Lead a software engineering team, design and maintain software systems, mentor junior engineers, drive engineering decisions, and ensure high-quality deliverables.
Role: Software Engineering Team Lead
Location: Vashi, Navi Mumbai
Shift: UK Shift
Job Description
The Group: The Workplace business unit focuses on helping individuals achieve better outcomes by working with institutional clients in the global defined contribution and workplace markets. This is a high growth area for Morningstar and houses a diverse product suite and unique client base. By constantly evolving our solutions and solving our client's problems, we believe we are positioned well for continued future growth.
The Role: Morningstar seeks a We are looking for a Software Engineering Team Lead who is excited to remain deeply hands-on while taking on light people-leadership responsibilities. In this hybrid role, you will design and build critical systems, set engineering standards, mentor the team, and directly manage two software engineers to help them grow and deliver high-quality work.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced engineer who wants to influence technical direction while developing leadership skills in a supportive, collaborative environment. This position is located in our Mumbai office.
Technical
Leadership & Team Management
Qualifications Required
Preferred
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.
I10_MstarIndiaPvtLtd Morningstar India Private Ltd. (Delhi) Legal Entity
Location: Vashi, Navi Mumbai
Shift: UK Shift
Job Description
The Group: The Workplace business unit focuses on helping individuals achieve better outcomes by working with institutional clients in the global defined contribution and workplace markets. This is a high growth area for Morningstar and houses a diverse product suite and unique client base. By constantly evolving our solutions and solving our client's problems, we believe we are positioned well for continued future growth.
The Role: Morningstar seeks a We are looking for a Software Engineering Team Lead who is excited to remain deeply hands-on while taking on light people-leadership responsibilities. In this hybrid role, you will design and build critical systems, set engineering standards, mentor the team, and directly manage two software engineers to help them grow and deliver high-quality work.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced engineer who wants to influence technical direction while developing leadership skills in a supportive, collaborative environment. This position is located in our Mumbai office.
Technical
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, reliable software systems.
- Lead technical architecture discussions and drive key engineering decisions.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code.
- Review code and provide constructive feedback to ensure high standards.
- Collaborate with product, design, and other cross-functional partners to shape requirements and deliver high-impact features.
- Monitor system performance, diagnose issues, and propose improvements.
- Champion best practices around documentation, testing, CI/CD, and security.
Leadership & Team Management
- Manage and coachjunior software engineers, providing regular feedback and supporting their growth.
- Help set team goals and ensure alignment with broader engineering objectives.
- Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, and other team ceremonies as needed.
- Support hiring efforts by participating in interviews and shaping the team's hiring bar.
- Foster a positive, inclusive, and high-performing team culture.
Qualifications Required
- 8+ years of professional software engineering experience (or equivalent).
- Strong proficiency in Java 8+, Java Spring Boot
- Experience designing and owning production systems end to end.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor or lead other engineers.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
- Ability to balance hands-on technical work with team leadership responsibilities.
Preferred
- Prior experience as a team lead, tech lead, or manager of a small engineering group.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
- Familiarity with AWS and modern DevOps practices.
- Track record of driving engineering improvements or technical initiatives.
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.
I10_MstarIndiaPvtLtd Morningstar India Private Ltd. (Delhi) Legal Entity
Top Skills
AWS
Ci/Cd
Devops Practices
Java
Java Spring Boot
Morningstar Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, IND Office
14th Floor, Platinum Techno Park, Pranavanandji Marg, Sector 30, Vashi, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, 400703
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