Senior Software Engineer- Structured Credit & Financing Technology
Morgan Stanley3 months ago
Base Salary
$155k - $215k/yr
Responsibilities
- Provide intraday coverage and production ownership for Credit Repo, Credit Exotics, and Genesis-based trading workflows.
- Triage, investigate, and resolve issues across trading, booking, pricing, risk/PnL, margin, workflow, reporting, and related systems.
- Design, develop, maintain, refactor, and modernize software across UI, service, data, and integration layers.
- Improve system stability, resilience, performance, monitoring, alerting, automated testing, and release validation.
- Deliver enhancements for Credit Repo, Exotics, TRS, and PB workflows, including trade booking, position visibility, risk/PnL, margin, settlement, collateral, curve/marking, and reporting.
- Integrate financial models, analytics, and risk calculations into scalable trading and risk platforms.
- Partner with traders, structurers, operations, controllers, market risk, strats, and global technology teams to translate business requirements into solutions.
- Support on-call rotation, improve runbooks and documentation, communicate technical issues and trade-offs, and help develop junior team members.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative or computational discipline.
- Strong hands-on software development experience in one or more modern programming languages, such as Java, Scala, C++, C#, or Python.
- 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.
- Experience across the software development lifecycle from requirements and design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work directly with business users, explain technical topics clearly, operate with limited supervision, and collaborate effectively.
- Preferred experience in front-office technology, trading tools, risk systems, pricing platforms, financial workflow automation, or Genesis and similar platforms.
- Preferred knowledge of Fixed Income, Repo, TRS, Structured Notes, CDS, CDS Index, CDS Index Options, CDS Index Tranches, Repacks, or PB.
- Preferred experience with risk/PnL, margin, collateral, settlement, curve/marking, trade booking, workflow, reporting, distributed computing, grid/cloud platforms, service integration, APIs, data-driven workflows, DevOps, continuous delivery, mentoring, or global delivery coordination.
Benefits
- Morgan Stanley offers comprehensive employee benefits and perks for employees and their families.
- The position is based in New York and operates in a global team spanning London, Hong Kong, New York, Montreal, and India.
- The role includes participation in an on-call rotation.
- Expected base pay is $155,000 to $215,000 per year; additional compensation and benefits may include incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other incentive packages, and sponsored benefit programs.
About Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm that provides investment banking, sales and trading, wealth management, and investment management to corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. It earns fees, commissions, and interest and trading income across advisory, underwriting, brokerage, and asset management businesses. Founded in 1935 and headquartered in New York, the public company operates in more than 40 countries through thousands of offices, including a large U.S. wealth management franchise.