Senior Software Engineer - Parametric

About Morgan Stanley

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Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what’s important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi‑asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs.

We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients’ core holdings.

This role is part of Parametric’s hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

The Operations Technology team at Parametric:

• We are responsible for the development of Parametric’s proprietary software supporting middle‑ and back‑office operations, including our reconciliation, accounting, and settlements systems.
• We are building high‑value software to enable complex, time‑sensitive business workflows.
• We are technology‑driven and building for scale and resilience, enabling our business to support clients with improved efficiency and reduced operational risk.

The Investment Systems:
Operations Technology team is responsible for the development of Parametric’s proprietary software supporting middle‑ and back‑office operations, including our reconciliation, accounting, and settlements systems.

The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for design, development, and integration of various technology solutions, including the development of our proprietary investment and portfolio management systems. Parametric provides a mature working environment for software professionals who excel when working collaboratively with other talented individuals. We pride ourselves on our modern development practices and constantly strive to improve them. Custom software solutions are a key element of our success and, as such, we consider software engineering a tier‑one competency.

• Work closely with the business unit and other team members to understand and document requirements.
• Provide flexible solutions to complex business problems using our technology practices.
• Design, develop, and support technical and business‑oriented applications, including business tier components, relational database models, interactive web‑based user interfaces, and integration solutions with third‑party data providers and systems.
• Create unit, integration, and functional tests.
• Contribute to the evolution of our architecture to make it more flexible and easier to use.
• Follow our development process and guidelines.
• Conduct code reviews of other developers.
• Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate.

• 5+ years of hands‑on professional software development experience using Java.
• AI fluency, including understanding of the current AI landscape, engineering integration strategies, and emerging agentic development techniques.
• Effective communication skills with business users and other developers.
• Solid understanding of core language features and how to use them properly (interfaces, generics, annotations, reflection, closures, etc.).
• Practical knowledge of major open source projects including Spring, Spring Boot, and Hibernate.
• Familiarity with containers (Docker).
• Proven experience working with various AWS cloud services like EC2, ECS, S3, Fargate, Aurora, and Lambda.
• Experience building highly interactive web‑based user interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST, and JSON (knowledge of ExtJS is a plus).
• Proven experience with test‑driven development, JUnit, and test mocking.
• Strong…