Lead Software Engineer @ Morningstar

Job Overview

As the Lead Software Development Engineer for the Direct Advisory Suite (Planning) at Morningstar, you serve as the technical voice and guiding force for a stream-aligned development team responsible for delivering a suite of client-facing applications. These applications are built using modern frameworks, tools, programming languages, and cloud technologies driven by a passionate and skilled team. This role oversees the end-to-end software development lifecycle from design and implementation to maintenance while ensuring scalability, minimizing technical debt, and aligning with strategic business goals.

Team Overview

In this position, you ll work closely with stakeholders, scrum masters, designers, and developers to create robust technology solutions for Morningstar s Financial Planning platform. You are expected to have strong hands-on experience with JavaScript frameworks (such as Vue.js), as well as .NET, Java, and SQL. Familiarity with component-based architectures and the ability to build scalable, adaptable systems are essential. Your responsibilities will include developing new components, maintaining and enhancing existing systems, and navigating enterprise-level complexities to deliver modern, efficient software solutions. Gaining a deep understanding of current systems and the databases will be important.

As a member of the Engineering team, you will be part of a team of big thinkers, innovators, and problem solvers who strive to deepen the positive impact. We value curiosity and the drive to find better ways of doing things. We thrive on customer empathy, which remains our focus when creating excellent customer experiences through product innovation.

We know that greatness is achieved through collaboration and diverse points of view, so we work closely with partners around the globe. As a team, we assume positive intent in each other s words and actions, value constructive discussions, and foster a respectful working environment built on integrity, growth and business value. We invest heavily in our people, who are eager to learn and constantly improve can Join and grow with us! Responsibilities:
Lead the development team. Guide and drive the team comprised of backend and front end developers
Think ahead of team, highlight problems and risk and come up with solutions
Be responsible for product commitment, functioning and deliveries
Design develop web and enterprise solutions to be flexible, scalable extensible.
Improve complex data flow, data structures and db design to move to next platform.
Be a Role Model to the team to collaborate on good object oriented designs domain modeling. Enforce good agile practices like test driven development, Continuous Integration.
Hands-on development will be an integral part of the responsibilities.
Develop areas of continuous and automated deployment.
Introduce and follow good development practices, innovative frameworks and technology solutions that help business move faster.
Follow best practices like estimation, planning, reporting and improvement brought to processes in every day work. Requirements: These are the most important skills, qualities, etc. that we d like for this role.
7-10 years of expertized experience in JavaScript framework/libraries - Vue.js, OOJS, HTML, CSS, JQuery, AJAX, Cross Browser Compatibility, Responsive Designs, Single Page Application (SPA)
At least 4 years experience of leading a team of backend and frontend developers.
Very Strong knowledge of databases and hands-on experience in any of the following databases - MS SQL, Dynamo DB, PostgreSQL, .
Expert in building RESTful WS.
Experience on Java and .Net technologies with exposure to the following frameworks - MVC etc.
Expert in building using Jenkins, Maven, SonarQube, code quality analysis
Experience with application scaffolding tools, automation development tools, and dependency management (e.g. NPM, Grunt)
Expert in Software Security, static code analysis, and preventing vulnerabilities
Expert in analysis, design, coding, and implementation of large-scale, n-tier Java and .NET-based platforms.
Expert in OOPs, Design Patterns, Development standards, and best practices
Knowledge of Cloud Computing AWS
Be aware of activity in the open source world. Contributing back to open source is a big plus.
Participation in full life-cycle system development with teams of developers, analysts, and testers.
Experience with modern development practices through AI in areas of Product design, Requirement Analysis, Test Driven Development, Automation Unit Testing in a product development environment.
Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills. Leadership qualities.