Software Engineer

About the Role 

At Morningstar, helping investors is what brings us together and drives our work. We are looking for a software developer who’s an expert with C# .NET and SQL to join our team and grow with us. 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 Toronto office. 

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 

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field. 
• Three plus years of experience developing commercial quality applications. 

• Have a solid foundation in C# 
• 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 of APIs 

• Knowledge of source control tools (Git, Code Commit, SVN, TFS), build/release tools (Jenkins, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline), and infrastructure as code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation) 

• Strong organizational, analytical, and communication skills, both oral and written, are required. 

Nice to Haves 

• Python and/or Java Experience 
• Web Development experience 
• Machine Learning Familiarity 

 Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.