Senior AI-Driven Backend Engineer

Moody's Corporation; New York (NY); On-site; USD 133,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Parental leave

401(k) plan

Job summary

Moody's Corporation is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and operate backend services and AI-powered features for Moody's intelligent data products. You will own features end-to-end, from design to production, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and engineers in a fast-paced, AI-driven environment.

You will contribute to retrieval augmented generation workflows, orchestration frameworks, and tool integration, while ensuring reliability, security, and scalable

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience designing, coding, testing, and operating production-grade backend services and cloud-native applications.
• Strong coding proficiency in TypeScript, Python, C#, or similar technologies, with experience building scalable APIs, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience building enterprise AI applications using large language models, including agents, retrieval augmented generation, orchestration frameworks, and model optimization.
• Ability to own services end to end with limited supervision.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, serverless architectures, data pipelines, databases, observability, and CI/CD.
• Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, scalability, security, and performance trade-offs.
• Experience mentoring engineers and promoting engineering excellence.
• Proficiency in AI concepts and responsible AI practices.

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, and operates the services and AI-powered features behind Moody's intelligent data products as a senior contributor within the Digital Content and Innovation organization.
• Design, code, test, and operate backend services, APIs, data pipelines, and inference pipelines for real-time and batch AI workloads.
• Own the delivery of assigned features and components end to end, from design through deployment and production support.
• Build and enhance large language model features using retrieval augmented generation and orchestration frameworks.
• Contribute to technical designs, participate in design reviews, and identify risks and trade-offs.
• Maintain engineering excellence through automated testing, code reviews, observability, monitoring, and on-call support.
• Apply ML operations practices: prompt versioning, evaluation, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and production issue resolution.
• Partner with product managers, data scientists, ML engineers, and engineers to translate requirements into reliable software solutions.
• Mentor engineers, contribute to shared tooling, document designs and runbooks, and promote responsible AI practices.

Skills

Backend development

API design

AI & LLM

End-to-end ownership

Cloud-native

Algorithms & data structures

Mentoring

Responsible AI

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

TypeScript

Python

C#

NoSQL databases

Job description

Moody's Corporation is seeking a senior software engineer to design, build, and operate backend services and AI-powered features for Moody's intelligent data products. You will own features end-to-end, from design to production, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, and engineers in a fast-paced, AI-driven environment.

You will contribute to retrieval augmented generation workflows, orchestration frameworks, and tool integration, while ensuring reliability, security, and scalable