Let's begin! Staff Software Engineer Full Stack

At Moodys we unite the brightest minds to turn todays risks into tomorrows opportunities. We do this by striving to create an inclusive environment where everyone feels welcome to be who they arewith the freedom to exchange ideas think innovatively and listen to each other and customers in meaningful ways. Moodys is transforming how the world sees risk. As a global leader in ratings and integrated risk assessment were advancing AI to move from insight to actionenabling 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.

Skills and Competencies
10 years of engineering experience operating at a Staff Engineer or Associate Director level.
Deep expertise across backend and frontend engineering with the ability to design deliver and scale complex distributed systems.
Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services including Lambda ECS DynamoDB S3 and EventBridge.
Advanced proficiency in API design microservices architecture asynchronous/event-driven systems and modern data access patterns.
Strong command of distributed system principles such as caching data partitioning resiliency and performance engineering.
Expertise in defining observability standards including metrics tracing logging SLOs and service health KPIs.
Experience modernizing legacy systems by introducing contemporary patterns reusable frameworks and cloud-native components.
Demonstrated capability in improving CI/CD pipelines enforcing automated quality gates and implementing safe deployment strategies.
Strong understanding of secure-by-design practices including threat modeling secrets management and secure coding guidelines.
Proven experience mentoring mid-level senior and staff-level engineers to elevate technical rigor and architectural decision-making.
Ability to drive cross-squad architectural consistency engineering best practices and platform/tooling adoption.
Deep understanding of performance optimization testing strategies and scalability engineering.
Experience in designing or contributing to shared libraries platform tooling or reusable engineering foundations (nice to have).

Education
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical fieldor equivalent professional experience.

Responsibilities
Architect and build highly complex distributed systems spanning frontend backend and cloud infrastructure.
Improve system scalability and performance through caching strategies data partitioning and optimized API contracts.
Lead modernization initiatives by introducing event-driven patterns asynchronous workflows microservices and new platform capabilities.
Conduct deep technical discovery author RFCs and guide solution design for major cross-team initiatives.
Enhance CI/CD pipelines using automated quality checks trunk-based workflows and robust rollout and rollback mechanisms.
Define and implement observability practicesmetrics logs tracingand establish SLOs and service health indicators across services.
Champion security-by-design by incorporating threat modeling secure coding enforcement and proper secrets governance.
Accelerate adoption of internal platforms reusable libraries and shared engineering standards across squads.
Provide architectural guidance and code quality oversight to ensure system cohesion long-term maintainability and high reliability.
Mentor engineers across squads lead technical reviews and elevate engineering patterns frameworks and best practices.
Strengthen engineering rigor by improving testing strategies performance tuning and scalability engineering.

About the team
The Staff Full Stack Engineer is a senior technical authority who steers complex distributed systems shapes cross-squad architecture and solves the highest-impact problems. Operating across services data and UI this role ensures solutions are scalable observable and cost-conscious in the cloud.
As a force multiplier the Staff Engineer raises the engineering bar-improving patterns frameworks performance and developer experience. They mentor engineers guide modernization of legacy components and provide hands-on leadership that accelerates delivery across Moodys Casualty and Financial Lines.

Moodys is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex place of origin disability marital or familial status sexual orientation gender expression gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.

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