Associate Software Engineer, Credit Tech

About this role

Responsibilities

• **GEO/SEO****:** Leverage GEO engineering best practices to help ensure Morningstar DBRS Content is indexed by top AI assistants such that people use popular AI assistants like ChatGPT/Gemini etc. and search for credit ratings related content or data, these tools should surface Morningstar DBRS content and refer users to dbrs.morningstar.com website.
• **Prompt Engineering****:** The practice of designing, refining, and optimizing input prompts to guide AI models (such as large language models, e.g., GPT-4) toward generating high-quality, relevant, and accurate outputs.
• **Cutting Edge AI Development****:** Use latest AI techniques and tools like computer use to drive to power accelerated Insights, Discovery and Action.
• **Backend & Data Development:** Support the design and development of backend services to handle data processing, publication, and delivery to downstream applications. Assist in developing APIs and cloud-native components using AWS services.
• **Application Maintenance & Modernization:** Help maintain, refactor, and migrate existing applications and services to modern, scalable AWS-based architectures.
• **Collaboration:** Work closely with senior engineers, product teams, data engineers, and DevOps/SRE partners to align backend and cloud solutions with business needs.
• **Engineering Practices:** Write clean, maintainable, and testable code. Participate in code reviews and adhere to modern engineering standards.
• **Learning & Growth:** Stay up to date on AWS cloud technologies and AI-assisted development tools. Demonstrate curiosity about applying AI and automation to improve engineering productivity and system efficiency.

Qualifications

• **Problem-Solving:** Ability to analyze technical challenges, propose solutions, and deliver reliable results with guidance.
• **Methodology:** Familiarity with Agile/Scrum practices and modern software development methodologies.
• **Security Awareness:** Basic understanding of se...