Lead, Software Engineering

Bain & Company; Lisboa; Presencial; EUR 80 000 - 110 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Bain & Company in Portugal seeks a Lead, Software Engineering to design, build, and deploy sophisticated software solutions at production scale for global clients.

You will lead end-to-end delivery, mentor teammates, and partner with cross-functional teams in an agile, data-driven environment. Travel required; in-person collaboration expected multiple days weekly.

Qualificações

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience.
• 3+ years at Senior or Staff level, or equivalent.
• Fluency in English; business-level Spanish for Iberia.

Responsabilidades

• Collaborate with consulting teams to identify software solutions addressing client problems.
• Serve as technical lead for end-to-end client case solutions, from architecture to hands-on development.
• Design distributed systems, review documentation, and conduct code reviews.
• Develop reusable frameworks, models, and components across industries.
• Mentor junior team members and stay current with cloud and software trends.
• Travel regionally as needed; work three days a week in person.

Conhecimentos

Python

Agile methodologies

Communication

Formação académica

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Ferramentas

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Terraform

React

Angular

Vue.js

HTML

CSS

Descrição da oferta de emprego

What Makes Us a Great Place To Work

We are proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world's best places to work. We are currently the top ranked consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list and have earned the #1 overall spot a record seven times.

Extraordinary teams are at the heart of our business strategy, but these don't happen by chance. They require intentional focus on bringing together a broad set of backgrounds, cultures, experiences, perspectives, and skills in a supportive and inclusive work environment. We hire people with exceptional talent and create an environment in which every individual can thrive professionally and personally.

Who You’ll Work With

You’ll join our Engineering Experts within the AI, Insights & Solutions team. This team is part of Bain’s digital capabilities practice, which includes experts in analytics, engineering, product management, and design. In this multidisciplinary environment, you'll leverage deep technical expertise with business acumen to help clients tackle their most transformative challenges. You’ll work on integrated teams alongside our general consultants and clients to develop data-driven strategies and innovative solutions. Together, we create human-centric solutions that harness the power of data and artificial intelligence to drive competitive advantage for our clients. Our collaborative and supportive work environment fosters creativity and continuous learning, enabling us to consistently deliver exceptional results.

What You'll Do

As a Lead, Software Engineering, you will leverage your experience to implement and refine technical solutions for a wide range of industries. Working with a diverse team, you will engage in the entire engineering life cycle, focusing on designing, developing, optimizing, and deploying sophisticated software engineering solutions and infrastructure at a production scale suitable for the world’s largest companies. This is an individual contributor role, with some responsibility for mentoring junior team members.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with and influence general consulting teams to identify software solutions to client business problems, to prioritize and execute those solutions
• Serve as a technical lead in delivering end-to-end solutions for client cases (from solution architecture to hands-on development work)
• Participate in the software development life cycle including designing distributed systems, reviewing documentation, and conducting code reviews
• Participate in expert client advisory services that require expertise in software engineering with distributed systems, AI and application architecture
• Collaborate on the development of reusable common frameworks, models, and components to efficiently address common software engineering challenges across various industries and business functions
• Champion best demonstrated practices in software engineering, and share learnings with team members in AIS about theoretical and technical developments in software engineering
• Lead industry-leading innovations that translate into great impact for our clients in case work
• Influence, educate and directly support the software engineering capabilities of our clients
• Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in cloud computing, data analysis, and software engineering, and proactively identify opportunities to enhance the capabilities of the software platform
• This role requires a minimum of three days per week working together in person, either at a client location or at your Bain home office.
• Travel is required. This position requires regional travel away from your home office/primary working location. Travel frequency and destinations will vary based on project needs.

About You

Education & Experience

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• 5 years minimum experience
• 3+ years at Senior or Staff level, or equivalent
• Fluency in English. Minimum business fluent Spanish for Iberia

Technical Skills And Knowledge

• Working knowledge (4+ years) of Python
• Experience with server-side frameworks and technologies such as FastAPI, Node.js, Flask.
• Experience with Cloud platforms and services (AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.)
• Experience with data architecture, database schema design, database scalability and SQL
• Experience with implementation of large-scale structured or unstructured databases, orchestration and container technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins or Terraform
• Strong computer science fundaments in data structures, algorithms, automated testing, object-oriented programming, performance complexity, and implications of computer architecture on software performance.
• Experience with data architecture, database schema design, database scalability and SQL
• Ideally, experience with client-side technologies such as React, Angular, Vue.js, HTML and CSS
• Knowledge of agile development methodologies and principles

Interpersonal Skills

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, including the ability to explain and discuss technicalities of solutions, algorithms and techniques with colleagues and clients from other disciplines
• Curiosity, proactivity and critical thinking
• Ability to collaborate with people at all levels and with multi-office/region teams

Other Experience

• Relevant professional hands-on experience in web development, programming languages, version control, software design pattern, infrastructure and deployment, integration and unit testing implementation