Job Description
ABOUT US
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1+73, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
Bain’s Global Engineering leads the firm’s software development efforts and defines engineering standards for Bain globally. The team ships software solutions to address client and internal needs, ranging from iterative prototypes to enterprise-grade production software.
You will solve cutting-edge problems for a variety of industries as a software engineer specializing in building applications that leverage the best of cloud and Gen AI technologies. As a member of a diverse engineering team, you will participate in the full engineering life cycle which includes designing, developing, optimizing, and deploying new software solutions at the world’s largest companies.
You will collaborate with diverse product and engineering teams to build scalable applications to support business needs for both consumer and enterprise environments.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
• Participate within a cross-functional product team including architects and domain experts on technical discovery work, software architecture and design.
• Play an advisory role to senior client stakeholders on all aspects of the software development lifecycle, build-vs-buy decisioning and engineering excellence evaluation.
• Work with vendors/SI partners and other solution providers to orchestrate and build end-to-end software solutions at production quality.
• Design and help build reusable libraries and software components to accelerate the delivery of client solutions.
• Develop and champion modern software development best practices and concepts to technical audience and business stakeholders.
• Take the lead in designing, developing, and documenting full stack application software; evaluating third-party software products for integration as needed
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities and develop use cases for leveraging Gen AI ecosystem of models to address specific business challenges, and improve customer experiences.
• Integrate Generative AI capabilities and services, Open APIs, and proprietary machine learning models to meet use cases and enhance the capabilities of existing or new applications.
• Participate in the full software development life cycle including architecture design, writing documentation and unit/integration tests, identifying issues and resolution, writing clean code, conducting code reviews, and mentoring other Engineers
• Occasional travel is required (~20%)
Scope, architect, design, develop, build, and release robust and scalable applications with clients and external partners (60%):
• Design and architect solution to meet business requirements.
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements and implementation details
• Complex systems that are extensible, easy to understand, and self-maintaining.
• Integration with third-party systems to enable use cases that power business solutions.
• Work closely with web designers and developers to create modern UI/UX web applications.
• Design and develop standardized application frameworks to support a variety of applications.
• Provide technical guidance to external clients and internal stakeholders in Bain (40%):
• Explore new technical innovations in the application development to further improve performance and modularity.
• Advise and coach engineering teams on technology stack best practices and operational models to raise their software engineering capabilities.
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks (technical, people and timelines) at multiple levels
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
• Take an active role in ideation processes, alongside consulting and client colleagues, to bring innovative solutions to problems
• Lead engagements that help to understand current state of clients’ technical infrastructure, build processes, security needs, etc.
• Work in a collaborative manner with clients’ technical teams to define technical approaches to implementing designed solutions, including new product architecture, data flows and integration strategies, build processes, etc.
ABOUT YOU
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent work experience
• Experience in an engineering role at a start-up or fast-growing tech company, with a strong track record of increasing mastery and responsibility
• 8+ years of experience with web and mobile application development
• 8+ years of experience with server-side application development
• 1+ years of working experience of application development leveraging Gen AI, including key LLM concepts such as embeddings, storage/retrieval/search with vector databases, Prompt Engineering, integrations and a sound understanding of associated cloud services.
• Strong computer science fundaments in data structures, algorithms, automated testing, object-oriented programming, performance complexity, and implications of computer architecture on software performance.
• Up to date knowledge on architecture design and application development with multiple Gen AI model types, both commercial and custom, leveraging text, image and video.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills,
• Strong knowledge in designing and maintaining APIs (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC).
• Strong knowledge in application deployments in the cloud using CI/CD development process.
• Knowledge in DB schema designs.
• Agile development methodology.
• Version control and git workflows.
Ideal candidates will also have experience in:
• Masters in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience working with or providing services to enterprise customers (Fortune 500, Global 1000)
• Experience working with React, Node.js or Python
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB or SQL Server
• 4+ years of experience with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of low-code/no-code platforms that support Gen AI integrations out of the box
• Experience working on public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and associated deep understanding of failover, high-availability, and high scalability
• 2+ years of experience working with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or Helm)
• Ability to explain and discuss technical concepts and methodologies with colleagues and clients from other disciplines.
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, a champion of diversity and a model of social responsibility. We are currently ranked the #1 consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list, and we have maintained a spot in the top four on Glassdoor's list for the last 13 years. We believe that diversity, inclusion and collaboration is key to building extraordinary teams. We hire people with exceptional talents, abilities and potential, then create an environment where you can become the best version of yourself and thrive both professionally and personally. We are publicly recognized by external parties such as Fortune, Vault, Mogul, Working Mother, Glassdoor and the Human Rights Campaign for being a great place to work for diversity and inclusion, women, LGBTQ and parents
Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1+73, we have measured our success by the success of our clients, and we proudly maintain the highest level of client advocacy in the industry.
WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH
Bain’s Global Engineering leads the firm’s software development efforts and defines engineering standards for Bain globally. The team ships software solutions to address client and internal needs, ranging from iterative prototypes to enterprise-grade production software.
