Experience Level: Experienced Hire
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- Minster Building, 21 Mincing Lane, 2nd Floor, London, EC3R 7AG, GB
At Moody's, we unite the brightest minds to turn today’s risks into tomorrow’s opportunities. We strive 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.
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.
As a Principal Software Engineer in Platform Architecture, you will be responsible for leading initiatives with high levels of uncertainty from discovery to implementation across all areas of the product. You will work embedded in a cross-functional team or independently with the support of subject matter experts from engineers, product, and UX.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Identify high-value and complex problem areas for the Platform and translate these into concrete initiatives, balancing technical leadership with strong business judgment.
- Propose and implement initial solutions/POCs to support architectural changes and solve scaling and performance problems.
- Work with the Platform engineering leaders to define & communicate a technical vision and help build the technical roadmap across engineering teams within the Platform group.
- Ensure teams make informed decisions in alignment with the current and future direction of the Platform’s architecture.
- Provide a point of contact for engineering teams facing complex technical challenges and for other KYC OU teams looking to build on top of the Platform.
- Drive collaboration across technology teams, fostering a collaborative and inclusive engineering team culture where learning and growth are prioritized.
- Lead by example, demonstrating best practices in engineering and leadership whilst fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Mentor and support other domain experts and individual contributors across several teams.
To excel in this role, you should possess the following qualifications:
- Track record in leading the delivery of SaaS applications, ideally in Rust or Python.
- Experience playing a visionary technical leadership role.
- Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large scale full stack development, building complex distributed systems, event-driven architectures, etc.
- Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and asynchronous architectures.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills, making use of data and relevant metrics.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Passion for creating innovative and impactful products that solve real-world problems.
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.
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