Morningstar Inc.
Senior Software Engineer
New York · Senior
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About the role
- Experience working in agile teams, mentoring junior engineers, and contributing to cross-functional collaboration to meet project goals. *Will accept any suitable combination of education, training, and experience.
- In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office each week.
Requirements
- This position requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or foreign equivalent and 4 years of experience in Full Stack Engineer, Associate Software Engineer, or related position.
- This position also requires 4 years of experience managing version control systems (Git) effectively in collaborative environments.
- 4 years of experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Harness, and Cloudbees to ensure smooth deployments.
- 4 years of experience monitoring application performance and reliability with tools like New Relic and Splunk.
- 4 years of experience working in AWS-based environments, building, and deploying serverless applications and microservices using AWS services such as Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, EC2, and CloudFormation.
- 3 years of experience developing, delivering, and maintaining professional-grade software with an emphasis on scalability, security, and maintainability showcasing expertise in object-oriented programming.
- 3 years of experience building responsive and dynamic user interfaces using JavaScript frameworks like Vue.js (or React/Angular as applicable).
- 3 years of experience developing RESTful APIs using Java and managing data through XML, relational (SQL, Postgres), and file-based databases.
- 3 years of experience with backend XML, relational, and file-based databases (SQL and Postgres).
- 3 years of experience adhering to software engineering best practices, including writing clean, maintainable, test-driven, secure, and scalable code following Sonar-approved coding standards.
Skills
- Write a suite of automated unit tests to individual units of the application to ensure code is up to Sonar standards (10%).
Compensation
- 100% 401k match up to 6% of salary
- 1x salary + commission
- Additional medical Wellness Incentives - up to $300-$600 annual
- Compensation and Benefits
- Annual Flex Stipend - $1000 annually to cover personal education & well-being expenses
Benefits
- Financial Health
- Stock Ownership Potential
- Company provided life insurance
- Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision) including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually) for specific plans and coverages
- Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance
- Emotional Health
- Trust-Based Time Off
- 6-Week Paid Family Caregiving Leave
- That's why we champion your wellness through a wide range of programs that support all stages of your personal and professional life.
- Competitive 8-24 Week Paid Parental Leave
- Tuition Reimbursement
Equal opportunity
- Morningstar Investment Management is an equal opportunity employer.
This listing is sourced directly from Morningstar Inc.'s careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.