Software Engineer - Strategy & Corporate Finance
McKinsey & Company
Software Engineering, Accounting & Finance
Lisbon, Portugal
Posted on Feb 25, 2025
Software Engineer - Strategy & Corporate Finance
Job ID: 95233
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 drive business impact by designing and optimizing scalable B2B and consumer-grade products, leveraging Golang, Python, or TypeScript, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and AI technologies to enhance performance, efficiency, and innovation while fostering collaboration and best engineering practices in an Agile environment.
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 one)
- Capable of quickly ramping up on new frontend frameworks and delivering quality output
- Experience with backend frameworks (e.g., Express, Flask, Django, FastAPI, Golang)
- Understanding of basic database setup, including user and role creation, query optimization, and indexing
- Experience working with SQL (Postgres, Snowflake) and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases
- Basic understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), key cloud services, and infrastructure as code (Terraform)
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, including serverless computing, microservices, and containerized deployments (Docker)
- Ability to write high-quality, functional code with proper documentation
- Strong problem-solving skills, curiosity, and a growth mindset
- Comfortable working in Agile development environments
- Effective communication skills, able to work collaboratively across teams
- 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 Group - N/A
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
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LinkedIn Posting Country - Portugal
LinkedIn Job Title - 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
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 - 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