Senior Software Engineer

Fitch-Group; New York (NY); On-site; USD 135,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Work-Life Balance

Learning & Mobility

Retirement planning

Healthcare

Parental leave

Volunteer days

Job summary

Fitch Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our New York City office, focusing on engineering and data quality. You will contribute to building an AWS-based data platform, enabling enterprise-wide self-service for AI, analytics, and insights.

You will collaborate across teams to implement data ingestion, transformation, and distribution frameworks, while championing modern technologies like AI and cloud-native architectures.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Data Management or Architecture.
• Strong AWS expertise (S3, EKS, Lambda, Glue, Redshift, RDS/Aurora).
• Experience applying AI/ML to boost engineering productivity and data workflows.
• Proven experience with Python data engineering (Pandas, Spark/PySpark) and API development.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data platforms aligned with business priorities.
• Collaborate with CDO team and data product leads to enable enterprise self-service and AI readiness.
• Establish best practices for data ingestion, transformation, and distribution to accelerate insights.
• Lead backend services using Java, microservices, Spring Boot, REST/GraphQL in cloud-native architectures.

Skills

Python

Spark

REST APIs

AWS

Tools

GitHub Copilot

FastAPI

Spring Boot

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Software Engineer

Location: New York, NY, US

Fitch Group is currently seeking a Engineering & Quality – Senior Software Engineer based out of our New York City office.

As a leading, global financial information services provider, Fitch Group delivers vital credit and risk insights, robust data, and dynamic tools to champion more efficient, transparent financial markets. With over 100 years of experience and colleagues in over 30 countries, Fitch Group’s culture of credibility, independence, and transparency is embedded throughout its structure, which includes Fitch Ratings, one of the world’s top three credit ratings agencies, and Fitch Solutions, a leading provider of insights, data and analytics. With dual headquarters in London and New York, Fitch Group is owned by Hearst.

Fitch's Technology & Data Team is a dynamic department where innovation meets impact. Our team includes the Chief Data Office, Chief Software Office, Chief Technology Office, Emerging Technology, Shared Technology Services, Technology, Risk and the Executive Program Management Office (EPMO).Driven by our investment in cutting-edge technologies like AI and cloud solutions, we’re home to a diverse range of roles and backgrounds united by a shared passion for leveraging modern technology to drive projects that matter to our organization and clients. We are also proud to be recognized by Built In as a “Best Place to Work in Technology” 3 years in a row. Whether you're an experienced professional or just starting your career, we offer an exciting and supportive environment where you can grow, innovate, and make a difference.

Want to learn more about a career in technology and data at Fitch?

• Contribute as a member of a high-performing data engineering team, by implementing modern scalable data solutions aligned with business priorities.
• Partner with the CDO team and data product leaders to implement the vision for an AWS-based data platform that enables enterprise-wide self-service, unlocking data for AI, analytics, and innovation.
• Implement architectural decisions and establish best practices for data ingestion, transformation, and distribution frameworks that accelerate time-to-insight for data producers and consumers.
• Champion adoption of emerging technologies such as Agentic AI and Generative AI, integrating advanced capabilities into data workflows to enhance user experience and position the organization as “AI-Ready.”
• Ensure operational excellence and reliability by proactively addressing complex data engineering challenges, implementing robust quality controls, and preventing production incidents.

You May be a Good Fit if:

• Hands-on Solution Archtiect with 8+ years of experience in Data Management, expertise in designing, building, and governing enterprise-scale data management solutions that enable high-quality, trusted, and accessible data across the organization. This role combines strategic architecture leadership with hands-on technical implementation across Master Data Management (MDM e.g. Informatica), Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Quality, APIs, Cloud Data Platforms, and Analytics ecosystems.
• Proven AWS expertise (S3, EKS, Lambda, Glue, EMR, Redshift, S3, RDS/Aurora, Valkey/Redis, Step Functions, MSK/Kafka, Event Bridge), AWS Certification strongly preferred
• Experience applying AI/ML to boost engineering productivity (GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q).
• In-depth experience in Python for data engineering (Pandas, Spark/PySpark) and API Development (FastAPI or similar).
• Lead the design and development of mission-critical backend services leveraging Java, Micoservice architecture, Spring Boot, REST APIs, GraphQL, and cloud-native architectures, while promoting coding standards, performance optimization, and best practices.
• Experience in optimized query patterns, pagination, caching, and schema design to ensure low-latency, performant reads at scale.
• Experince in in-memory database e.g. Valkey, Elastic Search, Redis, OpenSearch
• Expericen is CI/CD,GitHub, Git/GitHub workflows, ArgoCD.
• Ability to solve complex data-driven requirements and triage towards defects and production bugs

What Would Make You Stand Out:

• Hands-on experience building AI agents (e.g., using LangChain or LlamaIndex), implementing RAG over enterprise data, and enforcing robust guardrails through rigorous testing and evaluation.
• Applying AI/ML to boost engineering productivity (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q) and using agentic AI to automate workflows such as code reviews, test generation, data quality checks, and runbook execution.
• Experience working with AI connection protocols (e.g., MCP, A2A) that ensure secure, interoperable, observable, and vendor-agnostic communication with authenticated, auditable messaging and robust error handling
• Caching with Valkey/Redis: TTL strategies, invalidation, key design.
• Experience with forming strong partnerships with stakeholders and product teams
• Great interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Ability to translate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Why Choose Fitch:

• Work-Life Balance First: 40% in-office monthly stay connected while keeping flexibility.
• A Culture of Learning & Mobility: Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to ensure that your time at Fitch will be a continuous learning opportunity
• Investing in Your Future: Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs that empower you to achieve your short and long-term goals
• Promoting Health & Wellbeing: Comprehensive healthcare offerings that enable physical, mental, financial, social, and occupational wellbeing
• Supportive Parenting Policies: Family-friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan, designed to help you balance career and family life effectively
• Inclusive Work Environment : A collaborative workplacewhere all voices are valued, withEmployee Resource Groups that unite and empower our colleagues around the globe
• Dedication to Giving Back: Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and ample opportunities to volunteer in your community

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward-looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interest or any appearance of a conflict of interest. Should you be successful in the recruitment process at Fitch Ratings you will be asked to declare any securities holdings and other potential conflicts prior to commencing employment. If you, or your immediate family, have any holdings that may conflict with your work responsibilities, you may be asked to divest yourself of them before beginning work.

Fitch is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affimative Action Employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status, and other statuses protected by law.

FOR NEW YORK ROLES ONLY: Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $135,000 and $145,000per year. Actual salaries will be determined on an individualized basis and may vary based on factors including but not limited to education, training, experience, past performance, and other job‑related factors. Base pay is one part of Fitch’s total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, discretionary bonuses, long‑term incentives, and other benefits sponsored by Fitch.