Senior Software Engineer at Morningstar

Senior Software Engineer

Job Responsibilities

• Serve as lead contributor in the methodologies for gathering labeled datasets, exploratory data analysis, feature engineering and rapid prototyping of Machine Learning models.
• Work on RESTful API development, creating tools for automation, infrastructure maintenance, CI/CD pipelines, writing clean code with good architectural principles.
• Work with various technical and product stakeholders and communicating progress, requirement analysis and demos.
• Research and develop appropriate Machine Learning Algorithms and tools.
• Run machine learning tests and experiments.
• Train machine learning algorithms for classification, named entity recognition, and anomaly detection including feature engineering, data cleanup and operationalizing of models.
• Write a suite of automated unit tests to individual units of the application.
• Architect and develop robust and scalable applications in Object oriented languages like Java and scripting languages like NodeJS and Python.
• Write infrastructure as Code in Terraform and deploy to Cloud. Deploy applications to the Cloud like Amazon Web Services.
• Use continuous and automated deployments like Jenkins.
• Follow agile methodology like scrum to deliver products to clients. Analyze the issues that occur in production and fix them.
• Document architecture design and related software functionality. Communicate architecture and functionality decisions/issues/solutions to colleagues and stakeholders.
• Guide and mentor junior members in the team. 

Job Requirements: 

Must possess a Master’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field  and 3 years of experience in the job offered or related. Alternatively, will accept a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related field plus 5 years of experience in the job offered or related.

Candidate should also have experience with:

• Python and Java
• relational databases like MySQL or MS SQL
• NoSQL databases like DynamoDb;
• Production grade applications, creating API/restful services and UI HTML javascript framework
• Terraform and cloudformation
• Writing, designing, performing, and loading unit tests
• Developing and deploying solutions using services in the Amazon AWS ecosystem. 

5% international travel required

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.