Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent area
• 8+ years of experience in Software Engineering
• Experience with building B2B and consumer quality products, enabling business      capability and objectives through technology
• Hands-on skills working with SQL and No-SQL databases
• Broad experience across the following application development technologies and in-depth skills with at least one: NodeJS, Angular, React, Python, R, Java and/or other open source application development frameworks
• Strong cloud infrastructure experience with AWS
• Experience in container technologies like Docker / Kubernetes a plus
• Experience in engineering practices such as code refactoring, design patterns, design driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application security
• Knowledge of Agile software development process
• Able to guide the creation of technical documentation and support junior team members
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
• Able to work under competing priorities, manage expectations effectively and support the team under pressure-
• Distinct customer focus and quality mindset
• Strong command of English language (both verbal and written)
• Willingness to travel up to 30%

Who You'll Work With 

You’ll work with McKinsey’s agricultural analytics team (ACRE) in Denver, CO. 

Our Agriculture Practice advises agribusiness, consumer food, government, and investor clients on strategic and operations issues, helping support industry-shaping decisions that impact the future of global food production.  Within this group, the ACRE team applies advanced analytics and big data techniques to global agricultural markets, driving insights at the micro and macro levels.

McKinsey fosters innovation driven by analytics, design thinking, mobile and social by developing new products/services and integrating them into our client work. It is helping to shift our model toward asset-based consulting and is a foundation for – and expands our investment in – our entrepreneurial culture. Through innovative software as a service solutions, strategic acquisitions, and a vibrant ecosystem of alliances, we are redefining what it means to work with McKinsey.

What You'll Do 

You will help deliver software products with high levels of value, usability, quality and predictability for our ACRE Solution. 

You will have the opportunity to develop new products to take to our clients, leveraging cloud technologies, and microservices architecture patterns. You will be an active learner, identifying new open source libraries, and you'll use unfamiliar technologies and learn new programming languages to meet technical requirements. 

You will also work with databases and complex data sets, and you'll leverage your strong understanding of key agile engineering practices to guide teams and contribute to growing and improving our engineering practices.

In this role, you will lead a development team and mentor engineers within the team. You will ensure accurate and complete release and deployment plans by the team and you will build through consensus a technical vision and help the team execute and iterate on it. You will help your team build better engineering practices, building on our automated testing and continuous integration practices.  Initially you may be working with a development partner team as we build out our internal engineering capability.

You will identify and escalate technical barriers, dependencies and risks and you'll be expected to ensure technical standards and best practices are followed at all times. Additionally, you will help manage the process by which code is delivered and its quality, and you'll contribute code and participate in code reviews.  You will also facilitate breaking down user stories into technical tasks and you will communicate technical and delivery risk to team and escalate to management when appropriate.