Who We Are
Boston Consulting Group partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. BCG was the pioneer in business strategy when it was founded in 1963. Today, we help clients with total transformation-inspiring complex change, enabling organizations to grow, building competitive advantage, and driving bottom-line impact.
To succeed, organizations must blend digital and human capabilities. Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting along with technology and design, corporate and digital ventures—and business purpose. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, generating results that allow our clients to thrive.
What You'll Do
We are dedicated to building AI-driven solutions that redefine our products, processes, and technology to deliver exceptional value, service, and flexibility to our consultants. Agile methodologies are central to this approach, and we seek leaders who are passionate about fostering this mindset across teams and business operations.
You will play a pivotal role in establishing standards, practices, and expertise within your squad. You will act as a "player-coach," directly contributing to squad work while cultivating engineering talent. By integrating solution architecture expertise with a focus on talent development, you will lead the creation and delivery of impactful GenAI products, enabling transformative outcomes for our business and customers.
Among your responsibilities, you will:
Leadership & Development
- Build, coach, and mentor engineers.
- Lead by example as a "player-coach": directly contributing to code and architecture, while growing engineering talent and setting best practices.
- Foster a culture of learning, experimentation, and curiosity.
Technical Excellence
- Champion engineering excellence, clean architecture, and maintainable code across squads.
- Hands-on in backend development – leading complex problem-solving in Python (especially FastAPI).
- Architect and support secure, scalable, and stable APIs and services that integrate with LLMs and modern cloud platforms (AWS).
- Promote DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and automated quality assurance.
- Leverage AI/agentic engineering tools for rapid development, with code-quality top of mind.
GenAI & System Thinking
- Drive adoption and experimentation with large language models (LLMs), working closely with product and research teams.
- Prioritize efficiencies by using AI engineering tools within your team.
- Identify and articulate system-level tradeoffs, risks, and opportunities in AI-enabled architectures.
- Stay current with AI and software engineering trends, contributing to technical strategy, experimentation, and roadmap definition.
YOU’RE GOOD AT
- Inspiring and enabling others, people want to work with and learn from you.
- Enjoying coaching and developing people to improve their personal performance, knowledge, and expertise.
- Thinking in systems and balancing tech trade-offs for long-term scalability.
- Driving quality, performance, and security in everything you build.
- Both planning and design along with execution and support.
- Pushing a bias toward action and ownership, with empathy and a growth mindset.
- Data-driven decision making, both in day-to-day management and in making strategic trade-offs.
What You'll Bring
- 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience with strong backend/API expertise using Python (FastAPI or Flask).
- 1+ years of hands-on experience with LLMs: building RAG solutions, agentic workflows, integrating LLMs (e.g., OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, etc.) into products, building and integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, and authoring Claude Skills to extend agent capabilities, etc.
- Experience in cloud-native development (AWS), with infrastructure and DevOps principles.
- Strong systems thinking, architectural decision-making, and technical judgment.
- Deep understanding of software design principles, with a track record of building resilient, maintainable, and scalable systems.
- Passion, curiosity, and a proactive mindset with a track record of inspiring teams through complex challenges.
- Experience working in high-paced Agile, product-oriented environments, with a focus on continuous delivery and cross-functional collaboration.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; able to influence across functions and seniority levels.
Additional info
- Product Owners and Team Dev Leads: To prioritize backlog, align resources, and define architectural strategy for AI-powered products.
- Chapter Leads and Engineering Peers: To ensure consistency in technical approaches, exchange best practices, and promote cross-chapter collaboration.
- Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters: To embed agile principles into day-to-day practices and strengthen ways of working across squads.
- Your squad and cross-functional teams: Where you will act as both a leader and contributor, helping drive delivery and support collaboration between engineering, design, and product.
Boston Consulting Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected under national, provincial, or local law, where applicable, and those with criminal histories will be considered in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.
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