Let's begin! Staff Software Engineer-AI

Company : Moody's Corporation

Job Type : Full Time

London, United Kingdom

Job Description - Let's begin! Staff Software Engineer-AI

Skills and Competencies

8+ years of experience in software engineering, with deep hands-on experience designing, coding, testing, and operating scalable, resilient, production-grade backend systems and cloud-native services

Expert-level coding capability in modern programming languages such as Python, TypeScript, Go, or similar, with the ability to personally contribute high-quality production code while guiding technical direction

Deep hands-on expertise building enterprise AI applications using large language models, AI agents, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering, orchestration frameworks, evaluation methods, and model optimisation techniques

Proven ability to take complex AI solutions from prototype to production, making practical engineering trade-offs across performance, scalability, reliability, security, maintainability, and cost

Expert knowledge of cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, or Microsoft Azure, with strong experience using Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Container Service, or equivalent technologies in production environments

Strong experience designing and implementing application programming interfaces, distributed systems, event-driven architectures, data pipelines, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, vector databases, observability, and automated deployment pipelines

Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction while remaining close to the codebase, mentoring engineers through design reviews, code reviews, pairing, debugging, and hands-on problem solving

Deep expertise in artificial intelligence, with a track record of implementing advanced AI solutions to drive strategic transformation and operational efficiency. Strong experience using AI tools to lead innovation initiatives. Demonstrated leadership in managing AI-related risks, ensuring ethical governance, and fostering a culture of responsible AI adoption across the organization

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

Design, code, and lead delivery of scalable AI platforms and intelligent applications that bring emerging AI capabilities into production

Act as a hands-on technical leader, spending significant time designing, coding, reviewing, debugging, and improving production systems that support AI-powered products and services

Design and build scalable backend services, application programming interfaces, data pipelines, inference pipelines, and platform capabilities that support real-time and batch AI workloads at enterprise scale

Implement advanced large language model applications using retrieval-augmented generation, prompt orchestration, evaluation frameworks, model optimisation, agentic workflows, and tool integration

Make key technical decisions while remaining accountable for practical implementation quality, including code maintainability, system performance, reliability, security, scalability, and cost efficiency

Establish engineering best practices through hands-on contribution, code reviews, technical design reviews, automated testing, observability, monitoring, and operational excellence

Champion machine learning operations practices including model lifecycle management, prompt versioning, automated evaluation, deployment pipelines, monitoring, and continuous improvement

Partner with product managers, data scientists, machine learning engineers, engineering leaders, and business stakeholders to translate strategic priorities into robust, buildable technical solutions

Build reusable frameworks, libraries, developer tooling, and platform components that accelerate AI development across multiple teams without creating unnecessary abstraction or complexity

Evaluate emerging AI technologies through practical prototypes, proof-of-concept builds, and production-readiness assessments, then guide teams on implementation patterns and trade-offs

Mentor engineers through practical technical coaching, pairing, code reviews, design feedback, documentation, and example-setting as a senior individual contributor

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