Who You'll Work With
You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.
In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.
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. Plus, you'll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- Exceptional benefits: In addition to a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children.
Your Impact
You'll be part of McKinsey's Tech Ecosystem function, which is responsible for developing and delivering all technology solutions for the firm's internal use.
Based in one of our global offices, you'll work on engineering challenges that are critical to the firm's success.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in developing impactful AI-driven solutions by collaborating closely with engineers, designers, and product managers within a product team. Your responsibilities will include writing, testing, debugging, and maintaining application code using core technologies, while also tackling complex technical challenges to shape the evolution of internal products and platforms.
By staying current with emerging technologies and industry trendssuch as cloud, security, automation, and AIyou will apply these insights to build robust, future-ready solutions, all while working with a global, cross-functional team to drive innovation and deliver meaningful impact across the firm.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- 5+ years experience, as a software engineer preferably
- Strong programming skills in Python, SQL, and JavaScript/TypeScript
- Solid experience with frontend frameworks like React (Next.js is a plus)
- Backend development experience with Node.js and common API design patterns
- Exposure to performance-oriented languages (e.g., Golang, Elixir, Rust) is a bonus
- Experience building scalable, cloud-native applications, preferably on AWS
- Proficient in developing and consuming RESTful APIs that are secure and performant
- Familiarity with IAM protocols (OAuth, SAML, JWT)
- Working knowledge of both SQL and NoSQL databases (e.g., Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB)
- Exposure to LLMs, prompt engineering, and GenAI integration in applications
- Understanding of RAG pipelines and vector databases (e.g., FAISS, Pinecone) is a plus
- Experience with data ingestion and ETL workflows for structured/unstructured data
