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Brief Description

At RMS, we believe we are at a moment in time when the market and world dynamics around risk have changed massively, demanding new approaches. And with technology consistently evolving and innovating, we can enable compelling new risk solutions to meet emerging risks, opportunities, and challenges. It's a time of disruption and transformation.

Our vision is to create a more resilient and sustainable global society by better understanding risk. With every breakthrough and new idea, we get closer to making this a worldwide reality. From AI and machine learning to leading-edge modeling and software development, we are focused on transforming catastrophe risk and building global opportunities.

In a culture built on trust and empowerment, every RMS employee is challenged to bring bold thinking and new ideas to the table. Our work is advancing the risk management industry and helping make the world more resilient. The challenge is immense and meaningful, which is why the best and brightest choose RMS.

Description

RMS looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be part of a team responsible for designing and developing the critical business applications in the Core Products suite.

RMS looking for a Staff Software Engineer to be part of a team responsible for designing and developing the critical business applications in the Core Products suite. The Software Development group focuses on developing and building cutting-edge, high-performance enterprise software solutions that deliver risk quantification tools to our clients worldwide.

You will use best-of-breed technology from established vendors such as Oracle Java and open-source technology. As a Software Engineer, you will have the opportunity to play a key role in designing, developing, and innovating together as you bring your considerable software engineering skills to our dynamically growing organization.

What You'll Be Doing

• Collaborate and work with technical leads to design and build complex solutions.
• Identify opportunities for further enhancements and refinements to standards, processes, and systems.
• Superb communication skills, and the ability to work directly with business leaders, providing technical expertise across Cloud offerings and on-premises offerings.
• Experience contributing throughout the Software Development Life Cycle experience including planning, designing, development, unit testing, other testing, and debugging.
• Create design documents, code, unit/functional tests, document and implement new programs and subprograms, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software.
• Required experience and skills:
• Strong understanding of selecting and utilizing appropriate data structures and algorithms to create running programs.
• Define solutions in terms of components, modules, and algorithms.
• Defines and communicates the architecture standards, and guidelines by facilitating the design and establishment of architecture standards or controls.
• Bachelor's Degree (or master’s degree) in Mathematics or Computer Science.
• Design and develop a microservices-based application using Vue.js / JavaScript/ Nux.js or others.
• Building UI components library which will reuse in multiple projects.
• Experience in collecting high-level requirements and translating them into technical solutions.
• 10+ years of JavaScript programming experience; proven track record of on-time delivery
• Creates architectures for large-scale, high-impact technology solutions by collaborating with other architects/leads to develop the target state.
• Provide technical guidance, direction, and problem-solving to engineering team members.
• Prepare design documents; evaluate and recommend solutions to meet user requirements; define and implement solutions.
• Participate and help in the integration of architecture solutions, design patterns, technical strategies, and roadmaps.
• Sound working knowledge of writing complex reusable UI components, microservices style of architecture, and rest API's.
• In-depth understanding of coding languages JavaScript/TypeScript and frameworks (Vue.js, React.js, etc.)
• Optimizing components for maximum performance across a vast array of web-capable devices and browsers

Desirable experience and skills:

• Experience in test-driven development (Jest/Mocha/Jasmine)
• Expert in Vuejs or ReactJS Framework
• Understanding of material design, CSS flexbox, color theory, typography, composition, and iconography a plus
• Experience with Object Oriented JavaScript and modern JavaScript libraries (e.g., Closure, jQuery, Node)

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.

Visit RMS.com to learn more and follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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 $160,000.00 to $240,500.00, 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 [email protected].

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.