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 Software Engineering III position at the Director level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.

Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.

Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on.

We are seeking an experienced backend engineer to join our Middle Office Core Platform Organization. This team owns systems, services and initiatives to provide financial products to our customers across digital channels. This organization is responsible for building financial products, platform capabilities and components that are used by millions of customers daily.

As a senior backend engineer, you will be working in Middle Office Core Platform Organization to drive product development and modernization initiatives. You are builder and have deep understanding of tools and technologies to build products that delivers business outcomes and obsess about customer. You will be responsible for designing and programming a small module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features.

What you’ll do in the role:

• Engage in technical discussions; participate in technical designs and present technical ideas through white boarding

• Work closely with your peers and keep engaging in a fast pace technical design and development team

• Execute in a fast pace delivery mode and focus in delivering tasks to meet the product release goal

• Maintain code quality through best practices, unit testing and code quality automation

• Understand whole product, its modules and the interrelationship between them while being an expert in the assigned component or module

• Help in designing interfaces and information exchange between modules

• Possess advanced domain knowledge and show great customer focus. Expert in processes / methodologies and Skilled in build, release & deployment processes

• Articulate the need for scalability and understand the importance of improving quality through testing.

• Be an expert in writing code that meets standards and delivers the desired functionality using the technology selected for the project

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

• A minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience or 5 years with master’s or 2 years with PhD

• Strong knowledge of Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Software Design Patterns and coding principles

• Hands-on experience in microservices architecture and development, Databases such as Oracle MySQL, Sybase, PostgreSQL etc.

• 7 years or more experience in C/C/Java , Go and Python

• Preferred experience in Service Mesh, Containers and Kubernetes technologies

• Preferred hands-on experience in building cloud-based software leveraging cloud and open source technology and frameworks

• Experience in building scalable and highly available distributed systems

• Experience in assessing application performance and optimizing/improving it through design and best coding practices

• Expert in core data structures as well as algorithms and can implement them using language of choice

• Preferred understanding and experience in one of the public clouds (AWS, Azure) native services

• Experience in agile software development

• Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of articulating specific technical topics or assignments

• Evangelizes how our technology solves customer problems from a technology and business perspective

• Demonstrates clarity of thinking to work through limited information and vague problem definitions

• Proactively identifies and address customer issues in product

• Shares knowledge, establishing trust, credibility, and goodwill

• Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership with confidence and clarity

• Able to work well with global teams, including time-zone flexibility

• Open to take new responsibility, learn new technologies or systems to deliver business value

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 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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Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).