Software Engineer

Job Description

About the Role

Title: Software Engineer

Location: Chicago United States

Full time

job requisition id: REQ-049363

Job Description:

The Area: The Morningstar Indexes Team leverages its expertise in equity research, manager research, asset allocation, and portfolio construction to create innovative investment solutions. It uses Morningstar’s intellectual property to create indexes that empower investors to achieve their goals at every stage of the investment process-market monitoring, benchmarking, and asset allocation. The fast-growing business offers a broad suite of global equity, bond, commodity and asset allocation indexes.

The Role: The team is looking for forward-thinking problem solvers who thrive in a fast-paced environment. In this role, you will collaborate with the team lead, Scrum Master, business analysts, QA, and other developers to build technology solutions for Morningstar Index’s applications using a variety of technologies including AWS (ECS, SQS, SNS, S3, RDS), Spring-boot microservices, Kafka, and Docker. You will support existing systems, study their complexities and develop/implement new systems with modern software development practices. You will need to develop a good understanding of the existing systems and the data model. You need to be passionate about technology, curious, and able to learn and experiment independently. You should have a strong understanding of object-oriented principles and design patterns, and familiarity with multiple programming languages.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, and maintain the software code base of Indexes in both traditional and cloud-based architectures. Hands-on, full-stack development will be an integral part of the responsibilities.

Help implement software solutions that meet product requirements and quality needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, schedules and adherence to Indexes goals and principles.

Collaborate with the team on good object-oriented designs & domain modeling. Follow good development practices like test driven development, and continuous integration.

Bring new ideas to the team and promote innovation

Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering

Minimum of 2 years of experience developing software solutions

Excellent listening, written, and verbal communication skills

Strong knowledge of Java or equivalent object-oriented language (such as C#)

Experience with Spring and Spring Boot

Experience with Python

Experience implementing RESTful APIs and microservices

Hands on experience with SQL databases (preferably PostgreSQL)

Experience with modern development practices in areas of product design, requirement analysis, test driven development, and test automation

Experience in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of distributed systems

Ability and willingness to learn new technologies

Good to Have:

Knowledge/Certification in AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, SNS, SQS, Athena)

Knowledge of JVM tuning and profiling

Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, or other containerization platforms

Knowledge of Terraform, Jenkins, Nexus, or other deployment/CI tools.

Knowledge of messaging/streaming technologies (Kafka, JMS, Spark, Flink, etc.)

Knowledge of modern web UI frameworks like Vue.js/React/Angular

Knowledge of Node.js, C#

Experience with Pandas, NumPy

Exposure to Capital Market domain (Indexes, Equities, etc.)

Be aware of activity in the open-source world. Contributing back to open source is a big plus.

Compensation and Benefits

At Morningstar we believe people are at their best when they are at their healthiest. That’s why we champion your wellness through a wide-range of programs that support all stages of your personal and professional life. Here are some examples of the offerings we provide:

Financial Health

75% 401k match up to 7%

Stock Ownership Potential

Company provided life insurance – 1x salary + commission

Physical Health

Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision) including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually) for specific plans and coverages

Additional medical Wellness Incentives – up to $300-$600 annual

Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance

Emotional Health

Trust-Based Time Off

6-week Paid Sabbatical Program

6-Week Paid Family Caregiving Leave

Competitive 8-24 Week Paid Parental Bonding Leave

Adoption Assistance

Leadership Coaching & Formal Mentorship Opportunities

Annual Education Stipend

Tuition Reimbursement

Social Health

Charitable Matching Gifts program

Dollars for Doers volunteer program

Paid volunteering days

15+ Employee Resource & Affinity Groups

Base Salary Compensation Range

$79,091.00 – 134,455.00 USD Annual

Total Cash Compensation Range

$87,000.00 – 147,900.00 USD Annual

Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, typically 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.