Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable, maintainable architecture that transforms structured financial data into editorial outputs such as full articles, charts, and tables.
• Build and maintain high-quality software that powers automated editorial workflows, including data-focused content creation and publishing integrations with internal Content Management Systems (CMS).
• Write clean, well-tested, and well-documented code following Morningstar engineering standards and best practices.
• Build and maintain event-driven architectures powered by Amazon Web Services such as AWS Lambda, EventBridge, and related services.
• Collaborate with data journalists and editors to understand requirements and deliver tools that are reliable, intuitive, and extensible.
• Improve and refactor existing systems to enhance performance, reliability, and adaptability as data sources and business needs evolve.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to proactively detect, diagnose, and prevent production issues.
• Ensure data quality and correctness through validation, error handling, and unit testing.
• Participate in code reviews, technical design discussions, and architecture decisions.
• Contribute to planning and estimation for projects supporting editorial automation and markets coverage.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field
• 3+ years of professional experience developing production-grade applications
• Strong programming skills in Python, R, or SQL for data analysis and transformation
• Familiarity with version control (Git) and collaborative development workflows (pull requests, code reviews)
• Experience with software engineering best practices, including test-driven development, automated unit testing and functional testing, and DevOps practices such as continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• Ability to implement workflows that track data/API usage and automation executions
• Develop reporting and dashboards to assess the reliability, performance, and operational health of automation tools
• Experience with AWS compute technologies (Lambda, ECS/ECR, EC2, API Gateway, IAM, S3) is a plus
• Knowledge and practical experience with domain modeling and object-oriented design patterns and principles, such as the SOLID principles
• Experience supporting data-heavy products or internal tools
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple deliverables in a collaborative team environment
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Datawrapper, preferred

Qualifications

• Preferred knowledge and practical experience with financial markets and reporting standards, with the ability to interpret complex data sets
• Experience working within an agile environment, preferred

Skills

• Software engineering
• Scalable system design
• Code quality
• Operational efficiency
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Domain modeling
• Object-oriented design patterns
• Data analysis and transformation
• Version control (Git)
• Collaborative development workflows (pull requests, code reviews)
• Test-driven development
• Continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD)
• Monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Data visualization tools

Benefits

• Financial Health - 100% 401k match up to 6% of salary
• Stock Ownership Potential
• Company provided life insurance - 1x salary + commission
• Comprehensive health benefits (medical/dental/vision) including potential premium discounts and company-provided HSA contributions (up to $500-$2,000 annually for specific plans and coverages)
• Additional medical Wellness Incentives - up to $300-$600 annually
• Company-provided long- and short-term disability insurance
• Emotional Health - Trust-Based Time Off, 6-week Paid Sabbatical Program, 6-Week Paid Family Caregiving Leave, Competitive 8-24 Week Paid Parental Leave, Adoption Assistance
• Ledership Coaching & Formal Mentorship Opportunities
• Annual Flex Stipend - $1000 annually to cover personal education & well-being expenses
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Dollars for Doers volunteer program
• Paid volunteering days
• 15+ Employee Resource & Affinity Groups

Pay

Total Cash Compensation Range: $89,625.00-131,441.66 Inclusive of annual base salary and target incentive

Schedule

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.