Software Engineer

Our Team
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 technologies, cloud-based infrastructure, and a refreshed product strategy. Our core offering is complemented by a variety of reporting, analytical, and artificial intelligence tools. 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 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 will partner with product owners and designers to understand our domain and create technical solutions that push us forward. You will be a co-owner of the product, responsible for its development and overall quality.
The position is based in our Chicago office. We follow a hybrid policy of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote work.
Job Responsibilities:

• Build well designed, well-engineered, stable, scalable features and solutions for Morningstar Direct
• 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.
• Mentoring and leading other members of the development team.
• Manage development projects through the whole project life cycle.
• Enforce good engineering practices like scalable and flexible architectures, modular software design, and good testing practices.
• Build and maintain a scalable, robust build and deployment system that allows us to quickly, frequently, and safely push changes to production.
• Apply DevOps practices in area of continuous and automated deployment.
• 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 constantly looking for opportunities for improvement, seizing them, and then sharing your findings with others.
• Be hyper-focused on the stability and quality of the product.

Qualifications:

• Friendly and enjoys working in a collaborative team with excellent spoken and written communication skills. Humble, honest, and to the point.
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience in building reactive Single-Page Web Applications.
• Experience with several of the following
• Javascript application frameworks like Nuxt and Vue
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation and Terraform
• CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Cloudbees, and Harness
• Building and deploying containerized applications
• Linux/Unix command line tools like Homebrew, AWS CLI, git, npm, yarn, etc.
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns.

Nice to have:

• Experience scaling web-based software applications and services.
• An understanding of how to protect web applications and services from common security vulnerabilities.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services technologies like CloudFront, S3, API gateway, ECS, Elastic Search, and ElastiCache
• Experience with other modern programming languages like C#, Java, Python, etc.
• Experience building and maintaining automated continuous deployment pipelines
• Experience building and maintaining automated testing tools

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

Total Cash Compensation Range
$87,000.00 - 147,900.00 USD Annual
Inclusive of annual base salary and target incentive
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.
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