The Role
At Morningstar, helping investors is what brings us together and drives our work. We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer with proven technical leadership experience in .NET to join our team, grow with us, introduce us to new ideas and develop products that empower our users. Morningstar is a technology agnostic company, and as an engineer focused on .NET you may be working across .NET, .NET Core, AWS, SQL Server, LINQ, Web API and integrating with various systems and standing up new products. 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 Mumbai office.
Responsibilities
Lead a full stack software engineering team reporting to the Technology manager
Build well designed, well - engineered, stable, scalable products across a variety of markets
Architect and develop highly scalable REST API s and web applications
Enforce good Agile practices (using JIRA) including test - driven development and continuous integration.
DevOps practices in area of continuous and automated deployment.
Analyze and remediate production issues and build instrumentation and operational readiness into the systems architecture.
Ensure end to end delivery for the team
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.
Help to shape product vision
Work with front end engineers to help them consume APIs.
Stay up to date on emerging technologies.
Promote usability and coding best practices.
Perform code reviews, lead technical discussions
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other team members.
Requirements
Experience in B2B/B2C website challenges and familiar with web performance best practices: caching, front end optimization, load management, geographical distribution, traffic management, building for scale, runtime dependency management, messaging and resiliency
A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, with 8 to 12 years of software development experience.
6+ years of experience developing commercial quality web applications and/or scalable APIs.
2+ years of experience leading teams and/or projects.
Demonstrated technical leadership capabilities and the ability to coach and mentor other engineers.
Solid experience with C# and the Microsoft .Net stack. Should have experience with the following technologies: Web APIs, MVC, Unity, Entity Framework, LINQ, Asynchronous programming, developing with SOLID principles and SQL Server.
Familiarity with design patterns required.
Experience with designing and building full - stack web applications.
Advanced knowledge in XML programming
Should have knowledge of Test - Driven Development and Domain Driven Development
Must have good hands - on in Automated Unit Testing
Experience with functional programming concepts
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.
Knowledge of retirement management industry will be a plus.
Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.
Keyskills: Software design LINQ Coding XML Agile Scrum MVC Unit testing microsoft SQL