Staff Software Application Engineer, Founders Studio

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WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Participate within a cross functional product team to develop and deploy production quality code for clients
• Build reusable libraries and software components to accelerate the delivery of client solutions
• Develop and champion modern software development best practices and concepts to technical audience and business stakeholders
• Take the lead in designing, developing, and documenting full stack application software; evaluating third-party software products for integration as needed
• Participate in the full software development life cycle including architecture design, writing documentation and unit/integration tests, identifying issues and resolution, writing clean code, conducting code reviews, and mentoring other Engineers
• Scope, architect, design, develop, build, and release robust and scalable applications
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements and implementation details
• Complex systems that are extensible, easy to understand, and self-maintaining.
• Integration with third-party systems to enable use cases that power business solutions.
• Work closely with web designers and developers to create modern UI/UX web applications.
• Design and develop standardized application frameworks to support a variety of applications.
• Provide technical guidance to external clients and internal stakeholders in Bain.

• Advise and coach engineering teams on technology stack best practices and operational models to raise their software engineering capabilities.
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks (technical, people and timelines) at multiple levels
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
• Take an active role in ideation processes, alongside consulting and client colleagues, to bring innovative solutions to problems
• Lead engagements that help to understand current state of clients’ technical infrastructure, build processes, security needs, etc.
• Work in a collaborative manner with clients’ technical teams to define technical approaches to implementing designed solutions, including new product architecture, data flows and integration strategies, build processes, etc.
• Occasional travel is required

 ABOUT YOU

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent work experience
• Experience in an engineering role at a start-up or fast-growing tech company, with a strong track record of increasing mastery and responsibility
• 4+ years of experience with web application development
• 4+ years of experience with server-side application development
• Experience with building full stack applications
• Strong computer science fundaments in data structures, algorithms, automated testing, object-oriented programming, performance complexity, and implications of computer architecture on software performance.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills,
• Strong knowledge in designing and maintaining APIs (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC).
• Strong knowledge in application deployments in the cloud using CI/CD development process.
• Knowledge in DB schema designs.
• Agile development methodology.
• Version control and git workflows.

Ideal candidates will also have experience in:

• Masters in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience working with or providing services to enterprise customers (Fortune 500, Global 1000) 
• Experience working with React, Node.js or Python
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB or SQL Server
• 4+ years of experience with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Experience working on public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and associated deep understanding of failover, high-availability, and high scalability
• 2+ years of experience working with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or Helm)
• Mobile development experience preferred
• Experience with UI/UX analytics platforms for engagement analysis (Amplitude, Mixpanel, Google Analytics)

Irrespective of an individual’s specific background, the successful candidate will be: 

• Collaborative – someone who knows how to work with and through others to drive results and make change happen, as well is customer service orientated
• Entrepreneurial, proactive, and productive -  someone who knows how to prioritize what needs to be done and rallies colleagues to get things accomplished; “roll up the sleeves” type of attitude
• Bright – both insightful and creative, with strong problem-solving skills and pragmatic, with a practical, “real-world” sense of what is actually “do-able”. Possesses an affinity for data-driven insights to make decisions, and able to harness knowledge and expertise of the best content to support the Practice
• Articulate and compelling in his/her oral and written communication skills; engaging and concise – with interpersonal “presence”; adaptable across executive, technical and Bain audiences
• Energetic, with drive, enthusiasm, and natural skills in relationship development; well-connected, with an extensive network of potentially relevant relationships
• Inspirational Leadership - track record of managing high-performing, service-oriented team members, motivating and developing colleagues above and below their own tenure
• A great colleague and teammate - passionate about the task at hand and fun to be around; someone with whom Bainies and clients go out of their way to work

ABOUT US

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 59 offices in 37 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest over $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial and social equity, economic development and the environment. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients. We proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry, and our clients have outperformed the stock market 4-to-1.