Software Engineer

As a member of the Product and Engineering team at PitchBook, you will be part of a team of big thinkers, innovators and problem solvers who strive to deepen the positive impact we have on our customers and our company every day. We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things. We thrive on customer empathy, which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation.                                                                                                        

We know that greatness is achieved through collaboration and diverse points of view, so we work closely with partners around the globe. As a team, we assume positive intent in each other’s words and actions, value constructive discussions, and foster a respectful working environment built on integrity, growth and business value. We invest heavily in our people, who are eager to learn and constantly improve. Join our team and grow with us!

In this role, you will collaborate with team leader, scrum Master, data analysts, and developers to build technology solutions for Equity applications. You should have strong understanding of ReactJS, Core Java, JSP, Spring, SQL, Component based architectures and create scalable, flexible technical solutions. You would support existing systems, study their enterprise complexities and develop/implement better systems with modern software development practices. Developing good understanding of existing systems on other platforms and its database is a beginning step. 

Outline of Duties and Responsibilities 

• Design & develop web and enterprise solutions to be flexible, scalable & extensible. 

• Improve complex data flow, data structures and DB design to move to next platform. 

• Enforce good agile practices like test driven development, Continuous Integration. 

• Hands-on development will be an integral part of the responsibilities.  

• 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. 

Experience, Skills and Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a similar field.  

• 3 - 5 Years of experience.  

• 1-2 Years of experience on ReactJS or equivalent UI framework.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript (ES6+), HTML5, and CSS3, NodeJS.

• Experience with AI-augmented development tools like GitHub Copilot and a passion for leveraging AI in software engineering. 

• Hands-on in Java/ Web-services / Spring /Spring Boot. 

• Very Strong knowledge of databases and hands on MS SQL/MySQL/PostgreSQL and NoSQL DB DynamoDB/MongoDB. 

• Experienced with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP). 

• Be aware of activity in the open-source world. Contributing back to open source is a big plus. 

• Participation in full life-cycle system development with teams of developers, analysts, and testers. 

• Experience with modern development practices in areas of Product design, Requirement Analysis, Test Driven Development, Automation & Unit Testing, in a product development environment. 

• Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills.  

• Strong problem-solving ability. 

• Familiarity with architecture trade-off analysis methods and domain-driven design preferred. 

Working Conditions         

The job conditions for this position are in a standard office setting.  Employees in this position use PC and phone on an on-going basis throughout the day.  Limited corporate travel may be required to remote offices or other business meetings and events.  

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.