Staff Software Engineer

PassFort; Brussel Hoofdstad; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

PassFort, located in Brussels, is seeking a skilled developer to design and implement scalable serverless solutions using AWS. This role will influence architecture across multiple teams and manage the full development lifecycle from design to deployment.

The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in shipping production software and strong proficiency in TypeScript and React, alongside a collaborative mindset to work with cross-functional teams. This position offers an exciting opportunity to make a real impact in financial decision-making technologies.

Qualifications

• Proven experience shipping production software with end-to-end feature ownership.
• Comfortable across the stack: UI components, API design, and databases.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies like AI and infrastructure.

Responsabilités

• Design and implement scalable serverless solutions leveraging AWS technologies.
• Own the full development lifecycle from ideation to monitoring in production.
• Collaborate extensively with various roles to align on solutions.

Connaissances

Technical direction setting

Production software experience (7+ years)

Strong TypeScript proficiency

Responsive web applications with React

Cross-stack development

Serverless architectures knowledge

Collaboration in cross-functional teams

Problem-solving mindset

Exposure to search platforms (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch)

AWS or cloud platform familiarity

SQL (Postgres) experience

NoSQL (DynamoDB, DocumentDB) experience

.NET framework experience

Outils

Git

Docker

Jira

Terraform

Description du poste

Skills And Competencies

Must have

• You've set technical direction for teams, influenced org-wide standards, and solved novel problems at scale
• Proven experience shipping production software (minimum 7 years, end-to-end feature ownership).
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript for both frontend and backend development.
• Experience building responsive web applications using modern React patterns.
• Comfortable working across the stack: UI components, API design, and database queries.
• Knowledge of serverless architectures (AWS Lambda, ECS, or equivalent).
• Comfortable collaborating in a cross-functional environment.
• Curiosity about emerging technologies (AI, infrastructure, developer tools).
• Strong problem-solving mindset; ability to turn vague requirements into working solutions.
• Exposure to search platforms (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch) or ETL pipelines.
• Familiarity with AWS services or equivalent cloud platforms.
• Experience with SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, DocumentDB) databases.
• Experience building .net framework asp.net websites.

Good to have

• Ability to evaluate trade-offs between data models and query patterns.
• Exposure to search platforms (OpenSearch, Elasticsearch) or ETL pipelines.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices and tools (Git, Docker, Jira; Terraform is a plus).
• Understanding of event-driven systems, asynchronous processing, and distributed architectures.
• Experience with serverless architectures (Lambda, ECS, or equivalent)

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable serverless solutions leveraging AWS Lambda, ECS, and event-driven architectures to handle unpredictable traffic spikes without performance degradation.
• Influence cross-team architecture and standards across 40+ squads, balancing autonomy with platform consistency and managing complex dependencies.
• Own the full development lifecycle—from ideation and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring in production.
• Solve ambiguous and complex problems, including unclear requirements, evolving business needs, and production incidents—going beyond ticket-based work to define what needs to be built.
• Collaborate extensively with product managers, designers, data engineers, and other developers to align on technical and business solutions.
• Ensure high-quality code and maintainability through best practices in testing, code reviews, and continuous integration/deployment.
• Contribute to architectural decisions that optimize for scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency in a cloud-native environment.
• Deliver full‑stack features across a modern TypeScript ecosystem (React + Module Federation frontend, NodeJS serverless backend) serving millions of users making critical financial decisions.
• Champion performance and security standards, ensuring robust solutions for sensitive financial data.
• Stay proactive in knowledge sharing, mentoring peers, and contributing to documentation and internal tooling improvements.
• Adapt quickly to changing priorities, new technologies, and evolving business requirements in a fast‑paced environment.

About The Team

You'll build the technology infrastructure that powers financial decision-making for banks, lenders, and institutional investors worldwide. Moody's Analytics provides decision intelligence to clients managing trillions in assets. When our platforms go down, clients lose money. When our GenAI products deliver bad outputs, trust erodes. Your code has real consequences.

We're the innovation engine of a 100+ year-old company. Legacy brand, startup energy. That means cutting‑edge technology (40 squads, 8 dedicated GenAI teams) backed by the resources and domain expertise to do it right. You'll have the autonomy of a startup (40 squads moving fast) with the distribution of an enterprise (your work immediately reaches clients managing trillions).

If you want to work on hard problems at scale, with actual impact, this is it.

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.