Lead Software Engineer Jobs

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Morningstar believes in empowering investors through research, data, design, and technology. Morningstar Direct (https://www.morningstar.com/products/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 & desktop technologies, cloud-based infrastructure, and a refreshed product strategy. Our core offering is complemented by a variety of reporting and analytical products including our next generation tool, Analytics Lab (https://www.morningstar.com/products/direct/analytics-lab). We aim to provide a first-class experience in accessing, analyzing, and reporting on Morningstar research and data. We are deeply inquisitive; we do not take “that’s just the way it’s always been done” or “that’s just best practice” as valid answers and instead seek to fine-tune our product development process for maximum impact. We are empowered professionals who are given problems to solve and not tickets to implement. We value team productivity over individual productivity and this culture of “giving” means we enjoy and highly value collaborating with our teammates.
About The Role
We are looking for a Lead 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. Every day, you’ll work with team members across disciplines developing products for our clients. 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 bring knowledge and excitement about our opportunities.
Job Responsibilities

• Analyze and remediate production issues and build instrumentation and operational readiness into the systems architecture.
• Build well designed, well-engineered, stable, scalable features and solutions for Morningstar Direct
• Manage development projects through the whole project life cycle.
• Apply DevOps practices in area of continuous and automated deployment.
• Be passionate about quality, process, programming, and investing in general, seeing opportunities for improvement, seizing them, and then sharing your findings with others.
• Enforce good Agile practices (using JIRA) including test-driven development and continuous integration.
• Mentoring and leading other members of the development team.
• Solve investors’ problems with technology, understanding market chaos at work and crafting technically appropriate interactive experiences to communicate effectively with individual investors.
• 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.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in JavaScript/Node.js, C#/.NET, or Java.
• Be organized and able to remain productive even when you have multiple deliverables.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Friendly and enjoys working in a collaborative team with excellent spoken and written communication skills. Humble, honest, and to the point.

Nice to have

• Experience with Visual C++.
• Experience with .NET.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services technologies like CloudFront, S3, API gateway, ECS, Elastic Search, and ElastiCache
• Experience working on databases like MSSQL, Postgres or any other relational database
• AWS certified developer certification
• Experience with Agile methodology and tools like JIRA.
• Experience scaling web-based software applications and services.
• An understanding of how to protect web applications and services from common security vulnerabilities.

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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.