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 Index's applications using a variety of technologies including AWS (ECS, SQS, SNS, S3, RDS), Spring-boot microservices, Kafka, and Docker. You will support existing systems, study their 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.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain the software code base of Indexes in both traditional and cloud-based architectures. Hands-on, full-stack development will be an integral part of the responsibilities.
• 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.
• Collaborate with the team on good object-oriented designs & domain modeling. Follow good development practices like test driven development, and continuous integration.
• Bring new ideas to the team and promote innovation

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering
• Minimum of 2 years of experience developing software solutions
• Excellent listening, written, and verbal communication skills
• Strong knowledge of Java or equivalent object-oriented language (such as C#)
• Experience with Spring and Spring Boot
• Experience with Python
• Experience implementing RESTful APIs and microservices
• Hands on experience with SQL databases (preferably PostgreSQL)
• Experience with modern development practices in areas of product design, requirement analysis, test driven development, and test automation
• Experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of distributed systems
• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies

Good to Have:

• Knowledge/Certification in AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, Athena)
• Knowledge of JVM tuning and profiling
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, or other containerization platforms
• Knowledge of Terraform, Jenkins, Nexus, or other deployment/CI tools.
• Knowledge of messaging/streaming technologies (Kafka, JMS, Spark, Flink, etc.)
• Knowledge of modern web UI frameworks like Vue.js/React/Angular
• Knowledge of Node.js, C#
• Experience with Pandas, NumPy
• Exposure to Capital Market domain (Indexes, Equities, etc.)
• Be aware of activity in the open-source world. Contributing back to open source is a big plus.

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 (medical/dental/vision) including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually) for specific plansand coverages
  • Additional medical Wellness Incentives - up to $300-$600 annual
  • Company-provided long- and short-term disabilityinsurance

• Emotional Health
  • Trust-Based Time Off
  • 6-week Paid Sabbatical Program
  • 6-Week Paid Family Caregiving Leave
  • Competitive 8-24 Week Paid Parental Bonding Leave
  • Adoption Assistance
  • Leadership Coaching & Formal MentorshipOpportunities
  • Annual Education Stipend
  • Tuition Reimbursement

• Social Health
  • Charitable Matching Gifts program
  • Dollars for Doers volunteer program
  • Paid volunteering days
  • 15+ Employee Resource & Affinity Groups

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Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis, typically three days 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.