Golang Job: Software Engineer

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Location

Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

Job type

Full-Time

Golang Job Details

Who You'll Work With

You’ll work with McKinsey Digital in one of our Brazil offices.
As part of this group, you’ll join a global team working on everything from IT modernization and strategy to agile, cloud, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. Digital McKinsey brings together the best of McKinsey’s digital capabilities to help our clients use digital technology to transform their businesses.
You’ll typically work on projects across all industries and functions and will be fully integrated with the rest of our global firm. You’ll also work with colleagues from across McKinsey & Company to help our clients deliver breakthrough products, experiences, and businesses, both on technology and non-technology topics.
Our office culture is casual and social, with an emphasis on education and innovation. We have the freedom to try new ideas, experiment and are expected to be constantly learning and growing. There is also a strong emphasis on mentoring others in the group, enabling them to grow and learn.

What You'll Do

You will be a core member of the Digital McKinsey consulting team with responsibilities that range from shaping and implementing strategic products to ensuring that McKinsey’s craft stays on the leading edge of technology.
In this role, you will assist in the solution development and/or operational activities. You will also evaluate and recommend tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality product. You will be involved in agile implementation and transformation projects with our clients. You will develop new products to take to our clients, identifying new open source libraries, using unfamiliar technologies and learning new programming languages to meet technical requirements.
You will have a strong understanding of key agile engineering practices to guide teams and contribute to growing and improving our engineering practices. You will help your team build better engineering practices, building on our automated testing and continuous integration practices. You will be an active learner, tinkering with new open source libraries and using emerging technologies. You will provide leadership in the development and strategic direction of new products, processes, technologies.
You will be passionate about secure coding practices, code quality and good engineering practices such as test-driven development, clean code, automated testing and deployments, continuous integration and continuous deployment etc. Our development teams are small, flexible and employ agile methodologies to quickly provide our consultants with the solutions they need. We combine the latest open source technologies together with traditional Enterprise software products.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or comparable area of study
  • 5+ years of experience in software development
  • Experience in a high-level programming/scripting language/s (Python, Golang, JavaScript, Java, C++)
  • Java, .Net, Ruby on Rails and/or PHP coding experience
  • JavaScript MVC framework experience such as React JS, Backbone or Node JS
  • Experience with containerization technology, cloud computing services and web services especially in REST API and tools
  • Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment; ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization
  • Ability to communicate with cross-functional teams about various engineering topics such as system architecture, detailed design, APIs, project schedules etc.
  • Skills to communicate complex ideas effectively in English