Senior Software Engineer for the Engines Team in Bellevue, WA

We are looking for a talented Senior Software Engineer with experience in distributed computation, data processing, and building scalable cloud services. As a member of the model engines team, you will build engines that simulate risk of natural, human-generated, and climate disasters. The engines you build will allow customers to make informed, multi-billion-dollar decisions with global impact.

RMS Model Engines Team:

The Engines Team develops key backend engines that perform distributed execution of catastrophe models. Team contributes to multiple impactful areas, including:

• Create high-performance computational engines used in catastrophe modeling
• Optimize complex numerical computing task to run fast on the Cloud
• Productize and optimize new models and engines.

As a Senior Software Development Engineer, you are expected to drive solutions from end-to-end in a fast-paced, ambiguous, agile, SaaS engineering environment. You will contribute to design and development. You should be able to work independently, juggling multiple items concurrently while contributing to multiple areas within a large software project. You must be able to dive into any existing code as keeping the live site fully operational is always a priority. Your technical ability and leadership will manifest in the wide-ranging scope and far-reaching scale of your impact. You will mentor junior engineers while interacting comfortably with other team members along the way.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of programming experience; proven track record of on-time delivery
• Degree in computer sciences or related fields
• Experience writing production-level code in Java, C#, C++ or Scala
• Passion for software quality and performant algorithms
• Experience with cloud-native development (AWS, Azure, GCP etc.)
• Demonstrable knowledge of the classical data structures and algorithms, understand their runtime and space-time complexity.
• Demonstrable skills in analytic computing and algorithms
• Demonstrable knowledge of programming concepts such as multi-threading, memory management, and query processing

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• 7+ years of experience
• Experience in performance tuning, bottleneck analysis, and resource usage monitoring
• Advanced degree in computer sciences or related fields.
• Experience with SQL and No-SQL databases
• Experience with distributing processing.
• Familiarity with probabilistic and stochastic computational techniques.
• Experience computing in highly distributed cloud systems.
• Prior history with agile development

ABOUT RMS:

Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS) models and solutions help insurers, financial markets, corporations, and public agencies evaluate and manage global risk throughout the world. RMS has some 1,300 employees across 13 offices in the US, London, Bermuda, Zurich, India, China, Japan, Singapore, and Australia, with products and models covering six continents.

We lead an industry that we helped to pioneer—catastrophe risk modeling – and continue to innovate. In May 2019, we announced the launch of RMS Risk Intelligence™ (RI), an open, flexible and future-proof platform for strategic risk management. Through this purpose-built platform, clients can tap into RMS HD models, rich data layers, intuitive applications and APIs that simply integrate into existing enterprise systems to support business decisions across underwriting, risk selection, mitigation and portfolio management.

Insurers, reinsurers, trading companies, and other financial institutions trust RMS solutions to better understand and manage the risks of natural and human-made catastrophes, including hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, terrorism, and pandemics.

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RMS is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, creed, gender, religion, marital status, registered domestic partner status, age, national origin or ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic characteristics, sexual orientation, or any other classification protected by applicable local, state, or federal law.

For US-based roles only: the anticipated hiring base salary range for this position is $130,000.00 $195,500.00, 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 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 an accommodation, or need assistance with completing the application process, please email accomodations@moodys.com.

To all recruitment agencies: RMS does not accept unsolicited agency resumes and will not be responsible for the payment of placement fees related to unsolicited resumes submitted to open positions, job aliases, or to our employees.