Let's begin! Staff Software Engineer (11150) chez Moody's Corporation

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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. 

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Employer: Moody's Investors Service, Inc.

Title: Staff Software Engineer

Location: 1414 South Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28203

Duties: Provide technical leadership to architects, developers, engineers, and operators in geographically dispersed location. Innovate and develop tools and technologies for enhanced developer experience and productivity. Oversee implementation of complex engineering solutions across the enterprise Design, develop and demonstrate use of fit for purpose open-source technologies. Develop product roadmap, architecture artifacts and delivery strategy for engineering solutions. Establish and maintain development standards and prescriptions. Participate in code reviews, providing constructive feedback to team members and ensuring adherence to coding best practices. Develop long term technical roadmap and continual revenue/cost optimization. Ensure deliverables across engineering teams are high quality and sustainable. Manage and appropriately escalate delivery impediments, risks, issues, and changes tied to the engineering initiatives to the stakeholders.

Requirements: Requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science a closely related field plus five (5) years of progressively responsible experience as an Engineer, Developer, Architect, or in a related technical position performing software design and development. Must have experience with the following: developing RESTful APIs using Spring Boot and Spring Framework, ensuring enterprise grade scalable and maintainable solutions; build tools including Gradle for automating the build, testing and deployment process, enhancing continuous integration and delivery workflows; relational databases including PostgreSQL and NoSQL; databases including MongoDB; design patterns such as SAGA, OOAD, Sidecar, Pub-Sub; Kubernetes and Docker; OpenTelemetry for application observability including understanding of distributed tracing, metrics and logs; Cloud Technologies including AWS and Azure is a plus; and working in a Agile environment using JIRA.

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $154,669 to $203,350/yr, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location. This range is based on a full-time position. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for incentive compensation. Moody’s also offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.

To apply, please submit resume through careers.moodys.com or via e-mail at [email protected]. Please refer to Job Ref. 11150.

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $154,669 -  $203,350/yr, depending on factors such as experience, education, level, skills, and location. This range is based on a full-time position. In addition to base salary, this role is eligible for incentive compensation. Moody’s also offers a competitive benefits package, including not but limited to medical, dental, vision, parental leave, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.

Moody’s is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, gender, age, religion or creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Moody’s also provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or based on a sincerely held religious belief in accordance with applicable laws. If you need to inquire about a reasonable accommodation, or need assistance with completing the application process, please email [email protected]. This contact information is for accommodation requests only, and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

For San Francisco positions, qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

This position may be considered a promotional opportunity, pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.

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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.

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Please note: STP categories are assigned by the hiring teams and are subject to change over the course of an employee’s tenure with Moody’s.