The role
From Morgan Stanley's own posting.
In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Senior Software Engineering position at the Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.
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We are seeking a hands-on Vice President level Software Engineer to join the Structured Credit & Financing Technology team in New York. The role will provide intraday desk-facing coverage for Credit Repo, Credit Exotics and related Genesis trading tools, while also delivering strategic stability and platform enhancements across Structured Credit & Financing workflows. The candidate will partner closely with traders, structurers, strats, operations, controllers, market risk and global technology teams to support daily business needs, resolve production issues, and build robust solutions across trade booking, risk/PnL, margin, settlement, reporting and workflow automation. The ideal candidate is a strong hands-on developer with excellent communication skills, strong ownership, and the ability to operate effectively in a global team supporting a fast-moving front-office business.
What you’ll do in the role:
Intraday desk coverage and production ownership
Provide intraday coverage for Structured Credit & Financing trading tools, with primary focus on Credit Repo, Credit Exotics Genesis-based workflows.
Act as a senior technology contact for traders and business users during the London trading day.
Triage, investigate and resolve production issues across trading, booking, pricing/risk, margin, workflow and reporting tools.
Partner with global technology teams, strats, production management teams to ensure timely resolution of business-impacting issues.
Own follow-through from incident analysis to permanent remediation, including code changes, monitoring improvements, regression tests and documentation.
Hands-on engineering and stability uplift
Design, develop and maintain software across the Structured Credit & Financing technology stack.
Improve system stability, resilience and performance across Genesis trading tools and related backend services.
Refactor fragile or high-risk components to reduce design dependencies, improve supportability and enable faster delivery.
Build stronger automated test coverage, release validation, monitoring and alerting to reduce production incidents.
Contribute to performance tuning, reliability improvements and modernization of existing tools and infrastructure.
Work across UI, service, data and integration layers where needed, while maintaining strong engineering standards.
Business delivery and strategic platform enhancement
Deliver enhancements for Credit Repo, Exotics, TRS, PB related workflows.
Support improvements in trade booking, position visibility, risk/PnL, margin, settlement, collateral, curve/marking processes and reporting.
Partner with business users to turn complex requirements into practical, robust technology solutions.
Help integrate financial models, analytics and risk calculations into scalable trading and risk platforms.
Contribute to strategic platform adoption, including Genesis workflow expansion, APIs, automation and migration away from legacy tooling where appropriate.
Communication, collaboration and team culture
Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including traders, structurers, operations, controllers, risk and senior technology managers.
Explain technical issues, business impact, remediation options and delivery trade-offs in a concise and transparent way.
Work effectively in a global team across London, Hong Kong, New York, Montreal and India.
Be a strong team player who shares knowledge, improves runbooks, supports on-call rotation, and helps raise the capability of junior team members.
Demonstrate ownership, integrity, collaboration and a continuous improvement mindset.
What you’ll bring to the role:
Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative / computational discipline.
Strong hands-on software development experience in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Scala, C++, C#, Python or similar.
Experience building and supporting medium to large-scale server-side applications.
Strong understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, data flows and production support patterns.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose complex issues under time pressure.
Experience working across the full software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis and design through implementation, testing, deployment and production support.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work directly with business users and explain technical topics clearly.
Self-motivated, accountable and comfortable operating with limited supervision.
Strong team player with a collaborative working style.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in front-office technology, trading tools, risk systems, pricing platforms, or financial workflow automation.
Knowledge of Fixed Income, Repo, TRS, Structured Note, CDS/CDS Index/CDS Index Option/CDS Index Tranche, Repacks, PB.
Experience with Genesis or similar front-office trading platforms.
Experience with risk/PnL, margin, collateral, settlement, curve/marking, trade booking, workflow or reporting systems.
Experience improving stability of business-critical applications through refactoring, automated testing, monitoring, performance tuning and production hygiene.
Experience with distributed computing, grid/cloud platforms, service integration, APIs and data-driven workflows.
Experience with modern DevOps and continuous delivery practices.
Experience mentoring junior developers or coordinating delivery across a global team.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
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Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $155,000 and $215,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan St