Lead Software Engineer - Mumbai - Morningstar

The Role :

The team is looking for forward-thinking problem solvers who thrive in a fast-paced environment. In this role, you will collaborate with the team lead, Scrum Master, business analysts, QA, and other developers to build technology solutions for Morningstar s Indexes applications using a variety of technologies including AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB), Spring-boot microservices, Kafka, and Docker. You will support existing systems, study their enterprise complexities and develop/implement new systems with modern software development practices. You will need to develop a good understanding of the existing systems and the data model. You need to be passionate about technology, curious, and able to learn and experiment independently. You should have a strong understanding of object-oriented principles and design patterns, and familiarity with multiple programming languages, and exposure to different architectures.

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 7 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.

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
• Experience with Drools , JBMP will be useful
• Exposure to Capital Market domain (Indexes, Equities, etc.)