Senior Software Engineer

Position Title: Senior Software Engineer

The Group: Morningstar’s Research group provides independent analysis on individual securities, funds, markets, and portfolios. The Research group also provides data on hundreds of thousands of investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on millions of equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar is one of the largest independent sources of fund, equity, and credit data and research in the world, and our advocacy for investors’ interests is the foundation of our company. 
 

The Role:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will need to produce and implement functional software solutions. You will work with senior management to define software requirements and take the lead on operational and technical projects. In this role, you should be able to work with minimal supervision.  Your goal will be to develop high-quality software that is aligned with customer needs and business goals.

Responsibilities: 

• Review the performance of the application used in the Company and upgrade it as and when required. Plan the implementation of a new requirements when needed
• Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code
• Individual contribution and coding
• Remain current on new technologies and available vendor packages, evaluate and make recommendations as necessary
• Assist in task planning, estimation, scheduling and staffing
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
• Grow engineering teams by interviewing, recruiting and hiring
• Stay on the leading edge of development practices
• Work in close partnership with cross-functional teams and management
• Follow best practices for estimation, planning, reporting and improvement brought to processes in every day work. 

Requirements: 

• 4-6 years of experience in Python and AWS 
• Should have experience with building REST based APIs using python and framework such as Flask, Django
• Should be able to write unit test and integration test cases using pytest
• Should be aware of processing of files in different formats and capturing data using python
• Should be knowing python libraries to handle security of an application
• Should be knowing ORM like SQL Alchemy, database techniques using python libraries
• Experience with DevOps tools (e.g. Splunk, Git, uDeploy, Jenkins, Control-M) is desirable 
• Experience with Agile software engineering practices 
• Experience with back-end XML, relational, and file-based databases (e.g. SQL, Postgres, Redshift, Netezza, HDFS) 
• Experience developing and deploying solutions using services in the Amazon AWS ecosystem (Lambda, EC2, RDS, EMR)
• Good to have JAVA experience
   

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.

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.