This is a Director-level Software Engineering position at Morgan Stanley, focused on developing and maintaining software solutions that meet business needs. The role emphasizes building scalable backend services and APIs, with a strong emphasis on distributed systems and real-world engineering challenges. Candidates should be comfortable with ambiguity and possess strong problem-solving skills. The position offers an opportunity to work on meaningful systems that have a real impact on the financial services industry.

• Strong proficiency in Java and Python for backend application development.
• Solid understanding of Object-Oriented Design, Design Patterns, and data structures.
• 4+ years of relevant experience in software engineering.
• Experience building scalable REST APIs and distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with multi-threaded and event-driven systems.
• Knowledge of Spring Framework, dependency injection, AOP, and transaction management.
• Familiarity with databases, caching, connection pooling, and resource management.
• Understanding of security fundamentals, logging, monitoring, and observability.
• Experience with unit testing, CI/CD pipelines, and agile development practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Design and build new backend services and APIs from scratch.
• Work on distributed systems with real scalability, latency, and reliability constraints.
• Make thoughtful trade-offs across performance, consistency, and complexity.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code that others enjoy working with.
• Own services end-to-end: design, build, deploy, and operate.
• Debug production issues and improve system resilience over time.

• 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.