Engineer

Location:

Nagoya, Tokyo

Geography:

Asia Pacific

Capabilities:

Technology & digital

Industries:

Technology industries

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 work closely with clients to embrace a transformational approach aimed at benefiting all stakeholders—empowering organizations to grow, build sustainable competitive advantage, and drive positive societal impact.

Our diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives that question the status quo and spark change. BCG delivers solutions through leading-edge management consulting, technology and design, and corporate and digital ventures. We work in a uniquely collaborative model across the firm and throughout all levels of the client organization, fueled by the goal of helping our clients thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.

Practice Area Profile

The Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMT) practice works with companies across the digital device, software, IT services, TV, publishing, information services, entertainment and telecom sectors to make sense of the unrelenting velocity of technological and consumer change they face. We partner with clients to transform their industries, define winning business models, shape their value proposition and go-to-market approach, enhance their operational competitiveness, and create sustained advantage.

What You'll Do

Responsibilities:
  • Participate in ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative and disruptive digital solutions
  • Build digital apps, APIs and data solutions to drive digital transformation projects
  • Promote agile principles and methodology
  • Work on multiple client prototypes at the same time and facilitate client demos

What You'll Bring (Experience & Qualifications)

Requirements:
  • 2+ years professional software development experience within the enterprise or consumer market
  • Mid-Level to Expert within one or more of the following: ES6/ES5, React, React Native, Node, Angular, JQuery
  • Mid-Level to Expert within one or more of the following: Javascript, Python, Scala or Java
  • Very solid API skills (e.g. Express/Node, GraphQL/Relay, Flask, Jersey, Java Spring REST or WebApi2)
  • Hands-on RDBMS experience (data modeling, analysis, programming, stored procedures)
  • Solid CSS, motion design and usability experience
  • Solid foundation in data structures, algorithms, and OO Design with rock-solid programming skills
  • Proven success working in and promoting a rapidly changing, collaborative, and iterative product development environment
  • Strong interpersonal skills, analytical skills, combined with intellectual curiosity, and a desire and ability to "get things done" are essential
  • Agile Scrum development experience
  • Must be able to travel up to 80% to client sites as an engineering expert
  • BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience: 1+ year(s) Agile development in a production environment at a startup or organization with 20+ employees

Nice-to-Have Experience:
  • Data science and visualization (Hadoop, Spark, Databricks, Drill, Tableau)
  • Predictive analytics and machine learning (scikit-learn, Tensorflow, Mahout, recommendation systems)
  • NoSQL databases and modeling (Cassandra & MongoDB)
  • Scaled apps in the cloud: Amazon AWS EC2, Google Compute Engine
  • iOS: Objective-C or Swift
  • Work experience in one or more of the following industries: FinTech, Insurance, Pharmaceutical, Health Care, Retail, Telcom, Luxury Brands

Date Posted:

13-Feb-2019

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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