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. 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.

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.

WHAT YOU'LL DO As an Expert Manager, Software Engineering, you will lead the development and building of software applications that address complex business and technology problems in various industries. You will guide a diverse engineering team through the entire engineering life cycle.

Your responsibilities will include designing, developing, optimizing, and deploying cutting-edge software engineering solutions and infrastructure at the production scale required by the world's largest companies, with a strong focus on ensuring technical delivery supports business strategy, operating model evolution, and sustainable value creation. Work with Bain consulting teams and product owners to translate business problems into prioritized backlogs and technical roadmaps for cross-functional engineering squads Own full-stack design & build. Lead the architecture, development and documentation of AI applications, including coding and integrating third-party services or frameworks that accelerate delivery and long-term maintainability Establish AI-native software engineering best practices.

Define and enforce standards around component libraries/design systems, automated testing, linting, CI/CD,



accessibility and performance optimization Create and curate shared code assets that reduce time-to-value across multiple client projects and internal initiatives. Set quality gates, supervise code reviews, ensure robust unit/integration test coverage, manage release planning, and oversee post-deployment monitoring and incident resolution Partner on UI/UX excellence. Provide day-to-day technical coaching for senior and mid-level engineers through pair programming, architecture sessions and constructive feedback Upskill client engineering teams.

Coach client developers on modern tooling and DevOps/cloud-native practices, ensuring sustainable ownership after Bain's engagement Share lessons learned and emerging technology trends through internal forums, brown-bag sessions and knowledge assets Participate in interviewing, technical assessments and mentoring of new hires to build a high-caliber engineering cohort 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 Technical Skills & Knowledge Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field 6+ years of end-to-end experience designing, building and maintaining production-grade full-stack applications 4+ years building server-side services using FastAPI, Node.js/Express, Flask, Django, .NET Core or Java Spring Boot or similar technologies,



including the design of APIs 3+ years of architecting and operating micro-service ecosystems, emphasizing service discovery, observability, CI/CD automation and blue-/green or canary deployments Experience with cloud-native delivery on AWS, Azure or GCP, knowledge of managed services, serverless patterns and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform, CloudFormation or Bicep Proficient with containerization and orchestration, Docker, Kubernetes and related tooling (Helm, Argo CD) Experience with database architecture across relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) and NoSQL/document stores (MongoDB, DynamoDB, Redis), with solid SQL skills Solid computer science fundamentals, data structures, algorithms, object-oriented and functional paradigms, automated testing, performance profiling Excellence in software architecture design, including modular, distributed, and cloud-native systems, scalability, resiliency, maintainability, and observability Experience with data security, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, SSO/cloud IAM, encryption in transit, at rest, and awareness of data protection regulations. Ideally, experience with modern AI/ML development, working with LLM APIs, prompt engineering, RAG pipelines, agentic SDKs and AI safety Ideally, hands-on experience with modern web technologies such as React, Angular, Vue.js, TypeScript, HTML5 and CSS3 Proven leader and mentor with ability to lead engineering squads, set coding standards, perform rigorous code reviews and up skill junior engineers.

Agile delivery mindset, practical experience with Scrum or Kanban, story-point estimation, backlog grooming and the use of Git-based workflows, Jira and automated CI/CD pipelines. Fluency in English. Minimum business fluent Spanish for Iberia Ability to collaborate with people at all levels and with multi-office/region teams

📌 Expert Manager, Software Engineering (Full Stack) (Madrid)
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📍 Madrid