Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Insurance Analytics

Moody's; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 203,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Completion bonus

Insurance

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Moody's is seeking an experienced backend-focused engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable risk analytics platforms. You will work with data scientists and product teams to translate complex requirements into robust services, APIs, and tests.

The role emphasizes architectural excellence, code reviews, and adopting new tools to improve reliability and performance across insurance analytics capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM field with 7+ years of relevant hands-on industry experience.
• Master's degree in a STEM field with 4+ years of relevant hands-on industry experience.
• PhD degree in a STEM field with 2+ years of relevant hands-on industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain robust, scalable back-end systems that power high-performance insurance analytics applications.
• Design, build, and maintain extensible back-end services and web applications with a focus on architecture, scalability, and reliability.
• Participate in technical design discussions and provide expert input across the back-end technology stack.
• Perform code reviews and technical analysis to ensure code quality, maintainability, and alignment with engineering standards.
• Develop and maintain unit and end-to-end tests to ensure system performance and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with product, data science, and machine learning partners to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Evaluate new tools and technologies and provide recommendations to continuously improve the back-end technology stack.
• Own critical components of back-end development, demonstrating strong technical judgment and collaboration skills.

Skills

Python

SQL

Ruby

AI concepts

Backend design

Problem solving

Learning new tech

Communication

GIS

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM with 7+ years

Master's degree in STEM with 4+ years

PhD in STEM with 2+ years

Tools

Git

RESTful services

Cloud platforms (AWS)

ML tooling / AI frameworks

Job description

Moody's is seeking an experienced backend-focused engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable risk analytics platforms. You will work with data scientists and product teams to translate complex requirements into robust services, APIs, and tests.

The role emphasizes architectural excellence, code reviews, and adopting new tools to improve reliability and performance across insurance analytics capabilities.