Software Engineer

Position : Software Engineer (SE Back End - .Net)

About Us : Morningstar Inc. (USA) is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. we offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and institutional investors in the debt and private capital markets.

With more than 5,200 employees and operations in 27 countries, we provide data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data.

Morningstar India office has been certified as “Great Place to Work!” consecutively for the 4th year in 2020 and is in the “Top 25 Great Workplaces” in the India Banking and Financial Sector category of “Great Place to Work!”.

The Team : Retirement & Workplace Solutions is Morningstar’s one of the key product areas and it provides the USA retirement market with following 5 core solutions which collectively has approximate $159 billion in assets under advisement and management as of Dec 31, 2019.

• Managed Accounts
• Fiduciary Services
• Target-Date Solutions
• Morningstar Plan Advantage
• Advisor Managed Accounts
  
  
  

Retirement & Workplace Solutions is a team of more than 200 software professionals, investment analysts, operations executives etc. working from US (Chicago) and India (Mumbai) offices.

For more information, please do visit https://www.morningstar.com/company/workplace

The Role : At Morningstar, helping investors is what brings us together and drives our work. We are looking for software engineers who are proficient with .NET 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 an engineer focused on .NET you may be working across .NET, .NET Core, AWS, SQL Server, LINQ, Web API 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
• Be responsible for the success of the team with a "gets things done" attitude; the ability to understand and leverage new technologies, potentially wearing many hats including business analyst, DBA, QA, and project manager.
• Help to shape product vision.
• Work with front end engineers to help them consume APIs.
• Stay up to date on emerging technologies.
• Follow usability and coding best practices.
  
  
  

Requirements :

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, with 3-5 years of software development experience.
• 3+ years of experience developing commercial quality web applications and/or scalable APIs.
• Solid experience with C# and the Microsoft .Net stack. Experience with Web APIs, MVC, Unity, Entity Framework, LINQ, Asynchronous programming and SQL Server.
• Knowledge in XML programming
• Ability to write good unit tests
• An understanding of how to protect web applications from common security vulnerabilities.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, domain modeling, and building highly scalable and available systems.
• Be organized and able to remain productive even when you have multiple deliverables.
• 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.
• Experience working in Scrum-based methodologies
  
  
  

Good to Have :

• AWS exposure
• .NET Core
• Understanding of JavaScript frameworks (Angular, VueJS)
  
  
  

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 work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. While some positions are available as fully remote, we’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, typically 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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