Associate Software Engineer

Morningstar is hiring for the role of Associate Software Engineer! Responsibilities of the Candidate: • Build well-designed, well-engineered, stable, scalable products across a variety of markets • 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 "get things done" attitude; the ability to understand and leverage new technologies, potentially wearing many hats including business analyst, DBA, QA, and project manager. • Analyze and remediate production issues and build instrumentation and operational readiness into the systems architecture. • Enforce good Agile practices (using JIRA) including test-driven development and continuous integration. • Help to shape product vision • Stay up to date on emerging technologies. • Promote usability and coding best practices. Requirements: • A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, with 1 to 2 years of software development experience. • 1+ years of experience developing commercial quality web applications and/or scalable APIs. • Experience with designing and building full-stack web applications. • Solid experience with C# , the Microsoft .Net stack and AWS stack. Should have experience with the following technologies: Web APIs, MVC, Unity, Entity Framework, LINQ, Asynchronous programming, SQL Server, .NET 8, AWS stack (Lambda, Fargate, SQS, Postgress). • Advanced knowledge in XML programming • Must be able to write good unit tests • An understanding of how to protect web applications from common security vulnerabilities. • Knowledge of object-oriented design, domain modeling, design patterns, and building highly scalable and available systems. • Be organized and able to remain productive even when you have multiple deliverables. • Experience working in Scrum-based methodologies a plus. • Highly motivated individual with the potential and desire to learn new technologies and take on an increasing level of responsibility within the technology team. • Ability to work independently, communicates effectively, and produces superior results.