Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Vashi, Navi Mumbai
Company Overview:
Morningstar is a leading provider of independent investment research across North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Our diverse range of products and solutions serves individual and institutional investors, financial advisors, asset managers, retirement plan providers, and securities issuers. Morningstar India has been recognized as a Great Place to Work for eight consecutive years.
Team Overview:
The Morningstar Wealth Platform enables investors and advisers to collaborate seamlessly through digital experiences. By leveraging data and engagement, we create products and services that connect people to the financial information and tools they need. Our mission is to enhance investor education, engagement, and experience.
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join the International Wealth Platform team. In this role, you will support a world-class financial services platform, ensuring operational excellence and delivering innovative solutions for investors and financial advisors. As a member of the L1 Support Team, you will take ownership of defect resolution, overnight process monitoring, and ad-hoc requests to maintain platform health and performance.
This role offers flexible working hours, including remote overnight platform support. You will work closely with engineering, operations, and product teams to deliver a resilient, scalable platform ready for next-day trading. Your focus will include troubleshooting recurring issues, improving platform reliability, and optimizing customer experiences while contributing to the evolution of our technology stack.
Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and resolve defects through root cause analysis and troubleshooting.
• Monitor overnight processes to ensure system readiness for next-day trading.
• Collaborate with operational teams to address ad-hoc requests and enhance customer satisfaction.
• Develop and maintain low-latency, high-performance systems using SQL Server, VB.NET, and C# .NET.
• Perform platform health checks, diagnose reliability issues, and propose scalable solutions.
• Build automation tools and processes to improve efficiency and reduce recurring incidents.
• Ensure all development and change requests comply with architectural guidelines.
• Maintain and update service documentation.
• Take full ownership of defects from identification to production deployment.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Mentor team members and share knowledge to foster a culture of continuous learning and best practices.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of experience supporting large-scale platforms, emphasizing databases and performance optimization.
• Strong SQL Server development experience, including query performance tuning.
• Proficiency in .NET development, including VB.NET and C#, with strong debugging skills.
• Hands-on experience with Azure or other cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Splunk is highly desirable.
• Experience in automation and a proactive approach to resolving systemic issues.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum) and tools like Jira.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and understand stakeholder requirements.
• Fast learner with curiosity, passion for continuous improvement, and innovation.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.

Morningstar is an equal opportunity employer.
If you receive and accept an offer from us, we require that personal and any related investments be disclosed confidentiality to our Compliance team (days vary by region). These investments will be reviewed to ensure they meet Code of Ethics requirements. If any conflicts of interest are identified, then you will be required to liquidate those holdings immediately. In addition, dependent on your department and location of work certain employee accounts must be held with an approved broker (for example all, U.S. employee accounts). If this applies and your account(s) are not with an approved broker, you will be required to move your holdings to an approved broker.
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.
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