Staff Engineer, Data (Cloud Native Fullstack/ Backend Engineer)

Job Description

Who You'll Work With

You will be based in our Atlanta office as part of McKinsey’s Technology & Digital function. The Technology & Digital function develops technology solutions for the internal firm. You’ll be part of a team that is responsible to deliver technology-enabled solutions of the future. This will involve all business value chain activities from understanding product needs to product development, to on-going maintenance and enhancement. You’ll be a fully contributing team member, under broad guidance from architects and technology leaders.

What You'll Do

You will be responsible for the development, support, maintenance and implementation of an enterprise application that is scalable, resilient and distributed.In this role, you will be responsible for migrating existing solutions onto a public cloud and help adapt cloud native capabilities. You’ll work on solving problems of relatively complex scope through general usage of standard programming concepts and principles and application of own judgment. You’ll be a member of a squad that has the technical capability to develop and implement various components of an application from end to end. You will develop and implement new and ongoing application needs to complete end to end setup of the product. You will also contribute to the architecture across the technology stack, from database to native apps. You will design, build and deploy full-scale enterprise applications by working collaboratively and iteratively through design and development to deliver fully function web-based and mobile applications that meet business goals.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in a technology-related field from an accredited college/university
• 10+ years of IT experience with appetite for high-end software development
• 2 years of experience developing cloud native applications preferably using AWS (S3, EKS, lambda, ECS, EC2, EFS, RDS, SQS, SNS, Elastic Beanstalk, Amplify, API Gateway, etc.) and good understanding of DNS, TCP/IP, SMTP, HTTP and distributed networks
• Certification as AWS solutions architect or solutions architect associate
• Solid product development experience
• Solid experience with ReactJS, Redux, Typescript, HTML5, CSS3, ECMAScript 6, WebPack and Babel
• Understanding of CSS pre-processing platforms, such as LESS and SASS
• Experience with Java 8 or higher
• Experience with SpringBoot 2 framework
• Experience working with Microservices and Event Driven Architecture
• Experience working with container orchestration managers such as Kubernetes
• Experience with TDD and DevOps practices and tooling (e.g. CI/CD pipelines)
• Experience with backend and/or frontend testing frameworks like JUnit, Mocha, Chai, Enzyme
• Solid problem-solving capabilities including the ability to disaggregate issues, identify root causes and recommend solutions
• Passionate about technology and excited about the emerging/disruptive technologies
• Strong interpersonal, written/verbal communications skills