Software Engineer

Position Title: Software Engineer

The Area: The Morningstar Indexes Team leverages its expertise in equity research, manager research, asset allocation, and portfolio construction to create innovative investment solutions. It uses Morningstar’s intellectual property to create indexes that empower investors to achieve their goals at every stage of the investment process—market monitoring, benchmarking, and asset allocation. The fast-growing business offers a broad suite of global equity, bond, commodity and asset allocation indexes.

The Role: The team is looking for forward-thinking problem solvers who thrive in a fast-paced environment. In this role, you will collaborate with the team lead, Scrum Master, business analysts, QA, and other developers to build technology solutions for Morningstar’s Indexes applications using a variety of technologies including AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB), Spring-boot microservices, Kafka, and Docker. You will support existing systems, study their enterprise complexities and develop/implement new systems with modern software development practices. You will need to develop a good understanding of the existing systems and the data model. You need to be passionate about technology, curious, and able to learn and experiment independently. You should have a strong understanding of object-oriented principles and design patterns, and familiarity with multiple programming languages, and exposure to different architectures.

Responsibilities:

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  Participate in Agile ceremonies, design sessions, and help develop and maintain the software code base of Indexes in both traditional and cloud-based architectures
• Help implement software solutions that meet product requirements and quality needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, schedules and adherence to Indexes goals and principles.
• Bring new ideas to the team and promote innovation

Requirements:

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  Completed Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

• Minimum of 3 years of experience developing software solutions, preferably in a Unix environment.

• Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills

• Strong knowledge of Java

• Experience with Spring and Spring-Boot

• Experience implementing RESTful APIs and microservices

• Hands on experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases (preferably MS SQL/DynamoDB/Athena).

• Experience with modern development practices in areas of product design, requirement analysis, test driven development, and test automation

• Well versed with Linux operating system and commands needed for code development.

• Experience in analysis, design, coding and implementation of distributed systems
• Be aware of activity in the open source world. Contributing back to open source is a big plus.

Good to Have:

• Knowledge/Certification of AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Athena, Glue)
• Knowledge of JVM tuning and profiling
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, or other containerization platforms
• Knowledge of messaging/streaming technologies (Kafka, JMS, Spark, etc.)
• Knowledge of web UI frameworks like Angular/React/Vue.js
• Knowledge of Python, C#, Node.js
• Exposure to Capital Market domain (Indexes, Equities, etc.)

EOE Statement:

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.

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