Morningstar Wealth is seeking a Software Engineer with backend expertise to develop and modernize our model creation and data delivery systems. This role is central to advancing how Wealth builds, manages, and delivers data pipelines and services that power our products and client experiences.
Requirements
- Strong programming background in C-Sharp/.NET (preferred) or other backend languages.
- Experience building and consuming REST APIs; familiarity with event-driven systems is a plus.
- Exposure to AWS services (e.g., Lambda, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, RDS).
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD workflows and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.).
- Familiarity with databases (SQL/NoSQL) and data delivery systems(plus).
- Scripting with Python for automation or data workflows (plus).
- Frontend exposure with Vue.js or other modern JavaScript frameworks (plus).
Responsibilities
- Contribute to designing and building backend systems that support the creation, publication, and delivery of data and models to downstream applications.
- Help maintain, upgrade, and migrate existing applications and services to ensure stability, scalability, and efficiency.
- Implement improvements that enhance performance, resiliency, and delivery speed, while following best practices in scalability and maintainability.
- Work closely with product teams, data engineers, and DevOps/SRE partners to align technical solutions with business needs.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, and participate in code reviews to promote consistency and quality.
- Stay current on modern backend technologies and cloud practices and contribute ideas that improve team delivery and quality.
Other
- Ability to analyze technical challenges, design effective solutions, and deliver reliable results.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and modern software engineering practices.
- Understanding of secure service and API design.
- 3–5 years of professional software development experience, with emphasis on backend development and data-driven systems.
- Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week.
