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The Role / Responsibilities:
Staff Software Engineer focuses on the development of cloud-based products and services:
- Design and implement new features in product and improve existing features as required.
- Provide input into technical design, cloud infrastructure requirements, optimization approaches, stability, and scalability improvements.
- Provide feedback on requirements from a technical perspective and provide estimates for projects and tasks.
- Collaborate with quality assurance engineers to fix defects.
- Collaborate with DevOps engineers to deploy applications and solve environment issues.
- Investigate, find the root cause for software and services problems reported by clients. Provide solutions for fixes and improvements.
- Comply with coding standards.
- Maintain technical documentation.
- Review code of other team members.
Qualifications:
- Minimum bachelor's degree in computer engineering or related majors from top institutions, Master as a plus.
- Deep understanding of cloud architecture and services (MS Azure, AWS).
- Deep understanding if object-oriented design and programming, desktop, and web application development.
- 4+ years' professional software development experiences on multi-tiered enterprise applications.
- Experience with databases, including cloud based.
- Very good verbal and written communication skills.
Must-Have Technical Skills:
- Strong knowledge and experience in Azure architecture and services, Azure Resource Management APIs, Azure networking, storage, security, serverless.
- Experience in programming languages: Visual C#, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Python etc.
- Experience in JavaScript, JSON, HTML, XML
- Experience in web development: REST, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET WEB API etc.
- Strong knowledge and experience in MS SQL Server (programming, administration, tuning), Azure SQL, embedded database engines: MS Jet, SQLite.
- Strong knowledge of Windows operating system (architecture, APIs, security, performance tuning, troubleshooting)
Nice-to-Have Technical Skills:
- Experienced in Source Control Systems: TFS, Git, etc.
- Experience in Linux
- Competence in: IIS, Azure Web Services, Azure Databricks etc.
- Competence in Application Frameworks & Engines: JQuery, Node.js, Angular.js, Bootstrap, etc.
- Experience in Power BI, Jira, Jenkins, Octopus, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps etc.
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.
For more information on the Securities Trading Program, please refer to the STP Quick Reference guide on ComplianceNet
Please note: STP categories are assigned by the hiring teams and are subject to change over the course of an employee's tenure with Moody's.