The Lead Software Engineer position at Morgan Stanley focuses on building a large, resilient, scalable, and secure distributed settlement platform within the Global Security Settlements Team. This role requires collaboration with product owners, business analysts, and other teams to clarify requirements and drive system architecture. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in developing distributed systems and leading a development team. The position is based in New York and emphasizes the importance of agile practices and cloud technologies.

• 10+ years of experience in building distributed systems applying agile practices.
• Experience in owning a delivery end-to-end and leading a development team comprised of Backend and/or Data Engineers.
• Strong working knowledge of core Java and Spring frameworks including spring-boot and testing.
• Proven expertise in designing, developing, and maintaining robust RESTful and/or GraphQL APIs.
• Strong understanding of managing and scaling high volume databases, with experience in MS SQL, Snowflake, and Mongo DB preferred.
• Sound understanding of microservice architecture and design patterns.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

• Collaborate with product owners, business analysts and other teams to clarify the requirements, define milestones and backlog based on business priorities.
• Drive the definition of system architecture and design.
• Write clean, performant, scalable, testable, and reusable code.
• Review pull requests and guide more junior developers in adopting best practices.
• Guide the team to follow the best DevOps practices and enhance system observability, availability, and resiliency.
• Act as an end-to-end owner ensuring the system is developed, tested, and deployed as planned.
• Contribute to enhancing team standards and improving processes.

• Morgan Stanley offers extensive benefits that support employees’ careers, health, finances, and families, including top-tier medical coverage, mental health support, generous parental leave, fertility and family-building benefits, and robust retirement and stock purchase plans. Employees also gain access to continuous learning and networking opportunities, volunteer and giving programs aligned with the firm’s values, and hundreds of lifestyle perks like discounted products, cultural and entertainment tickets, and commuter savings.