The Team:
Fueling the technologies that drive our products and support our company’s infrastructure, the Technology team consists of talented developers, network architects, and IT experts who help make technology one of Morningstar’s core strengths. Though our technologists represent a range of skills and knowledge bases, they all view technology as a craft and care deeply about creating positive user experiences. From Agile methodologies to mobile applications, to software as a service (SaaS) delivered from our private cloud, we push technology’s boundaries to build scalable, elegant solutions that help investors reach their financial goals.
The Role:
In this role, you will participate in the development of software for Product Services. This team is chartered with providing common software components, applications, and services that span multiple product lines across Morningstar. An ideal candidate would be a self-starter who is passionate about technology, understands business goals, and creates scalable, flexible technical solutions. This role is fully responsible for delivery and ensuring modern software development practices are being applied with rigor. This individual must support a culture of high energy and technical excellence. Exposure and contribution to open-source solutions are a big plus. This position is based in our Chicago office.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop software applications.
- Create a strong culture of engineering excellence.
- Create software with good object-oriented designs, patterns, and domain modeling.
- Enforce Agile practices like test-driven development, continuous integration, and test automation.
- Collaborate with offshore teams on both architectural and delivery issues.
- Analyze and remediate production issues; build fault tolerance and operational readiness into the system architecture with a focus on operationally ready solutions.
- Be a software guardian; own non-functional requirements, architectural direction, quality of the code while addressing technical debt.