Senior Software Engineer (Java, Python, AWS, Data Eng, Problem Solver)

About the role:
At Morningstar, helping investors is what brings us together and drives our work. The fixed income services team is looking for a smart and energetic Senior Software Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment. In this role, you will collaborate with internal/external customers, senior managers, product owners, project managers, Business Analysts, QA and other developers to design, develop and support technology solutions using technologies including Java 8 and above, Python, AWS services and data lake. You will build and support existing systems, study their architecture and complexities. Design, develop and implement new systems with modern software development practices. You should have a strong understanding of object-oriented principles and design patterns, familiarity with multiple programming languages, and exposure to a variety of architectures and AWS. You will grow with us, introduce us to new ideas and develop products that empower our users. You will have product ownership and responsibility for ensuring process and quality adherence through peer reviews, code reviews, test coverage and best practices. You will act as the software guardian, owning non-functional requirements, architectural direction, and the quality of the code while addressing technical debt. Every day, you will work with team members across disciplines. You will interact daily with our product managers to understand our domain and create technical solutions that push us forward. We want to work with engineers who bring knowledge and excitement about our opportunities. This position is based in our Chicago office.
Job responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain the software code base. Hands-on development will be an integral part of the responsibilities.
• Design and implement software solutions that meet product requirements and quality needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, timeline and adherence to team goals and principles.
• Be a role model to the team to collaborate on good object-oriented designs & domain modeling, promote usability and coding best practices, reinforce good development practices like test driven development and continuous integration.
• Develop areas of continuous and automated deployment.
• Introduce and follow good development practices, innovative frameworks and technology solutions that help business move faster.
• Follow best practices like estimation, planning, reporting, and improvement brought to processes in everyday work.
• Providing support for applications in production in terms of deployment, trouble shooting, monitoring and incident management.
• 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.
• Stay up to date on emerging technologies.

Qualifications:

• A bachelor's in Computer Science or related.
• At least 5 years of object-oriented experience (Java required, Python optional) in a commercial application or commercial service environment.
• Experience in OLAP, OLTP and Data Warehouse solutions.
• Experience in implementing AWS cloud first architecture like Lambdas, ECS, EC2, Fargate, S3, RDS DB, API gateway, Serverless, Redis Cache, SQS, ASG/LB/TG, CloudWatch and Code Pipeline.
• Experience in messaging technologies (Kafka, Kinesis).
• Familiarity with secure coding practices.
• Experience with functional programming concepts.
• Experience with Agile methodology and tools like JIRA.
• Be organized and able to remain productive even when you have multiple deliveries.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with the financial services domain (accounts, portfolios, holdings, returns, performance streams, traded instruments, etc.)

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis, at least 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.