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About the Role

This is a Senior Software Engineering position at the Vice President level, responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs within the Technology division. The role involves providing 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.

Responsibilities

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.
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.
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.
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.

Requirements

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.
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.
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.

Skills

Java
Scala
C++
C#
Python
Distributed systems
Service-oriented architecture
Data flows
Production support
Problem-solving
Full software development lifecycle
Communication
Front-office technology
Trading tools
Risk systems
Pricing platforms
Financial workflow automation
Fixed Income
Repo
TRS
Structured Note
CDS
Repacks
PB
Genesis
Risk/PnL
Margin
Collateral
Settlement
Curve/marking
Trade booking
Workflow automation
Reporting systems
DevOps
Continuous delivery

Location

New York

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Vice President
Senior

Education Level

Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative / computational discipline.

Salary/Compensations

$155,000 - $215,000

Benefits

Commission earnings
Incentive compensation
Discretionary bonuses
Other short and long-term incentive packages
Other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs

About the Company

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.
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.
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.

Equal Opportunity

Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.
Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.
Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.