Senior Software Engineer

Location: Frankfurt

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Participate in Agile ceremonies, design sessions, and help develop and maintain the software code base of Indexes in both traditional and cloud-based architectures

• Help implement software solutions that meet product requirements and quality needs with respect to functionality, performance, scalability, reliability, schedules and adherence to Indexes goals and principles.

• Be a role model to the team to collaborate on good object-oriented designs & domain modeling. Reinforce good development practices like test driven development, and continuous integration.

• Bring new ideas to the team and promote innovation

Requirements:

• Completed Bachelor’s degree in Engineering

• Minimum of 5 years of experience developing software solutions, preferably in a Unix environment.

• Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills

• Strong knowledge of Java

• Experience with Spring and Spring-Boot

• Experience implementing RESTful APIs and microservices

• Hands on experience with SQL and/or NoSQL databases (preferably MS SQL/DynamoDB/Athena).

• Experience with modern development practices in areas of product design, requirement analysis, test driven development, and test automation

• Well versed with Linux operating system and commands needed for code development.

• Experience in analysis, design, coding and implementation of distributed systems

• Be aware of activity in the open source world. Contributing back to open source is a big plus.

• Previous experience with AI.

Good to Have:

• Knowledge/Certification of AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Athena, Glue)

• Knowledge of JVM tuning and profiling

• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, or other containerization platforms

• Knowledge of messaging/streaming technologies (Kafka, JMS, Spark, etc.)

• Knowledge of web UI frameworks like Angular/React/Vue.js

• Knowledge of Python, C#, Node.js

• Exposure to Capital Market domain (Indexes, Equities, etc.)

Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to collaborate in-person each week as we've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis. In most of our locations, our hybrid work model is four days in-office 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.