The Role The Direct Advisory Suite team looking for a Sr. Software Engineer to join the team. In this role, you will collaborate with customers, product owner, project managers, and developers to design, develop and support software using Agile development and .NET principles and practices. You will have product ownership and responsibility for ensuring process and quality adherence through code reviews, unit test and best practices. You will act as the software guardian, owning non-functional requirements, architectural direction, and the quality of the code while addressing technical debt. 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 Toronto office and we follow a hybrid onsite policy. Responsibilities: Build well designed, well-engineered, stable, scalable products across a variety of markets Enforce good Agile practices (using JIRA) including test-driven development and continuous integration. Solve investors’ problems with technology, understanding market chaos at work and crafting technically appropriate interactive experiences to communicate effectively with individual investors. 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. Analyze and remediate production issues and build instrumentation and operational readiness into the systems architecture. Work with front end engineers to help them consume APIs (full Stack preferred) Mentoring junior members of team. Stay up to date on emerging technologies. Promote usability and coding best practices. Requirements: A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field 7+ years of software development experience. Be passionate about quality, process, programming, and investing in general, seeing opportunities for improvement, seizing them, and then sharing your findings with others. 5+ years of hands-on experience developing commercial quality web applications and/or scalable APIs. Experience with designing and building web applications and REST APIs. Solid experience with C# and the Microsoft .Net Framework/.Net Core. Should have experience with the following technologies: Web APIs, MVC, Entity Framework, LINQ, Asynchronous programming, and SQL Server. Experience on Front end development using Vue.js 3.0. Experience on Cloud with AWS, Lambda, S3, ECS, EC2, DynamoDB, Postgres, Redis etc 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. Strong interest in AI, with examples of hands-on projects. Be organized and able to remain productive even when you have multiple deliverables. Experience working in Scrum-based methodologies a plus. Have a solid understanding in CI&CD deployment. Experience with DevOps engineering concepts such as Docker, Harness etc. is 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. Morningstar’s hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We’ve found that we’re at our best when we’re purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. 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