Senior Cloud Engineer - Contracts.AI

McKinsey & Company, Inc.; Wrocław; On-site; PLN 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A global management consulting firm seeks a Software Engineer for their Ops Tech Enablement team in Wrocław. You will be involved in developing high-quality cloud-native software products for B2B use, leveraging skills in languages like Python, C#, and Typescript. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are required. This role offers comprehensive benefits and opportunities for growth in a diverse environment.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Continuous learning and mentorship

Global community exposure

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in software engineering.
• Strong application development skills in modern languages.
• Experience with implementing cloud-native software solutions.

Responsibilities

• Write cloud-native software for B2B products.
• Lead technical development components.
• Contribute code and participate in code reviews.

Skills

Software Engineering

Cloud-native software solutions

B2B product development

Agile engineering practices

Python

C#

Typescript

React

.NET

SQL and No-SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Your Growth

Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you’ll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning:Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters:From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community:With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• World‑class benefits:On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well‑being for you and your family.

Your Impact

You’ll work with the Ops Tech Enablement team in the biggest functional practice in the firm, focusing on client operations (e.g., supply chain, procurement, product development) improvement, based in or Wroclaw office.

McKinsey fosters innovation driven by analytics, design thinking, mobile and social by developing new products/services and integrating them into our client work. It is helping to shift our model toward asset‑based consulting and is a foundation for –and expands our investment in –our entrepreneurial culture. Through innovative software as a service solution, strategic acquisitions, and a vibrant ecosystem of alliances, we are redefining what it means to work with McKinsey.

Ops Tech Enablement team supports a portfolio of 12 successful assets leveraging benchmarking capabilities, machine learning and data visualization to provide insights into client situation and performance. You will join our community mixing people with business and technical background.

You will be a strong individual contributor to a development team building a high‑quality software product. These products are leveraging firm IP to deliver impact to our clients, either during client study or to sustain good practices developed during the engagement.

You’ll be writing cloud‑native software for the development of B2B (enterprise) products for the use of our clients. As part of a development team, you’ll be expected to take the lead in specific technical development components and influence product design and technical architecture based on your experience. You will use your skills to deliver mature, well‑tested software that meets high standards for maintainable, adaptable, scalable and secure software.

You will be an active learner, identifying new open‑source libraries and approaches to solve complex problems, and you’ll have the opportunity to use unfamiliar technologies and learn new programming languages to meet technical requirements. You will leverage your strong understanding of key agile engineering practices to model ideal participation within agile teams and contribute to growing and improving our engineering practices.

You will also contribute code and participate in code reviews, facilitate breaking down user stories into technical tasks, and help manage the process by which code is delivered and its quality. At times, you will need to provide advanced debugging and support for production/live software deployments. Furthermore, you’ll communicate technical and delivery risks to the team and elevate to management when appropriate.

Your qualifications and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent area
• 4+ years of experience in Software Engineering
• Experience with building B2B and consumer quality products, enabling business capability and objectives through technology
• Strong application development skills, including experience in modern technology languages such Python, C# and Typescript, additional familiarity with frameworks like React and .NET, SQL and No‑SQL databases
• Experience in implementing cloud‑native software solutions on AWS, Azure and/or GCP with hands‑on experience debugging complex distributed systems using cloud‑native observability tooling, experience with cloud‑native architecture design a plus
• Experience in developing software utilizing both serverless (e.g., Lambda, Azure Functions) and container (e.g., Docker / Kubernetes) technologies
• Experience in engineering practices such as code refactoring, test driven development, design driven development, continuous integration, building highly scalable applications, application security, and building maintainable code
• Experience in implementing GenAI capabilities with cloud‑native software using modern frameworks (e.g., langchain, lammaindex) a plus
• Knowledge of Agile software development process; Familiarity with testing frameworks such as RSpec, JUnit or Selenium
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills paired with the ability to develop creative and efficient solutions
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid changes common in early‑stage product development
• Strong command of English language (both verbal and written)