Principal Software Engineer I - Periscope

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, which includes medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse / partner, and children.

You will provide strong technical leadership to design, build, deliver and maintain enterprise software applications and services. In this role, you will be responsible for full software lifecycle including activities starting from requirement analysis to design, development, implementation and support.

You will aid in continuous improvement by fostering the culture of innovation in the teams to improve quality, application performance, productivity and team efficiency. You will show your proven ability to build a world class software development team and talent management by attracting, hiring, developing and retaining the best talent.

You will help grow engineers’ skills, experience and confidence through regular one-on-one meetings, coaching, actionable feedback, work and peer alignment, and career advocacy. You will empower engineers to solve problems, fostering a balance of velocity and rigor through scalable, asynchronous decision-making practices. You will lead, improve, and steward engineering practices (technical design, implementation, release, and iteration) for our working groups to minimize developer friction and blockages.

You will communicate regularly with stakeholders and adjacent teams to build a shared understanding and accommodation of competing priorities. You will support and guide other people managers at Periscope as a member of our young engineering management discipline.

You will be an active member of the engineering leadership team in Periscope and a proactive agent for improvement changes across the periscope organization.

You’ll work with our Periscope team in Bangalore or Gurugram. Periscope is a part of McKinsey Marketing & Sales practice.

You’ll be a member of Periscope’s technology team. Periscope is the asset-based arm of McKinsey’s Marketing & Sales practice and is at the leading edge of the new ways we serve clients. This integrated model of serving clients, i.e. combining our generalist consulting approaches with the solutions, is proof of the firm’s commitment to continue our innovation in the spirit of bringing the best of the firm to our clients.

Periscope® by McKinsey enables better commercial decisions by uncovering actionable insights. The Periscope platform combines world leading intellectual property, prescriptive analytics, and cloud-based tools to provide more than 25 solutions focused on insights and marketing, with expert support and training. It is a unique combination that drives revenue growth both now and in the future. Customer experience, performance, pricing, category, and sales optimization are powered by the Periscope platform. Periscope has a presence in 26 locations across 16 countries with a team of 1000+ business and IT professionals and a network of 300+ experts. To learn more about how Periscope’s solutions and experts are helping businesses continually drive better performance, visit