About the Role
At Morningstar, helping investors is what brings us together and drives our work. We are looking for a senior software developer who's an expert with C# .NET , SQL to join our team and grow with us. Every day, as a technology-agnostic company, you will have the opportunity to work across various technologies and systems, contributing to the development of products that empower our users. You'll collaborate daily with team members across disciplines, working closely with our product managers to create technical solutions that drive us forward. We're looking for engineers who bring diverse knowledge and a passion for seizing opportunities to improve.
This position is based in our Toronto office, and we follow a hybrid policy of at least 3 days onsite allowing for 2 days remote work.
Job Responsibilities
- Build well designed, well-engineered, stable, scalable products across a variety of markets
- Good working experience in OO analysis & design using common design patterns
- 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
- Take ownership of 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.
- Be part of on-call rotation for support as needed
- Help to shape product vision.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related software development field with a minimum of 7 years of experience. A master's degree is preferred.
- Have a solid foundation in C#, .Net framework. Nice to have Python and/or Java Experience
- Experience with Amazon Web Services technologies like Lambdas, SQS, API-GateWay, S3, ECS
- Implementing application business logic using stored procedures, views, and functions
- Exposure and/or experience with supporting database technologies: (Databases: SQL Server, AWS Aurora, MySQL, Postgres)
- Experience with Agile methodology and tools like JIRA.
- 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
- Familiar with code unit testing and automated testing
- Knowledge of source control tools (Git, Code Commit,), build/release tools (Jenkins/ Harness, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline), and infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation)
- Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills, both oral and written, are required.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of financial data and process is a plus.
- Web Development experience
- Machine Learning Familiarity
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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.
