Software Engineer

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. 

Skills and Competencies

• 2+ years of professional software development experience working on multi-tiered enterprise applications
• Deep understanding of cloud architecture and services (MS Azure, AWS)
• Deep understanding of object-oriented design and programming, desktop, and web application development
• Strong knowledge and experience in Azure architecture and services, Azure Resource Management APIs, Azure networking, storage, security, and serverless technologies
• Strong knowledge and experience in AWS architecture and services such as EC2/CloudFormation, networking, storage (S3), and security
• Experience in programming languages including C#, Visual Basic .NET, and Python; C++ is an asset
• Experience in JavaScript, JSON, HTML, and XML
• Experience in web development technologies including REST, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET, and Web API
• Strong knowledge and experience in MS SQL Server (programming, administration, and tuning), Azure SQL, AWS RDS, and embedded database engines such as MS Jet, SQLite, and DuckDB
• Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems including architecture, APIs, security, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
• Good verbal and written communication skills

Education

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in computer engineering or a related field from a top institution; Master’s degree is a plus

Responsibilities

The Software Engineer focuses on the development of cloud-based products and services.

• Participate in the design and implementation of new features in cloud-based products and improve existing features as required
• Provide input into technical design, cloud infrastructure requirements, optimization approaches, stability improvements, and scalability enhancements
• Provide feedback on requirements from a technical perspective and provide estimates for projects and tasks
• Collaborate with quality assurance engineers to identify and resolve defects
• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to deploy applications and solve environment-related issues
• Investigate and determine the root cause of software and service problems reported by clients and provide solutions, fixes, and improvements
• Comply with coding standards and SDLC requirements
• Maintain technical documentation
• Review code submitted by other team members

About the Team

Join a collaborative engineering team focused on delivering innovative cloud-based products and services. The team works across software engineering, quality assurance, and DevOps functions to design, develop, deploy, and maintain scalable enterprise applications. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to modern cloud architectures, solve complex technical challenges, and work with cutting-edge technologies in Azure and AWS environments while collaborating with experienced engineering professionals.

 

For Canada-based roles only: The anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $89,200.00- $129,400.00, 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, vacation, a retirement savings 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, religion, sex, place of origin, disability, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from Aboriginal persons, members of a visible minority group, persons with a disability, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and women.

Moody’s is committed to maintaining an inclusive, diverse and accessible workplace. To this end, reasonable accommodations are available on request, and will take into account the particular accommodation needs of individual candidates. If you are selected and require accommodation during any stage of the recruitment process, you may send your request to View email address on powertofly.com Information provided during the accommodation process will be treated as confidential, and will be shared only to the extent required to properly evaluate accommodation requests.

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 uses artificial intelligence and advanced algorithms that compare candidate resumes to the requirements in job postings to match potential candidates to requisitions in the recruitment process. Moody’s does this to ease the burden on recruiters and hiring managers by highlighting candidates for consideration.