McKinsey & Company Looking for Front-end Software Developer at New York, United States Full Time

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science or equivalent, or more than 5 years practical experience
• 3+ years of career experience developing in Javascript/Typescript and working with css; React experience preferred
• 1+ years of experience in back-end development; Node, Python, or Java preferred (can be concurrent with front-end experience)
• 1+ years of experience with data visualization libraries such as d3 or Recharts preferred
• Proficiency with the command line (Mac OS or Linux)
• Enthusiasm for learning new techniques, languages, and architecture
• Communication skills and work ethic geared to working in a remote environment
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Distinct customer focus and quality mindset
• Strong design instincts and an eye for detail
• Exposure to AWS cloud architecture preferred

What You’ll Do

You’ll build products designed to analyze the characteristics and experience of our firm’s people. You’ll be working with a cross-functional team of talented developers, data engineers, business intelligence analysts, designers and product managers that are responsible for the strategy, development and maintenance of the People Analytics and Measurement team’s expanding product landscape.

You will be using React, typescript, and css to maintain and extend the code which runs our product portfolio as we work predominantly with a unified code base, which can power multiple products based on changes in configuration. You will be developing modules for this system as new visualizations or modifications are required. You will also be using tools like Storybook and Cypress to validate the module’s behavior and aside from building modules, there may be core features that need to be developed, such as filter and search functions. You will also have opportunities to work in other front-end code bases, as we partner with other teams when needed.

You will also work on APIs or server-side rendered applications from time to time and you will need to be comfortable contributing across the full stack. You will be pairing with and mentoring developers with diverse backgrounds and varying technical abilities. You will also be encouraged to contribute on general problem solving, such as architectural and performance decisions.

Who You’ll Work With

At McKinsey & Company, our most valuable resource is our people. As such, we’ve built a world class People Analytics and Measurement team to optimize people management and facilitate data-driven decision making. The goal of our group is to use data analytics to help improve employee satisfaction, team structure, recruiting decisions, and many other high impact use cases.

The People Analytics team is globally respected as a leader in its field, and is dedicated to staying on the cutting edge of business intelligence and data science methodology and technology. You’ll get in-depth exposure to new methodologies through hands-on client projects, e-learning, live boot camps and global analytics conferences.