Associate- Full-Stack Engineer(Retail)
Bain & Company · New Delhi, India · 3d ago
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 65 offices in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition and redefine industries. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry. In 2004, the firm established its presence in the Indian market by opening the Bain Capability Center (BCC) in New Delhi. The BCC is now known as BCN (Bain Capability Network) with its nodes across various geographies. BCN is an integral and largest unit of (ECD) Expert Client Delivery. ECD plays a critical role as it adds value to Bain's case teams globally by supporting them with analytics and research solutioning across all industries, specific domains for corporate cases, client development, private equity diligence or Bain intellectual property. The BCN comprises of Consulting Services, Knowledge Services and Shared Services
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH:
- Design, build, and ship features end-to-end - from React/Next.js interfaces through Python APIs to the underlying data layer for Bain’s proprietary Retail products.
- Develop responsive, intuitive front-end components and dashboards that make complex retail analytics accessible to case teams and end clients.
- Build and maintain backend services and REST APIs (Python, FastAPI) that are secure, scalable, and well tested.
- Design database schemas and write performant SQL to support both product features and analytical workflows.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Docker and Git for continuous deployment on cloud platforms (Azure / AWS / GCP).
- Implement logging, monitoring, and automated testing to keep products reliable and performant in production.
- Integrate AI/LLM capabilities into product workflows where they meaningfully improve the user experience.
- Partner with product managers, and consulting teams to translate business problems into product requirements and shape the roadmap.
- Contribute to code reviews, technical documentation, and engineering standards across the Retail CoE product portfolio.
The Associate is expected to have a knack for seeking out challenging problems and producing their own ideas, which they will be encouraged to brainstorm with their peers and managers. They should be willing to learn new techniques and be open to solving problems with an interdisciplinary approach. They must have excellent coding skills and should demonstrate a willingness to write modular, reusable, and functional code.
- A Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred
- 2–4 years of experience in full stack development, building and shipping production-grade web applications
- Strong front-end skills in React or Next.js, including component design, state management, and responsive UI
- Proficiency in Python and building production backend services and REST APIs (FastAPI, Flask, or Django)
- Working knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases (PostgreSQL, Azure SQL, Snowflake, MongoDB), including schema design and query optimisation
- Experience with Docker, CI/CD, Git/GitHub, and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
- Familiarity with authentication/authorisation patterns, API security, and performance monitoring
- Comfort working with data — complex SQL, and large-scale datasets using Pandas or PySpark
- Basic business and data acumen, able to translate business requirements into product features
- Good-to-have: exposure to embedding AI/LLM capabilities into applications (RAG, agent frameworks, or model APIs)
- Good-to-have: prior exposure to consulting projects or the Retail business domain
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