Software Engineer Mid Level C++ (Fix term 1 year)

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Job Description

Morningstar is seeking a Mid-Level Software Engineer for a one-year fixed-term contract in London. This role is crucial for building and maintaining high-volume, low-latency exchange connectivity software, processing billions of messages daily. The successful candidate will join an agile, multi-functional team of developers and QAs, focusing on efficient coding, continuous improvement, and contributing to key data feed development, library maintenance, and underlying transport protocols. The position requires C/C++ development experience on Windows platforms and familiarity with the full software development lifecycle, supporting Morningstar's critical market data infrastructure.
Good To Have:
  • Knowledge of TCP/IP and multicast communication protocols.
  • Familiarity with automated testing and CI/CD deployment techniques.
Must Have:
  • Build and maintain exchange connectivity software within an agile team.
  • Rigorously write efficient code and encourage continuous improvement.
  • Minimum 2 years experience in C/C++ development.
  • Experience developing on Windows platforms.
  • Proficiency in the full software development lifecycle.
Perks:
  • Hybrid work environment
  • Opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week
  • Tools and resources to engage meaningfully with global colleagues

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About Morningstar:Morningstar is a leading global provider of independent investment insights, serving both individual and institutional investors across public and private markets. Our offerings include a wide range of data, research, and investment management services, with $300+ billion in assets under management. Operating in 32 countries, Morningstar supports financial advisors, asset managers, retirement plan providers, and more with comprehensive investment solutions.

The Role:We are looking for an amazing Developer to help us build and maintain our exchange connectivity software.This is a fix term contract for a year with a potential extension.

Market Data powers all of Morningstar, as well as our clients so having the best of technology to do this is critical to the company’s success. We receive billions of messages every day from our direct financial exchange connections, which we process into a form useable by our customers. At present, we process over 40 billion messages per day and with data volumes significantly increasing year-on-year, you can imagine how this needs a high level of engineering skill to keep it under control.

You will need to work in an agile, multi-functional team of developers and testers to build and maintain our exchange connectivity components. You’ll need to be happy working in short cycles, with frequent deliveries while improving the overall quality of the development process.

Job Responsibilities

  • Work within a team of approx. 4 developers and 2 QA, focused on building and maintaining our exchange connectivity software. You will need to be rigorous in writing efficient code and encourage continuous improvement of how we build, test and deploy our system.
  • You'll be working with a mix of experience levels so will have the opportunity to both learn and mentor depending on where you are in your career.
  • There will be some out-of-hours 3rd line support, but we try to keep this to a minimum as we have a dedicated operations team who handle most issues.

Some key examples of the sort of work the team does:

  • Data feed development for high volume low latency exchange connections
  • Development and maintenance of key libraries used by the entire team
  • Development of key underlying transport protocols for transmission of data
  • Working with DevOps to improve automation in the development cycle

Qualifications

  • A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a software development or similar essential.
  • Experienced in C/C++ development (Typically a minimum of 2 years) Experience of development on Windows platforms
  • Experience of the full software development lifecycle

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of current communication protocols (specifically TCP/IP and multicast)
  • Knowledge of automated testing and deployment techniques used in a CI/CD environment

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.

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