Associate Software Engineer

The Role

At Morningstar, helping investors is what brings us together and drives our work. We are looking for Associate Software Engineers who are pro’s with .NET and AWS to join our team, grow with us, introduce us to new ideas and develop products that empower our users. Morningstar is a technology agnostic company, and as a Associate Software Engineer you may be working across .NET, .NET Core, AWS, SQL Server, LINQ, Web API, Postgress and integrating with various systems and standing up new 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. This position is based in our Mumbai office.

Responsibilities

• Build well-designed, well-engineered, stable, scalable products across a variety of markets 
• Follow software design best practices such as continuous integration, test-driven development, and regular deployments.
• 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.
• Familiarity or desire to become an AWS certified developer
• Take ownership of the success of the team with a "get things done" attitude; the ability to understand and leverage new technologies, potentially wearing many hats including business analyst, DBA, QA, and project manager.
• Analyze and remediate production issues and build instrumentation and operational readiness into the systems architecture.
• Enforce good Agile practices (using JIRA) including test-driven development and continuous integration.
• Help to shape product vision
• Stay up to date on emerging technologies.
• Promote usability and coding best practices.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, with 1 to 2 years of software development experience.
• 1+ years of experience developing commercial quality web applications and/or scalable APIs.
• Experience with designing and building full-stack web applications.
• Solid experience with C# , the Microsoft .Net stack and AWS stack. Should have experience with the following technologies: Web APIs, MVC, Unity, Entity Framework, LINQ, Asynchronous programming, SQL Server, .NET 8, AWS stack (Lambda, Fargate, SQS, Postgress).
• Advanced knowledge in XML programming
• Must be able to write good unit tests
• An understanding of how to protect web applications from common security vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, domain modeling, design patterns, and building highly scalable and available systems.
• Be organized and able to remain productive even when you have multiple deliverables.
• Experience working in Scrum-based methodologies a plus.
• Highly motivated individual with the potential and desire to learn new technologies and take on an increasing level of responsibility within the technology team.
• Ability to work independently, communicates effectively, and produces superior results.

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.

If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office 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.