Software Engineer

At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today’s risks into tomorrow’s opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they are-with the freedom to exchange ideas, think innovatively, and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. 

If you are excited about this opportunity but do not meet every single requirement, please apply! You still may be a great fit for this role or other open roles. We are seeking candidates who model our values: invest in every relationship, lead with curiosity, champion diverse perspectives, turn inputs into actions, and uphold trust through integrity. 

As a Software Engineer you will be a core member of a cross-functional, integration team responsible for developing and executing on a vision for the Platform. We practice an agile, highly customer focused, and learning-based approach to product development. You will be a part of end-to-end development of client-facing software applications, helping develop new features and product integrations. You bring not only strong experience. with API development, algorithms, data structures, coding, and distributed systems, but also a passion for translating those skills into business impact for our customers.
Specifically, you will have the opportunity to:

• Collaborate with product owners and QA analysts to define requirements and prioritize tasks
• Design and implement technical solutions for new products and features
• Help define testing, monitoring, and delivery plans for your work
• Write well-designed, testable code Peer review code changes
• Mentor more junior team members in technical aspects of their roles
• Learn, adapt, and propose new technologies to address our functional and scaling challenges
• Champion and drive engineering processes and best practices.

Qualifications

• Required minimum 5+ years of experience.
• Ability to develop software in Python, Rust, or other programming languages with frameworks like Bootstrap or REACT.
• Experience with one of the main cloud providers (GCP / AWS / Azure) would be beneficial
• Ability to design maintainable APIs
• The candidate should design an appropriate REST endpoint following best practices around HTTP methods, query params, etc.
• The candidate should be able to structure a basic REST API using JSON and make appropriate choices about naming and data structure.
• Solid understanding of data modeling and database systems
• Experience working on a collaborative product team passionate about Agile software processes, data-driven development, and experimentation
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills and an ability to communicate ideas to non-technical audiences
• Ability to guide own learning and contribute to domain knowledge building

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

Candidates for Moody's Corporation may be asked to disclose securities holdings pursuant to Moody’s Policy for Securities Trading and the requirements of the position. Employment is contingent upon compliance with the Policy, including remediation of positions in those holdings as necessary.