Senior Software Engineer
The Role:
At Morningstar, helping investors is what brings us together and drives our work. We are looking for software engineers who specialize in Java and the Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) platform to join our team, grow with us, introduce us to new ideas and develop products that empower our users. We use the Adobe Marketing Cloud to run key elements of our customer facing products. 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, scalable and global products
- Follow software design best practices such as continuous integration, test-driven development, and regular deployments
- Analyze and remediate production issues and build instrumentation and operational readiness into the systems architecture
- 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
- Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to help shape product vision. Translate complex engineering challenges and solutions in easy to understand plain English.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.
- Five plus years of experience developing commercial quality web applications.
- Three or more years of experience developing customer facing web applications using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM).
- Solid experience with Java and the JVM ecosystem. Some areas that our Java engineers work in: Java 8, Maven, Tomcat, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambdas
- Exposure and/or experience with supporting technologies: Databases (SQL Server, AWS Aurora, MySQL, Postgress), Python, REST APIs, CDNs (CloudFront)
- Experience with Java, Linux, and Tomcat, as well as experience with full-stack web development.
- 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.
- Experience with Adobe Marketing Cloud (Adobe Analytics, Target, Dynamic Tag Management).
- Experience with Agile methodology and tools like JIRA.
- Be organized and able to remain productive even when you have multiple deliverables.
Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.
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