Senior Software Engineer

at  Moodys

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REQUIREMENTS, QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS:

• Strong, most recent, at least 3-year, hands-on experiences as a Python Developer
• Expertise in at least one popular Python framework (like Django, Flask, FastAPI or Pyramid). Flask and/or FastAPI are preferable
• 2-year experience with integrating the applications’ code with AWS Cloud solutions or similar like Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Computing Services
• Experience with Docker and know the Dockerfile syntax
• Good experience with databases
• Familiarity with front-end technologies (like JavaScript and HTML5)
• Team spirit
• Good problem-solving skills
• BSc in Computer Science, Engineering or relevant field
  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

PYTHON DEVELOPER RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Writing effective, scalable code for microservices
• Developing back-end components to improve responsiveness and overall performance
• Helping with integrating user-facing elements into applications

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Understand the design and architecture of the products that the team is working on
• Understand and have a good level of knowledge of the following technologies: GitHub (or similar), Docker, CircleCI (or similar), Python, Kubernetes,
• Understand and follow the CI/CD process
• Know the design principles of the Web Services
• To have experience with AWS solutions like S3, EC2, EKS, Aurora and other
• Actively participate in the development and design of new multi-tenancy computational resources sharing platform and other new upcoming projects
• Take the lead on the troubleshooting of the micro-services when it’s needed
• Participate in the code reviews (primarily, via GitHub Pull Request (PR) reviews).
• Write functional tests for all new functionality in the micro-services add more coverage to the existing ones
• Support release activities
• Write unit tests for any new common code and code that cannot be efficiently tested via function tests
• Make micro-services functional tests part of the deployment pipelines/jobs
• Participate in regular status update meetings