Senior Software Engineer

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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. Moody’s is transforming how the world sees risk. As a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment, we’re advancing AI to move from insight to action—enabling intelligence that not only understands complexity but responds to it. We decode risk to unlock opportunity, helping our clients navigate uncertainty with clarity, speed, and confidence.

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. 

Employer: Moody’s Analytics, Inc.

Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: 7 World Trade Center, 250 Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007, USA (Principal place of business – telecommuting permitted)

Duties: Deliver full-stack features across a modern TypeScript ecosystem (React + Module Federation frontend, NodeJS serverless backend) serving millions of users making critical financial decisions. Design and implement scalable serverless solutions leveraging AWS Lambda, ECS, and event-driven architectures to handle unpredictable traffic spikes without performance degradation. Influence cross-team architecture and standards across 40+ squads, balancing autonomy with platform consistency and managing complex dependencies. Own the full development lifecycle—from ideation and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring in production. Solve ambiguous and complex problems, including unclear requirements, evolving business needs, and production incidents—going beyond ticket-based work to define what needs to be built. Collaborate extensively with product managers, designers, data engineers, and other developers to align on technical and business solutions. Ensure high-quality code and maintainability through best practices in testing, code reviews, and continuous integration/deployment. Contribute to architectural decisions that optimize for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency in a cloud-native environment. Stay proactive in knowledge sharing, mentoring peers, and contributing to documentation and internal tooling improvements. Adapt quickly to changing priorities, new technologies, and evolving business requirements in a fast-paced environment. Reproducing, analyzing and finding the root cause for user issues. Telecommuting is permitted (100% telecommuting position, will consider applicants residing in the continental U.S.).

Requirements: Requires a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field plus two (2) years of experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or in a related position performing software development and designing technical solutions. Must have experience with the following: architecting, designing, developing, and implementing solutions to support enhancements and bug fixes in existing and new applications; designing, developing, and maintaining data integration pipelines from various data sources and data formats; implementing and applying knowledge of data quality best practices and data governance principles; applying knowledge of multithreading concepts, design patterns, and software development methodologies, including Agile, and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment for application development; working with SQL, Python, AWS database and cloud technologies, Unix, Shell, GitHub, GitActions, Docker, Jenkins, C#, .Net, JIRA, Service Now, Confluence. Telecommuting is permitted (100% telecommuting position, will consider applicants residing in the continental U.S.).

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $109,845 to $192,300, 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 hrbox28@moodys.com. Please refer to Job Ref. 15446.

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $109,845 to $192,300, 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 accommodations@moodys.com. 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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