Senior Engineer, TSG Software Engineering

COMPANY PROFILE
Bain & Company is one of the top management consulting firms in the world that helps the world’s most ambitious changemakers 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, outperforming 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.
The firm established several functions in the Indian market early 2000s and its remit across functions has expanded over time. Since 2019, these functions have become part of Global Business Services (GBS). Global Business Services (GBS) is a network of five interconnected business functions hubs across India, Poland, Malaysia, Mexico and Portugal, serving Bain globally to run our business, support other functions, and help drive innovation internally. We are over 1000 business professionals – serving functions in operations, HR, finance, legal, tech, marketing, research, and data analytics – who support our offices globally. Our mantra of “shared innovation, seamless execution,” underpinned by a passion for results, teamwork, and creativity, helps Bain stay at the top of our game operationally.
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
This position works as a member of an Agile/scrum software development team focused exclusively on building and supporting Bain’s most strategic internal software systems. Team members work collaboratively to design, build and implement new features and functionality in their systems aimed at delivering the most value to Bain’s global users and supporting key business initiatives. Systems developed are primarily enterprise-scale browser based or mobile applications developed with current Microsoft development languages and technologies, with a global user base and integration points with one or more other internal Bain systems.
WHERE YOU’LL FIT WITHIN THE TEAM
A senior engineer is a senior role in Software Agile delivery team. The person is responsible for managing and executing the complex software modules almost independently. Additionally, the indvidual is responsible of guding and mentoring junior engineers in the team from technology standpoint.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Technical Delivery (75%)
Work with teams developing and updating enterprise applications.
Work as a member of an agile software development team with full participation in all Agile team events and activities.
Work on tasks supporting the development of more complex components or functions with special requirements within a sprint. Understand the technical interdependencies between stories and support Engineering Manager and Product Owner with sequencing.
Demonstrate working knowledge of business and domain. Supports Engineering Manager and Product Owner in defining product roadmap and backlog by providing technical input.
Work in collaboration with other team members on an agile team to analyze user stories, perform task breakdown, and define technical approach and complete committed tasks as per sprint schedule.
Demonstrate good understanding of using the underlying application development infrastructure and suggest improvements to optimize the infrastructure.
Participate in the design, architecting and prototyping of applications and significant application upgrades working with more senior agile team members and Engineering Manager.
Prepare work estimates for committed components with minimal support from senior team members.
Write unit test plans for committed components. Execute and confirm successful completion of unit tests as part of the criteria for completion. In addition, support unit testing by other team members.
Contribute to planning and participate in the testing and release of application releases.
Provide ongoing support for applications already in use. This includes problem diagnosis and resolution, ad hoc reporting support and database administration.
Demonstrate ability to acquire new skills e.g. creating automation tests using selenium, creating UX designs, DevOps, performing functional/ load testing etc. through internal/ external trainings to be a T-Shaped team member helping the team in achieving sprint goals.
Follow Bain development project process and standards in completing committed tasks and modules and contribute to the continual evolution of processes and standards.
Write technical documentation as required.
Research (10%)
Contribute to evaluating and employing new and/or supplemental technologies necessary to deliver functionality for a given software application.
Contribute to the research and evaluation of new tools and technologies beyond current product requirements that are likely to be used in future initiatives. Help and possibly lead the presentation of findings and recommendations to the full Software Development team.
Participate in internal skill development by sharing concepts and technologies with the full Software Development team.
Communication (10%)
Ability to present the technical findings and recommendations to the leadership and Software Development team in general.
Clearly communicates impediments to completing a story and ensures clear understanding of definition of ‘done’.
Provide input during sprint retrospective to improve team experience.
Demonstrate assertion in communication while working with team and stakeholders during cucial conversations.
Technical mentoring (5%)
Provide technical guidance to junior members. Help create a culture of transparency and sustainability.
ABOUT YOU
Demonstrated knowledge of agile software development methodologies and processes
Demonstrated record of strong performance in prior software development positions,
Strong communication and customer service skills
Ability to deliver assigned module/ work with much support from senior engineers with Zero D.
Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
Experience developing enterprise scale applications
Demonstrated knowledge of agile software development methodologies and processes.
Demonstrated record of strong performance in prior software development positions.
Strong communication and customer service skills
Strong analytic and problem-solving skills
Demonstrated record of T shape behavior to expedite delivery by managing conflicts/ contingencies
Bachelor’s or equivalent degree
5-8+ years of relevant experience
Software Engineering - Technical skills:
Frameworks: .NET & .NET Core
Languages: C#, Python, T-SQL
Web frameworks/ Lib: React, Angular, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, etc.
RDBMS: Microsoft SQL Server
NoSQL databases: MongoDB, Cosmos, etc.
Vector databases: Azure AI Search, Pinecone, pgvector, etc.
Cloud: Microsoft Azure Services
GenAI & ML: Azure OpenAI, LLM integration and prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, embeddings, machine learning model development and deployment
AI coding assistants: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code
Search engine: Elasticsearch, Coveo, etc.
Caching: Redis, MemCache
Unit testing: XUnit, Jasmine, etc.
DevOps: GitActions