Moody's
Principal Software Engineer
Bellevue, WA
Jan 31, 2025
Full Job Description

Location(s):

  • 800 Bellevue Way NE, Suite 325, Bellevue, Washington, 98004, US

Line Of Business: Platform Engineering(PE)

Job Category:

  • Engineering & Technology

Experience Level: Experienced Hire

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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.

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.

Moody's External Website Posting Website:


Employer: Moody's Analytics, Inc.

Title: Principal Software Engineer

Location: 800 Bellevue Way NE, Bellevue, WA 98004

Duties: Research new technologies and techniques to support leading-edge development. Provide active contribution to team responsible for design, development, and implementation of critical enterprise-scale applications. Assist in providing estimates for levels of effort required to accomplish expected deliverables. Participate and help with integration of architecture solutions, design patterns, technical strategy, and roadmaps. Collaborate with technical leads, product managers, and quality assurance engineers to develop multi-tier, multi-layered application frameworks and functional components, following coding best practices, documentation, and design standards. Utilize modularity and layering to enable high scalability and maintainability for software applications. Write high-performance computer algorithms and create technical design documents, architecture, sequence, class, and related artifacts. Translate design inputs and requirements into development work items. Create unit testing and integration tests for each delivered module. Utilize unique Big Data approach scaling to massive size over time, large-scale distributed data processing technology. Conduct performance tuning, bottleneck analysis, and resource usage monitoring.

Requirements: Requires a Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Economics, or a closely related field plus at least five (5) years of progressively responsible experience as a Project Manager, Analyst, Engineer, Developer, or in a related position performing designing technical solutions. Must have experience with the following: providing technical support, including troubleshooting, analyzing, and resolving defects in production, UAT, and stage environments; applying knowledge of multithreading concepts, design patterns, and software development methodologies, including Agile, and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment; working with Core Java, J2ee, Spring, Hibernate, JMS, JDBC, SQL/PLSQL, Unix, Shell, JavaScript, Html, CSS, React (or similar modern UI framework), IntelliJ, SQL Developer, cloud hosted relational databases (such as Postgres), cloud service components (such as AWS SQS, S3, IAM) for microservice development, and automated testing tools, including Junit and Jacoco; and using build tools and version control systems, including GIT.

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $190,486 to $294,000, 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, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, life, disability, and accident insurance, a discounted employee stock purchase plan, and tuition reimbursement.

To apply, please submit resume through careers.moodys.com or via e-mail at hrbox28@moodys.com. Please refer to Job Ref. 7962.

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $190,486 - $294,000, 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, paid time off, a 401(k) 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, sex, gender, age, religion, national origin, citizen status, marital status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law. Moody's also provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities or based on a sincerely held religious belief in accordance with applicable laws. If you need to inquire about a reasonable accommodation, or need assistance with completing the application process, please email accommodations@moodys.com. This contact information is for accommodation requests only, and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

For San Francisco positions, qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for employment consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

This position may be considered a promotional opportunity, pursuant to the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.

Click here to view our full EEO policy statement. Click here for more information on your EEO rights under the law. Click here to view our Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination statement. Click here to view our Notice to New York City Applicants.
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 Corporation is a Government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, as amended by the Jobs for Veterans Act of 2002, 38 U.S.C. 4212 (VEVRAA), which requires Government contractors to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment: (1) disabled veterans; (2) recently separated veterans; (3) active duty wartime or campaign badge veterans; and (4) Armed Forces service medal veterans.

VEVRAA Federal Contractor

We Request Priority Protected Veteran and Disabled Referrals for all of our locations

Please contact Donna Hutchinson, Assistant Vice President, Talent Attraction for any questions regarding this listing.

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