# Associate Software Engineer

Morningstar’s Analytics builds the data and quantitative models behind products that investors rely on. Our analysts and researchers are strong in Python, SQL and finance. We’re looking for an engineer who brings complementary strengths in cloud infrastructure, automation and production systems. You’ll work side by side with them to turn research into reliable, scalable, customer-facing analytics. You’ll start on our Risk Analytics suite, supporting and improving the production pipelines that compute risk metrics for our clients. You’ll join the team’s on-call rotation, which is the fastest way to learn how large-scale financial analytics run in production. Over time, you’ll take on more design and build work. Responsibilities: Build and maintain cloud infrastructure on AWS using infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform) Monitor, troubleshoot and improve production data pipelines, and take part in an on-call rotation Partner with analysts and researchers to productionize their models and calculations Develop CI/CD pipelines, automated tests and deployment tooling Improve observability, data quality checks and documentation across our systems Hands-on exposure to AWS (e.g., S3, Lamb

- **Id**: 4029304
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/morningstar-associate-software-engineer-3>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chicago, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T18:04:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T18:04:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4197
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Hybrid work, Life insurance, Paid volunteering days, Parental leave
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Financial Data & Market Intelligence, Financial News & Media

## Company

- **Id**: 12394
- **Name**: Morningstar
- **Domain**: morningstar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/morningstar>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 90
- **Open postings**: 17
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.412
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 31
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon ECS** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Lambda** — Optional: no
- **AWS Step Functions** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Presto** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Trino** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T18:04:14Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 29 · green card filings: 11; Filings 12m: 29

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T19:07:54Z

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