Software Engineer, Search and Alerts

Fitch Group is seeking a Software Engineer based in our Chicago office.

• Demonstrate proficiency in full‑stack technologies for enterprise‑scale websites and applications.
• Work as part of an agile team in design, development, debugging, and deployment efforts while addressing security, cross‑browser and cross‑platform expectations and concerns.
• Understand the importance of design best practices, provide effective translation to code artifacts and implement appropriate integration approach for API/data layer.
• Partner with Product Owners and stakeholders to understand business needs, define and develop applications/architecture, design, review, implement and optimize engineering processes.
• Build data expertise and a deep understanding of business domain knowledge and own data quality for allocated areas of ownership.
• Maintain and enhance microservices‑based components for the application suite.
• Recommend, create and maintain development best practices and guidelines to be used across various applications.
• Write automated unit, integration, performance and visual regression test cases.
• Integrate test case execution with the CI/CD pipeline to better align with the Dev Sec Ops  strategy.
• Promote, implement and evolve development best practices especially on commits, versioning and dependency management.

• 1‑3 years’ experience developing distributed application architecture of moderate‑to‑high complexity.
• Experience with Java and associated open‑source frameworks such as Spring‑Boot and ELK (Elastic‑Logstash‑Kinesis).
• Working knowledge of AI/ML frameworks (Lang Chain, Llama Index, Auto Gen, etc.) and understand how Agentic AI can enhance software development workflows.
• Practical understanding of AI integration, including prompt engineering, RAG architectures, and vector database implementations.
• Familiarity with Model Context Protocol (MCP) or similar frameworks for enabling AI agents to interact securely and efficiently with data sources, APIs, and tools.
• Experience with search engines (preferably Elastic), search tuning and optimization.
• Experience with relational (e.g., Oracle/Postgres) and No
  
  SQL (e.g., Mongo
  
  DB/Dynamo
  
  DB) databases from a data storage and compute perspective.
• Experience in creating modern applications using microservices‑based architecture.
• Experience with build and deployment pipelines including frontend build and deployment using GIT, npm and Grunt.
• Experience working in high‑performance teams using Agile methodologies.
• Experience working in teams with a heavy emphasis on Security, Automation and Quality (Dev Sec Ops ).
• Excellent communication skills with ability to articulate ideas clearly and concisely.

• Exposure to agentic AI workflows and MCP Client/Server paradigm.
• Python and code for testing and use of Python frameworks (Pandas, Num Py, Requests).
• Exposure to AWS infrastructure – EC2 instances, S3 storage, Route 53, Cloud Front, Cloud Formation and networking (VPC, subnets, security groups) etc. Exposure to containerization and container orchestration.
• Exposure to Atlassian toolkits such as JIRA and Confluence.

• Hybrid Work Environment: 2 days a week in office required.
• A culture of learning & mobility:
  Dedicated trainings, leadership development and mentorship programs designed to support continuous learning.
• Investing in your future:
  Retirement planning and tuition reimbursement programs.
• Promoting health & wellbeing:
  Comprehensive healthcare offerings for physical, mental, financial, social and occupational wellbeing.
• Supportive parenting policies:
  Family‑friendly policies, including a generous global parental leave plan.
• An inclusive work environment:
  Employee Resource Groups unite and empower colleagues worldwide.
• A commitment to giving back:
  Paid volunteer days, matched funding for donations and opportunities to volunteer in your community.

Fitch is committed to providing global securities markets with objective, timely, independent and forward‑looking credit opinions. To protect Fitch’s credibility and reputation, our employees must take every precaution to avoid conflicts of interest or any appearance of a conflict of…