Senior Software Engineer

Morningstar, Inc.
United States, Illinois, Chicago
22 West Washington Street (Show on map)
Oct 19, 2025
Job Duties: Design and build stable, scalable products through the use of Amazon webservices (50% of time). Support and improve critical products and legacy systems (5%). Analyze and remediate production issues and vulnerabilities quickly, build instrumentation and operational readiness into the systems architecture (5%). Utilize technical development skills to distill analyst requirements into the technical specifications to create solid software products and be accountable for deliverables. Act as the software guardian (10%). Own non-functional requirements, architectural direction, quality of the code, and address technical debt (10%). Design for the big picture, including product roadmap over next quarter and years (5%). Lead end-to-end design (5%). Use an Agile approach to iteratively maintain and develop new functionality. Promote usability best practices. Develop areas of continuous and automated deployment (10%). Job Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field. 5 years of relevant programming experience. 5 years of experience building and maintaining professional software. 5 years of experience with Object Oriented languages like C#, Java or C++. 5 years of experience working in an Agile environment. Experience with Algorithms, Data Structures, Object Oriented Design, and Databases. Experience developing highly scalable and extensible RESTful APIs, console applications and public facing UI applications. Experience with back-end XML, relational, and file-based databases (e.g. SQL, Postgres, MySQL). Experience with software engineering best practices for the full software development life cycle, such as coding standards, code reviews, unit-tests, source control management (stash/git), build processes, testing, and operations. Professional experience developing high-performance, highly available, and scalable distributed computing applications. Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.