Senior Software Engineer

undefined ago • 5 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $148,949 PA - $148,949 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

Morningstar is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in Chicago to tackle complex development tasks and implement intricate solutions for Wealth group applications. This role involves collaborating with teams, mentoring junior developers, and introducing innovative frameworks using technologies like AWS, Spring-boot, and Docker. The engineer will follow Agile practices, support critical products, remediate production issues, and lead design discussions, ensuring high-quality software delivery and promoting best practices. A Bachelor's degree and 5 years of relevant programming experience are required.
Must have:
  • Tackle complex development tasks and implement intricate solutions.
  • Collaborate on technology solutions for Wealth group applications.
  • Mentor and support junior developers, fostering their growth.
  • Introduce good development practices and innovative frameworks.
  • Make recommendations for process improvements like CI/CD and automated testing.
  • Mentor engineers in code reviews for technical and domain standards.
  • Act as a role model for object-oriented designs and domain modeling.
  • Follow Agile practices for high-quality software delivery.
  • Support and improve critical products and legacy systems.
  • Analyze and remediate production issues and vulnerabilities quickly.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams for timely delivery.
  • Serve as software guardian, leading architectural and technical direction.
  • Lead design discussions, offering valuable input and ideas.
  • Remain current on emerging technologies.
  • Promote usability best practices.
Perks:
  • 75% 401k match up to 7%
  • Stock Ownership Potential
  • Company provided life insurance - 1x salary + commission
  • Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision)
  • Potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually)
  • Additional medical Wellness Incentives - up to $300-$600 annual
  • Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance
  • 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
  • Charitable Matching Gifts program
  • Dollars for Doers volunteer program
  • Paid volunteering days
  • 15+ Employee Resource & Affinity Groups
  • Hybrid work environment

Job Details

Responsibilities:

Tackle complex development tasks. Utilize extensive expertise to design and implement intricate solutions that meet product requirements and quality needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, schedules and adherence to Wealth group goals and principles (20%). Collaborate with team members to implement technology solutions for Wealth group applications using a variety of technologies including AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, RDB), Spring-boot microservices and Docker (10%). Mentor and support junior developers, foster their growth by providing guidance, sharing knowledge, and nurturing their technical skills (10%). Introduce and follow good development practices, innovative frameworks, and technology solutions that help business move faster. Make recommendations for process improvements such as CI/CD and automated testing approaches (10%). Mentor other engineers in code reviews to follow best practices for technical and domain standards (5%). Act as a role model to the team, collaborating on good object-oriented designs & domain modeling (5%). Follow best Agile practices like sprint planning, retrospective, estimation, reporting, and ensure seamless collaboration within the team to deliver high quality software within iterative cycles (5%). Support and improve critical products and legacy systems (5%). Analyze and remediate production issues and vulnerabilities quickly, build instrumentation, and operational readiness into the systems architecture (5%). Work closely with cross functional teams, QA teams and other development teams globally to ensure a timely and high-quality delivery and develop areas of continuous and automated deployment (5%). Serve as the software guardian. Take leadership responsibility for non-functional requirements, architectural and technical direction (5%). Lead design discussions, offer valuable input, share ideas, and collaborate with team members to shape effective and innovative design solutions in both traditional and cloud-based architectures (5%). Remain current on emerging technologies (5%). Promote usability best practices (5%). **Remote work requests will be considered consistent with company’s remote work policy.

Requirements:

This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related Engineering fields, or foreign equivalent and 5 years of relevant programming experience in Software Engineer or related position. This position also requires: 4 years of experience in building and maintaining professional software; 4 years of experience in web development using Javascript and single page application frameworks (React, Vuejs, EmberJS); 4 years of experience in web development and building applications in JavaScript; 4 years of experience in developing REST API Web Services using NodeJs and ExpressJS; 4 years of experience with databases, including MySQL, Oracle SQL Server; 4 years of experience with Qunit, Jest, and Mocha Testing framework and Mocking Frameworks; 4 years of experience with Continuous Integration Tools Bitbucket, GitHub, Jenkins, IntelliJ, unit testing, and Jira; 4 years of experience working in an Agile environment including test driven development and CICD; 4 years of experience working with Amazon Web Services, including S3, CloudFront, ELB, SQS, EC2, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB; 2 years of experience with mentoring associate engineers in code quality; experience with Microservices or serverless applications; experience with supporting existing frameworks and internal tools, and environments; experience with infrastructure as code; experience with writing clean code and provide insights in code reviews; experience with software concepts, including: Design Patterns, HTTP(S), RESTful API, SSO, security, unit testing, modern browser features, and SQL scripts. **Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, and experience.

Must possess unrestricted right to work in the U.S. in this position

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