Senior Software Engineer - Strategy & Corporate Finance
McKinsey & Company
Software Engineering, Accounting & Finance
Lisbon, Portugal
Posted on Feb 25, 2025
Senior Software Engineer - Strategy & Corporate Finance
Job ID: 95235
Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.
Your Impact
You will develop and enhance B2B and consumer-grade products that deliver tangible business impact, working across the full stack with Golang, Python, or TypeScript while managing SQL/NoSQL databases.
You will architect and scale applications on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud using Docker and Terraform, uphold best engineering practices, and collaborate closely with business and product teams to transform complex challenges into innovative technical solutions.
Leveraging advanced AI technologies, you will continuously learn in finance, corporate strategy, or emerging tech, thriving in an Agile environment where adaptability and problem-solving are essential.
Your Growth
Join our Strategy & Corporate Finance team in Lisbon and help redefine how companies create value. At McKinsey, we blend cutting-edge analytics, design thinking, and tech to drive real impact. Our McKinsey Value Intelligence team is at the forefront of this shift—building powerful software in collaboration with practice experts that help leaders cut through the noise and focus on what truly drives performance. By combining deep financial analytics with McKinsey’s corporate finance expertise, we give our colleagues and clients the insights they need at scale, to unlock growth, optimize strategy, and maximize shareholder value.
Our McKinsey Value Intelligence team is a high-impact engineering and analytics squad. We operate on a microservices architecture, and encourage our colleagues to use the best technology for the job - whether it's Snowflake, AWS, Postgres, MongoDB, Golang, Python, TypeScript, React, or anything else well suited. We’re building tools that cut through complexity, and perform under heavy usage. If you love tackling tough challenges with smart, passionate teammates, this is the place to be.
Your qualifications and skills
- Familiarity or proficiency in React, Angular, or another frontend framework (experience with at least two)
- Ability to define user interfaces, components, and data structures to meet specified requirements
- Capable of quickly ramping up on new frontend frameworks and delivering quality output
- Experience with backend frameworks (e.g., Express, Flask, Django, FastAPI, Golang)
- Proven ability to design robust APIs and backend services that scale efficiently
- Hands-on experience with SQL (Postgres, Snowflake) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases, including writing complex queries, stored procedures, views, and optimizing performance
- Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, including deploying applications and managing cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, including serverless computing, microservices, and containerized deployments (Docker)
- Experience following cloud deployment best practices, leveraging infrastructure as code (Terraform) and troubleshooting cloud environments
- Ability to work independently with stakeholders, providing thought leadership on tech stack decisions and architectural trade-offs
- Strong problem-solving skills, adaptability, and ability to work in high-paced environments
- Excellent communication skills, capable of explaining technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Fluent in English (both written and verbal)
Please review the additional requirements regarding essential job functions of McKinsey colleagues.
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Job Skill Code - SCOB - Software Engineer II
Function - Strategy & Corporate Finance
Industry - Financial Services
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Posted to LinkedIn Date - Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 GMT 2025
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Job Skill Code - SCOB - Software Engineer II
Function - Strategy & Corporate Finance
Industry - Financial Services
Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Tue Feb 18 00:00:00 GMT 2025
LinkedIn Posting City - Lisbon
LinkedIn Posting State/Province -
LinkedIn Posting Country - Portugal
LinkedIn Job Title - Senior Software Engineer - Strategy & Corporate Finance
LinkedIn Function - Engineering;Information Technology;Product Management
LinkedIn Industry - Computer & Network Security;Computer Networking;Computer Software
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Mid-Senior level