Senior Software Engineer

Atlanta, GA, United States

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.

In Digital Insights, we leverage rich content and workflow capabilities to comprehensively evaluate risk and support better decisions. Our flagship platform CreditView incorporates credit ratings, research and Moody’s data. It is an essential tool that helps our clients in the professional services, commercial and financial industries to conduct fundamental credit analysis. Our diverse team is made up of marketing, technology, product strategy and customer experience experts. We are seeking a full-stack developer with strong front-end knowledge and micro-service experience for our Digital Insights team to help build the next generation of Moodys.com -- building and enhancing a vast array of projects including a shared UI library, reusable widgets, micro-frontends, and micro-services. They and their team will work alongside a larger multi-disciplinary team of developers supporting the products and services offered on the Moodys.com platform. Applicants should be comfortable with visual design and user experience principles and be self-directed with ample problem-solving skills. Communication and flexibility are critical in this role, working across both the Moodys.com teams and the larger enterprise.

Responsibilities

Design, develop and maintain products for Moodys.com platform using front-end/backend web technologies, databases, and cloud services.

Collaborate with other development teams within Digital Insights team and across Moody’s Analytics to establish technology standards and best practices

Identify and embrace innovative technologies to enhance customer experience, improve platform stability, scalability, and availability

Assist in designing and developing new products and enhancements based on evolving business needs

Evaluate innovative technologies, prototype solutions, and conduct knowledge sharing sessions

Participate in backlog refinements and iteration planning meetings to review and point stories

Take ownership of epics and stories; implement and test features (unit, integration, end-to-end)

Requirements:

5+ years of professional software development experience

Ability to lead and mentor team members

Problem solver

Self-motivated independent thinker

Organized and analytical decision-making

Enthusiasm for a collaborative development approach

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Strong proficiency in TypeScript and NodeJS

Strong knowledge of HTML and CSS (including styled components and SCSS)

Experience in developing responsive web applications using ReactJS, leveraging popular workflows such as Redux, Sagas, etc.

Experience with common front-end development tools (Babel, Webpack, npm)

Familiarity with modern front-end build pipelines, tools, and CI/CD concepts

Proficiency in Git, including the ability to evaluate and maintain the codebase during code reviews via pull requests

Experience in building web applications using AWS serverless architecture, DynamoDB, S3, API Gateway, and Lambda

Solid understanding of both relational and NoSQL databases

Technologies:

TypeScript

ReactJS

NodeJS

AWS API Gateway, Lambda Functions, Step Functions

AWS DynamoDB, Aurora PostgreSQL, OpenSearch

Micro-frontend architecture using Module Federation or Single-Spa

Backend Serverless Architecture

Customizable UI Design Library (e.g, Material Design or Ant Design)

Test Driven Development Concepts, Jest, Cypress, Puppeteer, Playwright

React State management (e.g, Redux, RTK, Jotai, Zustand)

Asynchronous data fetching using React Query

Trunk Based Development

Feature flagging (Split.io, LaunchDarkly)

SSO with Okta

The Bonus Points:

Prior knowledge of integrating applications with search platforms like Open Search, Elastic Search and Solr

Experience with component library systems (e.g., Bit.dev)

Experience with container technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS ECS/EKS

Experience with AWS networking, VPC, Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers; AWS InfiniDash

Experience with CDNs, Akamai, CloudFlare, AWS CloudFront

Experience with Reverse Proxies, HAProxy, Kong, API Gateway, LUA, Nginx

Experience with development technologies: Git, Jira, Asana, Selenium, SonarQube, Cypress

Annual base salary gross: $112,000 to $184,950. Applicable to Lithuania candidates: The base salary range represents the low and high end of the Moody’s salary range for this position. Actual salaries will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies. The salary is one component of Moody’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards and benefits include the following: Medical, Personal Accident, Life Insurance and Time Off.

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.