinsey Digital brings together the best of McKinsey’s digital capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses. As part of this group, you’ll join a global team working on everything from IT modernization and strategy to agile, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. You’ll typically work on projects across all industries and functions and will be fully integrated with the rest of our global firm.

You’ll also work with colleagues from across McKinsey & Company to help our clients deliver breakthrough products, experiences, and businesses, both on technology and non-technology topics.

Our office culture is casual, fun, and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. You will have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• Undergraduate or master’s degree
• 6 to 8 years of experience in software development and architecture of various solutions
• Strong application development knowledge of any of the following technologies: XML, Javascript, Oracle, RDBMS, .Net, Java, Python
• Experience with one or more building cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP
• Experience building Gen AI and Agentic AI application using technologies such as OpenAI, Gemini, Bedrock, LangGraph, LangChain, Vector DB, Embeddings would be an added advantage
• Exposure to Data Engineering concepts and technologies such as PySpark, ETL, Databrick, Azure Data Fabric would be added advantage
• Familiarity with DevOps and DevSecOps practices and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes etc.
• Engineering practice experience such as code refactoring, design patterns, design-driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application security
• Demonstrated track record of successfully understanding the business requirements and designing realistic and effective solutions
• Knowledge of Agile software development process
• Familiarity with testing frameworks such as RSpec, JUnit, or Selenium
• Ability to clearly understand the business needs and translate them into best- in-class enterprise solutions