Lead Software Engineer - Crypto - Vice President

At Morgan Stanley, we advise, originate, trade, manage and distribute capital for governments, institutions and individuals, and always do so with a standard of excellence. We are a leading global financial services firm that conducts its business through three principal business segments - Institutional Securities, Wealth Management (WM), and Investment Management. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence, and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.

Department Profile

Middle Office is a dynamic and fast-paced area within the Firm s WM Technology Division. We are responsible for creating innovative technology solutions for Core Brokerage, one of the strategic growth areas of the Firm. Middle office is a core foundation for Morgan Stanley. It provides the platform with key capabilities to support customer digital journey from opening an account, funding the account, trade and order management, portfolio/balances, and risk management on all digital channels.

It also provides the capabilities for Morgan Stanley B2B stock plan business to manage participants lifecycle. If you are an exceptional individual who is interested in solving complex problems and building sophisticated solutions in a dynamic team environment, Middle office is the place for you.

Position Description

We are seeking an experienced Software Engineering leader in our Core Brokerage group, who will lead the technical aspects of designing, implementing, testing of various initiatives. The role expects significant engineering ownership in complex server-side applications, including new feature work, improvements on existing code, and active participation in designing and shipping the product.

The incumbent will be working in Middle Office Core Platform Organization to drive product development including requirement gathering, technical solutioning.

• Lead a technical team to design and implement highly reliable, scale-able, extensible, maintainable, global, and operable products and platforms
• Draft and review architectural diagrams, interface specifications, class structures, and other design documents
• Build systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity
• Present opportunities with cost/benefit analysis to leadership in order to shape decisions regarding architectural strategy
• Evangelize technologies, solutions, and best practices developed with the organization
• Develop department-wide technical perspectives, standards, solutions, and strategies that resolve significant product or organizational pain-points
• Participate in a network of principal engineers to share ideas, practices, and experiences
• Work closely with product management and development teams
• You must enjoy challenging engineering problems. We are looking for someone who can solve complex issues
• We value principal engineers who do enough hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends inside and outside the company
• Lead and mentor other back-end engineers Basic
• Minimum of 10 years of software development experience
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related field
• Strong Proficiency with either Go or Java/J2EE

• Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, data structures, continuous integration and deployment architecture
• Solid experience in working with either Golang or Java. Knowledge in multiple languages like GO, Java, C++, Java script will be a plus.
• Knowledge on Spring, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate and C/C++, batch scripts - perl, ksh.
• Good understanding of Web Services protocols such as REST, SOAP, IDL, gRPC and API design for extensibility and portability
• Experience writing SQL queries for Sybase / Oracle or another Relational Database is required.
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