Senior Front-End Software Engineer (Vue/React)

The Team:
Morningstar believes in empowering investors through research, data, design, and technology. Morningstar, being a leading global provider of independent investment research, is looking for an innovative and passionate individual to serve as a Senior Software engineer in Morningstar's Research Products business. Research Products delivers Morningstar's research content through a suite of product lines as well as through shared service platforms, providing research content and comprehensive research workflows. We surface Morningstar's content and insights to retail investors, financial advisors, investment selection and due diligence teams, and other financial professionals.

We aim to provide a first-class experience in accessing, analyzing, and reporting on Morningstar research and data. We are deeply inquisitive; we do not take “that’s just the way it’s always been done” or “that’s just best practice” as valid answers and instead seek to fine-tune our product development process for maximum impact. We are empowered professionals who are given problems to solve and not tickets to implement. We value team productivity over individual productivity and this culture of “giving” means we enjoy and highly value collaborating with our teammates.

The Role:
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is ready to jump into an expansive set of code bases across multiple stacks to join our team, grow with us, introduce us to new ideas and develop products that empower our users. As a member of the Research products development team, you will work closely with business product owners, as well as with remote development teams around the world. You will be exposed to all aspects of product development: design of user experience, system architecture, API/library development, leverage AWS services, code reviews, automated testing, infrastructure as code, systems monitoring & reliability, and support.

This is a hybrid role based in our Chicago office.

Job Responsibilities:

We are looking for experienced UI developers who have dealt with complexity and large code bases, and who have developed strategies for tackling them. Developers who understand how to ship code and can make the correct trade-offs between perfection and delivery. We value innovation and are looking for team members who introduce new ideas, technologies and practices. We work with a variety of technologies including Vue/Node.JS, Java, Amazon Web Services, Cloud computing, OpenSearch and more.

Qualifications:

• Friendly and enjoys working in a collaborative team with excellent spoken and written communication skills. Humble, honest, and to the point
   
• Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
   
• 5+ Years of experience in Software Development
   
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, design patterns and UI frameworks
   
• Experience in web-based software applications and services.
   
• Experience in HTML, CSS, Javascript and Angular / React or Vue JS
   
• Experience with professional software build, test and deploy practices
   
• Experience in Cloud services and good understanding cloud computing, preferred AWS (or Azure, GCP)
   
• Experience with agile principles including test driven development and CICD
   
• Creative thinker with ability to solve complex problems
   
• Strong proficiency in building and consuming RESTful API’s
   
• Knowledge of scalable architectures
   
• Knowledge of Web UI componentization
   
• Knowledge of any backend development in C++, Java, C#, Node.js, or Python and the ability plus willingness to adopt any languages
   
• Excellent self-study skills

Nice to have:

• Experience with Microservices or serverless applications
   
• Experience with automated infrastructure configurations and orchestration.
   
• Experience with CloudFormation, Docker, Serverless
   
• Experience with SQL and non-SQL databases
   
• Experience with Amazon Web Services technologies like Serverless/Lambdas, API gateway, ECS, KMS/IAM, CloudFront, EC2
   

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Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you’ll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.