Morgan Stanley
Lead Software Engineer - Parametric
$115K–$225K
New York, New York · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 15, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of hands-on Software Development experience; team leadership, distributed systems, and legacy modernization experience are also requested.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field; Master’s degree is a plus.
About the job
Leads development and modernization of Parametric’s AWS-based performance reporting engine, which calculates and delivers portfolio performance metrics across the firm.
What you'll do
- Architect and lead a scalable, event-driven performance calculation engine and migration of legacy reporting systems to cloud-native architecture.
- Set engineering practices for system reliability, testing, code quality, and Agile delivery.
- Mentor engineers and partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate financial requirements into technical solutions.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of hands-on Software Development experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
- Experience leading or guiding software development teams and architecting highly available, distributed, event-driven systems.
- Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka or equivalent streaming/messaging platforms; strong experience with relational databases, SQL, and NoSQL data stores.
Nice to have
- C#/.NET and AWS experience.
- Master’s degree; experience in Financial Services, Terraform, Snowflake, microservices, Serverless technologies, or CI/CD pipelines.
Pay
USD 115,000 to USD 225,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
C#/.NET, AWS, Apache Kafka, SQL, DynamoDB, Terraform, Snowflake, Serverless
AI focus
Fluency in AI/GenAI for engineering productivity, including integration strategy, code review, test-case creation, and code generation.
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