Principal Software Engineer- Architect

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. 

At Moody’s Analytics Know Your Customer (KYC) / Know Your Supplier (KYS), we solve problems that matter. We are a cross-functional team of sales and marketing, technology and product professionals who are all passionate about preventing criminal infiltration of the world’s financial system and bringing transparency to global supply chains by detecting fraud, terrorism, human trafficking, and other criminal threats.

We combine the agility, passion, and dynamism of a startup with the strong positioning and stability of an established institution, providing our people with dynamic career paths and mobility options across the globe, all while having access to the entire Moody’s network. We empower our people and are committed to helping them reach their goals.

As our customers scale, they need to be able to handle the increase in work without jeopardising their operational efficiency, the quality of their decisions or their end-customer onboarding experience. We aim to provide our customers with reliable workflow automation, enabling their teams to focus on critical decisions.

Our product uses a microservice setup with Pulsar as the message queue system. It runs on a Kubernetes cluster, with deployments on Google Cloud and Azure.

As a Principal Software Engineer in Platform Architecture, you will be responsible for leading initiatives with high levels of uncertainty from discovery to implementation across all areas of the product. Depending on team needs and problem areas you have identified, you will work embedded in a cross-functional team, or independently with the support of subject matter experts from engineers, product, UX.

This is an exceptional opportunity to innovate and contribute to Moody’s innovation journey and our success. Although this is an individual contributor role, several coaching competencies are required to support and guide the broader engineering team.

We are an agile team that values customer-focus and continuous learning. Your responsibilities will include:

• Identify high-value and complex problem areas for the Platform and translate these into concrete initiatives, balancing technical leadership with strong business judgment

• Propose and implement initial solutions/POCs to support architectural changes and solve scaling and performance problems.

• Work with the Platform engineering leaders to define & communicate a technical vision and help build the technical roadmap across engineering teams within the Platform group

• Ensure teams to make informed decisions in alignment with the current and future direction of the Platform’s architecture

• Provide a point of contact for engineering team facing complex technical challenges, and for other KYC OU teams looking to build on top of the Platform

• Drive collaboration across technology teams, fostering a collaborative and inclusive engineering team culture where learning and growth are prioritised.

• Lead by example, demonstrating best practices in engineering and leadership whilst fostering a culture of continuous improvement

• Mentor and support other domain experts, individual contributors, across several teams. Coach team members on bringing structure and strategy to problem spaces across different teams

To excel in this role, you should possess the following qualifications:

• Track record in leading the delivery of SaaS applications, ideally in Rust or Python, successfully tackling complex product and technology problems and driving successful outcomes

• Experience playing a visionary technical leadership role

• Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large scale full stack development, building complex distributed systems, event-driven architectures etc.

• Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms and asynchronous architectures

• Preferred, but not required: experience with multi-phase commit protocols, transaction control in a distributed system

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, making use of data and relevant metrics.

• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, and ability to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

• Passion for creating innovative and impactful products that solve real-world problems.

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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.