Frontend Software Engineer Jobs

About the role: The Advisor Client Experience team creates software solutions for both Advisors and Individual Investors. Our primary mission is to Empower Investor Success. We are looking for a smart and energetic Frontend Software Engineer to join a squad creating Data Integrations for one of our flagship products: Morningstar Advisor Workstation (which reaches over 180,000 advisors globally).
In this role, you will collaborate with customers, product owners, project managers, and the tech team to design, develop, and support software using technologies such as JaveScript Framework like Vue.js/Node.js, Amazon Web Services and .NET . You will have an ownership mindset, taking responsibility for ensuring best practices and quality adherence through code reviews and unit tests. Every day, you’ll work with team members across disciplines developing products for investors. You’ll interact daily with our product managers to understand our domain and create technical solutions that push us forward. We want to work with other engineers who will bring their knowledge and excitement to our opportunities.
Job responsibilities:

• Take ownership of the success of the team with a "gets things done" attitude; the ability to understand and leverage new technologies, potentially wearing many hats including business analyst, DBA, QA, and project manager
• Enforce good Agile practices (using JIRA) including test-driven development and continuous integration
• Solve investors’ problems with technology, understanding market chaos at work and crafting technically appropriate interactive experiences to communicate effectively with individual investors
• Stay up to date on emerging technologies
• Promote usability and coding best practices
• Analyze and remediate production issues and build instrumentation and operational readiness into the systems architecture
• Build well designed, well-engineered, stable, scalable products across a variety of markets

Qualifications:

• Experience with DevOps engineering concepts
• Be organized and able to remain productive even when you have multiple deliverables
• Experience on Cloud with AWS Lambdas, S3, DynamoDB, Jenkins will be plus
• Be passionate about quality, process, programming, and investing in general, seeing opportunities for improvement, seizing them, and then sharing your findings with others
• 3+ years of software development experience
• Experience with designing and building web applications and REST APIs.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, domain modeling, design patterns, and building highly scalable and available systems
• 1+ years of hands on experience on developing commercial quality web applications using JavaScript framework/libraries – Vue.js, Node.js, .Net Core, OOJS, HTML, CSS, JQuery, AJAX, Cross Browser Compatibility, Responsive Designs
• Highly motivated individual with the potential and desire to learn new technologies and take on an increasing level of responsibility within the technology team
• Full stack experience with C# and the Microsoft .Net Framework/.Net Core / SQL is a strong plus
• An understanding of how to protect web applications from common security vulnerabilities
• Experience working in Scrum-based methodologies a plus

Nice to have:

• Experience delivering enterprise grade software solutions and systems
• Amazon web services experience

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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. 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.