Morgan Stanley
Senior Java Software Engineer - Vice President
$155K–$215K
New York, New York · On-site · Director · Full-time · Posted Sep 23, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years.
About the job
Build and modernize a real-time Java platform for the Equity Swaps business, combining hands-on engineering with technical leadership and production ownership.
What you'll do
- Design, architect, build, and deliver complex platform initiatives across systems and teams.
- Lead technical discussions, mentor engineers, and develop expertise in the platform’s sharded MongoDB cluster and cashflow calculator.
- Provide L3 incident support and help strengthen test automation, deployment, and CI/CD practices.
What they ask for
- 10+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems.
- Strong Java skills, including concurrent or multi-threaded programming, Spring Boot (Core Spring), and automated testing.
- Technical leadership experience driving designs, mentoring engineers, and delivering complex cross-team initiatives.
- Experience with event-driven architectures and messaging systems (Kafka and/or IBM MQ); strong RDBMS skills, complex SQL, and performance tuning; Unix/Linux scripting (Shell and/or Python).
Nice to have
- Experience operating or tuning large-scale sharded MongoDB clusters.
- Knowledge of Equity Derivatives, financial calculations, or AI-assisted development tools.
Pay
$155,000 and $215,000 per year USD (base salary)
Tools
Java, Spring Boot (Core Spring), MongoDB, Kafka, IBM MQ, Hazelcast, Snowflake, Sybase
AI focus
Actively use AI tools such as Claude, Amp, and Deep Search to accelerate the software development lifecycle, with engineering judgment and oversight.
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