Senior Software Engineer I - QuantumBlack, AI by McKinsey
McKinsey & Company · Johannesburg, South Africa · 2h ago
SeniorOn-siteSoftware Engineering
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, 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.
What you'll do
You will work with clients across a wide range of sectors and industries, advising them on how to best leverage technology.
You will drive architectural design, make key technology decisions, and employ agile methodologies to build and deliver the next generation of products for our clients at scale.
You will also lead project workstreams, helping clients build their technical capabilities and foster a culture centered around engineering best practices, user-centricity, and Agile values.
You will take on responsibilities that include driving architectural design and making strategic technology decisions to shape next-generation products for various internal teams, ensuring that we remain at the forefront of technological innovation.
Additionally, you will be hands-on and co-creating solutions alongside our clients and their leadership, enabling you to grow into a recognized technology leader.
You will be part of the Africa McKinsey Tech & AI team in either Casablanca or Johannesburg. This group brings together the best of McKinsey’s digital capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses.
McKinsey Tech & AI is our tech delivery people unit. A global team of software, data and cloud engineers, passionate designers, technology architects, product owners, and leading technologists. You will join a multidisciplinary community of developers, Agile coaches, designers, business strategists and experts. Together, we’ll design and create industry shaping products and tools for our clients.
While we advocate for using the right tech for the right task, we often leverage the following technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Angular.js, Next.js, Vue.js, Python, Java, C#, NodeJS, SQL, MongoDB, AWS, Azure, GCP, and more!
Our office culture is casual and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. You will have the freedom to try new ideas and experiment in your role and will be guaranteed significant dedicated time to tinker, create, continuously learn and share cool new stuff. We also have a strong emphasis in our teams on mentoring others enabling them to grow and learn.
Changing the world requires us to sit with our clients at times, so some travel is expected.
Your background
- Undergraduate or master’s degree; or equivalent experience
- 7+ years of experience in software development, with significant full-stack web application development experience strongly preferred
- Demonstrated knowledge and hands-on experience across the full application stack with some of the following languages/frameworks: JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Angular, Vue, jQuery, Java, Sprint, C#, .NET, Node.js, SQL, MySQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, cloud-native databases, AWS, Azure, GCP, Jenkins, Docker, Circle CI, Travis
- Experience leading in Agile teams, including coaching and modeling Agile mindsets as part of sprint ceremonies, work definition and building developer capabilities
- Experience working collaboratively with technical and non-technical team members and stakeholders including modeling and coaching others to use engineering best practices such as design patterns, customer-centric design, test-driven development, code refactoring, code review, and OWASP Top 10 security awareness