You will solve cutting-edge problems for a variety of industries as a software engineer specializing in building applications that leverage the best of cloud and Gen AI technologies. As a member of a diverse engineering team, you will participate in the full engineering life cycle which includes designing, developing, optimizing, and deploying new software solutions at the world’s largest companies.
You will collaborate with diverse product and engineering teams to build scalable applications to support business needs for both consumer and enterprise environments.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
• Participate within a cross-functional product team including architects and domain experts on technical discovery work, software architecture and design.
• Play an advisory role to senior client stakeholders on all aspects of the software development lifecycle, build-vs-buy decisioning and engineering excellence evaluation.
• Work with vendors/SI partners and other solution providers to orchestrate and build end-to-end software solutions at production quality.
• Design and help build reusable libraries and software components to accelerate the delivery of client solutions.
• Develop and champion modern software development best practices and concepts to technical audience and business stakeholders.
• Take the lead in designing, developing, and documenting full stack application software; evaluating third-party software products for integration as needed
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities and develop use cases for leveraging Gen AI ecosystem of models to address specific business challenges, and improve customer experiences.
• Integrate Generative AI capabilities and services, Open APIs, and proprietary machine learning models to meet use cases and enhance the capabilities of existing or new applications.
• Participate in the full software development life cycle including architecture design, writing documentation and unit/integration tests, identifying issues and resolution, writing clean code, conducting code reviews, and mentoring other Engineers
• Occasional travel is required (~20%)
Scope, architect, design, develop, build, and release robust and scalable applications with clients and external partners (60%):
• Design and architect solution to meet business requirements.
• Translate business requirements into technical requirements and implementation details
• Complex systems that are extensible, easy to understand, and self-maintaining.
• Integration with third-party systems to enable use cases that power business solutions.
• Work closely with web designers and developers to create modern UI/UX web applications.
• Design and develop standardized application frameworks to support a variety of applications.
• Provide technical guidance to external clients and internal stakeholders in Bain (40%):
• Explore new technical innovations in the application development to further improve performance and modularity.
• Advise and coach engineering teams on technology stack best practices and operational models to raise their software engineering capabilities.
• Identify, assess, track and mitigate issues and risks (technical, people and timelines) at multiple levels
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make trade-offs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints
• Take an active role in ideation processes, alongside consulting and client colleagues, to bring innovative solutions to problems
• Lead engagements that help to understand current state of clients’ technical infrastructure, build processes, security needs, etc.
• Work in a collaborative manner with clients’ technical teams to define technical approaches to implementing designed solutions, including new product architecture, data flows and integration strategies, build processes, etc.
ABOUT YOU
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science or a related technical field; or equivalent work experience
• Experience in an engineering role at a start-up or fast-growing tech company, with a strong track record of increasing mastery and responsibility
• 8+ years of experience with web and mobile application development
• 8+ years of experience with server-side application development
• 1+ years of working experience of application development leveraging Gen AI, including key LLM concepts such as embeddings, storage/retrieval/search with vector databases, Prompt Engineering, integrations and a sound understanding of associated cloud services.
• Strong computer science fundaments in data structures, algorithms, automated testing, object-oriented programming, performance complexity, and implications of computer architecture on software performance.
• Up to date knowledge on architecture design and application development with multiple Gen AI model types, both commercial and custom, leveraging text, image and video.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills,
• Strong knowledge in designing and maintaining APIs (RESTful, GraphQL, gRPC).
• Strong knowledge in application deployments in the cloud using CI/CD development process.
• Knowledge in DB schema designs.
• Agile development methodology.
• Version control and git workflows.
Ideal candidates will also have experience in:
• Masters in Computer Science or a related technical field.
• Experience working with or providing services to enterprise customers (Fortune 500, Global 1000)
• Experience working with React, Node.js or Python
• Experience with PostgreSQL, MongoDB or SQL Server
• 4+ years of experience with SQL or NoSQL databases
• Knowledge of low-code/no-code platforms that support Gen AI integrations out of the box
• Experience working on public cloud environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and associated deep understanding of failover, high-availability, and high scalability
• 2+ years of experience working with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, or Helm)
• Ability to explain and discuss technical concepts and methodologies with colleagues and clients from other disciplines.
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, a champion of diversity and a model of social responsibility. We are currently ranked the #1 consulting firm on Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work list, and we have maintained a spot in the top four on Glassdoor's list for the last 13 years. We believe that diversity, inclusion and collaboration is key to building extraordinary teams. We hire people with exceptional talents, abilities and potential, then create an environment where you can become the best version of yourself and thrive both professionally and personally. We are publicly recognized by external parties such as Fortune, Vault, Mogul, Working Mother, Glassdoor and the Human Rights Campaign for being a great place to work for diversity and inclusion, women, LGBTQ and parents
💡 Quick Summary
Seeking a career-building opportunity? The Staff Software Engineer I| Application| Global Engineering position is now open for candidates interested in the IT Engineer & Developer Jobs sector. This role in Gurgaon offers a professional environment and growth potential.
Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in IT Engineer & Developer Jobs is a plus.
