Morningstar believes in empowering investors through research, data, design, and technology. Morningstar Direct () is Morningstar’s flagship software product that helps Asset and Wealth Managers build and manage their portfolios and communicate with their clients. Our team is modernizing the core Direct product using web technologies, cloud-based infrastructure, and a refreshed product strategy. Our core offering is complemented by a variety of reporting, analytical, and artificial intelligence tools. We aim to provide a first-class experience in accessing, analyzing, and reporting on Morningstar research and data. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who specializes in full-stack development on modern cloud-based infrastructure to join our team, grow with us, introduce us to new ideas and develop products that empower our users. You will have technical product ownership and responsibility for ensuring process and quality adherence through code reviews, test coverage and overall governance. You will act as the software guardian, owning non-functional requirements, and the quality of the code while addressing technical debt. You will be a co-owner of the product, responsible for its development and overall quality.
Technical product ownership and responsibility to adhere to established guidelines through peer reviews for design and code, unit test results and deployment process for improving development team productivity.
Manage development projects through the whole project life cycle.
Enforce good engineering practices like scalable and flexible architectures, modular software design, and good testing practices.
Build and maintain a scalable, robust build and deployment system that allows us to quickly, frequently, and safely push changes to production.
Apply DevOps practices in area of continuous and automated deployment.
Be hyper-focused on the stability and quality of the product.
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in building reactive Single-Page Web Applications.
Javascript application frameworks like Nuxt and Vue
Building and deploying containerized applications
Linux/Unix command line tools like Homebrew, AWS CLI, git, npm, yarn, etc.
~ Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
Experience scaling web-based software applications and services.
An understanding of how to protect web applications and services from common security vulnerabilities.
Experience with Amazon Web Services technologies like CloudFront, S3, API gateway, ECS, Elastic Search, and ElastiCache
Experience with other modern programming languages like C#, Java, Python, etc.
Experience building and maintaining automated continuous deployment pipelines
Experience building and maintaining automated testing tools
Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week.