Staff Software Engineer - Rust

at  Moodys

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Role/Responsibilities;
As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a core member of a cross-functional team responsible for developing and executing on a vision for the Passfort product. We practice an agile, highly customer focused, and learning-based approach to product development.

Specifically, you will have the opportunity to:

• Lead the automation and performance improvement initiatives from inception to delivery

. Work with and ( if you have not got commercial experience in it already) learn Rust

• Define strategy for measuring the success of any automation and performance improvement initiatives in PassFort and keeping the initiatives outcome-oriented.
• Peer review code changes
• Mentor more junior team members in technical and non-technical aspects of their roles

· Learn, adapt, and propose innovative technologies to address our functional and scaling challenges· Champion and drive engineering processes and best practices.
. Work with the engineering manager, product manager, and leadership teams to drive an outcome focused culture by using OKRS and yearly goals to collaborate with individual and teams as they set their priorities

Qualifications

• Experience writing/managing highly scalable , high performance applications

. You will have experience in Python and a track record of learning other languages as needed. We work with Rust here as well, so any experience with that would be great but a passion to learn it is more important. We believe great engineers can learn any language

• Experience with refactoring large codebases

. You will set the standard for others in terms of engineering standards, with an emphasis on clean code, and an understanding of the importance of testing in creating maintainable software

• Deep understanding of application tracing and profiling across micro-services
• Experience of system design, and the ability to convey your thoughts to others concisely
• Experience working with a collaborative product team passionate about Agile software processes, data-driven development, and experimentation

. Strong communication skills and the ability to work well with others, as well as mentoring other team members, in a pair programming environment. We encourage collaboration between engineers, and pair programming is a key tool for how we achieve that in our daily work

• Strong analytical and reasoning skills and an ability to communicate ideas to non-technical audiences
• Ability to guide own learning and contribute to domain knowledge building

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