Senior Software Engineer
Our Team:
Technology drives our business. Our team is made up of talented software engineers, infrastructure engineers, leaders and UX professionals. We care about technology as a craft and a differentiator. We bring our global products to market with a mix of software, cloud, data centers, infrastructure, design and grit.
Our Product Groups:
Individual Investor – building products like Morningstar.com and mobile apps for individuals like yourself
Institutional Investor – developing some of our flagship products like Morningstar Direct for institutional investors and our Advisor products for financial advisors
Workplace – this is where we build and provide our hosted digital advice platform for Retirement plans, 401K’s, etc. (what some call robo-advisors)
Data – this is the heart of Morningstar where all data is sourced, collected, transformed, calculated and distributed across the world
The Role:
At Morningstar, helping investors is what brings us together and drives our work. We are looking for software engineers who are pro’s with .NET and SQL to join our team, grow with us, introduce us to new ideas and develop products that empower our users. 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 bring knowledge and excitement about our opportunities. These positions are based in our Chicago office.
Responsibilities
• Build well-designed, well-engineered, stable, and scalable products across a variety of markets
• Good working experience in OO analysis & design using common design patterns
• Follow software design best practices such as continuous integration, test-driven development, and regular deployments.
• Solve investors’ problems with technology, understanding market chaos at work and crafting technically appropriate interactive experiences to communicate effectively with individual investors.
• Be passionate about quality, process, programming, and investing in general, seeing opportunities for improvement, seizing them, and then sharing your findings with others.
• 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.
• Help to shape product vision.
Requirements
• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field in software development with more than 5 years of experience.
• Recent experience working with the following technologies: Web technologies (HTML/CSS/Javascript), ASP.Net MVC, SSIS, Stored Procedures, SQL/T-SQL, Entity Framework, LINQ, XML, Unity (or other dependency injection framework).
• Adept with MS SQL Server, including ability to design/implement ETL solutions to solve data integration needs.
• Experience working with DevExpress ASP.Net MVC controls is a plus.
• Working knowledge of the Microsoft stack and integrating with other technologies.
• Working experience architecting AWS solutions
• Experience of DevOps with AWS CLI & Lambda and good to have knowledge of tools like Jenkins and Udeploy
• Experience with full stack development, including web and database development.
• Be organized and able to remain productive even when you have multiple deliverables.
• An understanding of how to protect web applications from common security vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, domain modeling, and building highly scalable and available systems.
Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.
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