Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

Tackle complex development tasks. Utilize extensive expertise to design and implement intricate solutions that meet product requirements and quality needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, schedules and adherence to Wealth group goals and principles (20%). Collaborate with team members to implement technology solutions for Wealth group applications using a variety of technologies including AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDB), Spring-boot microservices and Docker (10%). Mentor and support junior developers, foster their growth by providing guidance, sharing knowledge, and nurturing their technical skills (10%). Introduce and follow good development practices, innovative frameworks, and technology solutions that help business move faster. Make recommendations for process improvements such as CI/CD and automated testing approaches (10%). Mentor other engineers in code reviews to follow best practices for technical and domain standards (5%). Act as a role model to the team, collaborating on good object-oriented designs & domain modeling (5%). Follow best Agile practices like sprint planning, retrospective, estimation, reporting, and ensure seamless collaboration within the team to deliver high quality software within iterative cycles (5%). Support and improve critical products and legacy systems (5%). Analyze and remediate production issues and vulnerabilities quickly, build instrumentation, and operational readiness into the systems architecture (5%). Work closely with cross functional teams, QA teams and other development teams globally to ensure a timely and high-quality delivery and develop areas of continuous and automated deployment (5%). Serve as the software guardian. Take leadership responsibility for non-functional requirements, architectural and technical direction (5%). Lead design discussions, offer valuable input, share ideas, and collaborate with team members to shape effective and innovative design solutions in both traditional and cloud-based architectures (5%). Remain current on emerging technologies (5%). Promote usability best practices (5%). **Remote work requests will be considered consistent with company’s remote work policy.

Requirements:

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related Engineering fields, or foreign equivalent and 5 years of relevant programming experience in Software Engineer or related position. This position also requires: 4 years of experience in building and maintaining professional software; 4 years of experience in web development using Javascript and single page application frameworks (React, Vuejs, EmberJS); 4 years of experience in web development and building applications in JavaScript; 4 years of experience in developing REST API Web Services using NodeJs and ExpressJS; 4 years of experience with databases, including MySQL, Oracle SQL Server; 4 years of experience with Qunit, Jest, and Mocha Testing framework and Mocking Frameworks; 4 years of experience with Continuous Integration Tools Bitbucket, GitHub, Jenkins, IntelliJ, unit testing, and Jira; 4 years of experience working in an Agile environment including test driven development and CICD; 4 years of experience working with Amazon Web Services, including S3, CloudFront, ELB, SQS, EC2, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB; 2 years of experience with mentoring associate engineers in code quality; experience with Microservices or serverless applications; experience with supporting existing frameworks and internal tools, and environments; experience with infrastructure as code; experience with writing clean code and provide insights in code reviews; experience with software concepts, including: Design Patterns, HTTP(S), RESTful API, SSO, security, unit testing, modern browser features, and SQL scripts. **Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, and experience.

Must possess unrestricted right to work in the U.S. in this position

Base Salary Compensation: $148,949

Morningstar Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

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Compensation and Benefits

At Morningstar we believe people are at their best when they are at their healthiest. That’s why we champion your wellness through a wide-range of programs that support all stages of your personal and professional life. Here are some examples of the offerings we provide:

• Financial Health
  • 75% 401k match up to 7%
  • Stock Ownership Potential
  • Company provided life insurance - 1x salary + commission

• Physical Health 
  • Comprehensive health benefits