Staff Software Engineer (Java) at Moody's in National

Location(s):

Remote - United States, US

Line Of Business: Know Your Customer OU(KYC OU)

Job Category:

Engineering & Technology

Experience Level: Experienced Hire

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.

Role/Responsibilities :

A Staff Software Engineer fulfills the following responsibilities, with occasional guidance of more senior team members:

Interpret business requirements for a Business Mission/Epic with the assistance of Business Analysts.
Provide feedback on requirements from a technical perspective and provide estimates for user stories and tasks.
Author technical design documents.
Take ownership of stories; Implement and test features based on the requirements.
Refactor design and implementation for stories owned, based on requirement changes.
Define and maintain coding standards, and guide team members to comply with these standards.
Collaborate with quality assurance engineers to fix defects.
Collaborate with build and release engineers to prepare packages and solve environment issues.
Investigate and find the root cause for software problems reported by clients.
Maintain technical documents.
Review code of less senior team members, provide guidance from technical perspective.
Work with more senior team members to continuously improve our engineering practices.
Mentor more junior engineers.
Conduct training sessions and proactively share knowledge in or across teams.

Qualifications :

Minimum Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related major from top institutions, Masters degree is a plus.
Deep understanding of Object Oriented design and development
12+ years of professional software design and development experience on multi-tiered enterprise applications.
Production experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Proficient in data access techniques for both relational and NoSQL databases
Works well within the constructs of an agile development process, including SCRUM, Unit Testing, Continuous Build and Integration, etc and suggests improvement to this process
Quickly learns new technologies; proactively seeks to improve
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to participate in multiple projects concurrently and to own a business mission or a lead a small team
Works well in a fast-paced team environment; able to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines
Has superb analytical and problem solving skills.
Competent in Programming Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript, HTML/HTML5, CSS2/3, XML, XSLT.
Competent in Development tools: Eclipse (CDT), IntelliJ IDEA.
Competent in Application Servers: Tomcat, WebSphere, Jetty, Apache
Competent in Application Frameworks & Engines: , J2SE, J2EE, JDBC, RMI/IIOP, Spring framework, Spring Boot, JPA(Java Persistence API) or other ORM framework such as Hibernate or iBatics, JTA(Java Transaction API), Java WebService, Microservices. JQuery, Node.js, Angular.js, React.js, Bootstrap. Solr, Lucene or Elastic Search experience is required.
Familiar with SQL and NOSQL Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, etc.
Experience is writing good JUnit or TestNG test cases utilizing Mocking Framework like Mockito is a plus
Experience with REST APIs
Experience with ActiveMQ or other JMS systems (e.g. WebSphere MQ or RabbitMQ) is a plus
Experience with Atlassian product suite like (Confluence/JIRA/JIRA AGILE/Crucible/Bamboo)

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is$134,800.00-$195,550.00, 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, national origin, citizen status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, 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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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.

Moody’s Corporation is a Government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended by the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002, 38 U.S.C. 4212 (VEVRAA), which requires Government contractors to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment: (1) disabled veterans; (2) recently separated veterans; (3) active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans; and (4) Armed Forces service medal veterans.

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