Sr Software Engineer - Data Feeds & RatingsDB, Technology

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer - Data Feeds & RatingsDB

Department: Technology

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: PA or Remote (Remote only in CA, CO, DC, FL, IL, MD, NJ, MA, NY, PA, SC, TX, VA)

Summary/Overview:

We are seeking a Data Engineer focused on building highly available, large-scale, low latency data platforms to join our engineering team. You should be a talented, and motivated candidate who will get involved immediately by solving problems and
collaborating with the team to build out the platform.

About Us:

KBRA is a global full-service rating agency with a mission to set a standard of excellence and integrity.  Established in 2010, KBRA remains dedicated to the restoration of trust in credit ratings by setting new standards for assessing risk and by offering timely and transparent ratings. KBRA provides market participants with an alternative solution by delivering in-depth research, products and tools needed to make informed investment decisions across various sectors within the U.S. and European markets.

Products include:  KBRA Analytics, KBRA Altman, KBRA Credit Profile, KBRA DLD, KBRA Financial Intelligence (KFI), KBRA Premium and Ratings Feed. 

KBRA has issued more than 60,000 ratings valued at $3.16 trillion in rating issuance. The agency employs 525 professionals globally with offices located in New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Dublin (Ireland) and London (UK).
About the Team:

We believe that small, empowered teams can do amazing things. Across the engineering organization, we work hard to make the best systems for our customers using modern engineering practices. We are intentional in our investments in time, and effort around creating a safe, and successful workplace for our team members to succeed. We understand that software development, and engineering goes beyond the 1’s and 0’s and strive to root it fully into valuable outcomes for our customers. Our engineering team is a highly collaborative unit that is responsible for creating enterprise data distribution applications and backend APIs for our external customers. Working directly with our stakeholders and end-users, the team builds toward the vision of delivering a high quality for our external customers.
Job Responsibilities:

You will join an existing team who are building a well-defined product vision. The team operates in a highly collaborative way, and you will be involved in all aspects of design, delivery, and support of the team’s products. You will work with the whole team on adding features to the product continuously, and iteratively. You will collaborate with existing teams to learn our domain, and its unique challenges, while providing value to our customers. You will also collaborate with other KBRA engineering teams, and enablement teams (platform, security, and UX, for example) to develop, build, run and support our products.

Key Job Qualifications:

• Can work in a collaborative fashion
• Communicate technical ideas clearly
• Have a sense of ownership and craftsmanship around the code base
• Be mindful of application security and familiar with accessibility standards
• Take pride in learning and want opportunities to learn throughout your day-today
• Possess a Pragmatic Mindset

Technical:

Must Haves:

• 5+ years of experience with Node.js
• Experience working with enterprise systems, in an agile environment
• Relational and non-relational databases
• ETL Processes
• Data modeling
• Automated Database Migrations
• Experience with containerized deployment (Docker)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)
• AWS (DMS, RDS, S3)
• Disaster Recover/Data Recovery
• Excellent communication skills
• Excellent debugging, issue resolution, and troubleshooting skills

Nice to have:

• Experience in working with Event Streams
• Pub/Sub experience

What does success look like?

• Integrate features into the product, using (and improving) our CI/CD pipelines
• Overall technical quality of the product continues to improve
• You contribute alongside other team members, and the team's health metrics continue to improve

Salary Range:

The anticipated annual base salary range for this full-time position is $110,000 to $135,000. Offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience, skills, geography, and other job-related factors.

KBRA Benefits

• A hybrid work schedule and flex hours (fully remote work schedules are an option for most Technology employees)
• Competitive benefits and paid time off
• Paid family and disability leave
• 401(k) plan, including employer match (100% vested)
• Educational and professional development financial assistance
• Employee referral bonus program
• Cell phone reimbursement

More Info

KBRA encourages applications from all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, marital status, citizenship, disability, and veteran status or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local law.

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