Electronic Trading Software Engineer, Vice President

Morgan Stanley•New York, NY

23h

About The Position

Morgan Stanley is seeking an experienced electronic trading Java senior developer to help advance its market-leading options, futures & structured market making and algorithmic trading engines. The role involves building, deploying & supporting trading strategies, analytical tools, scalable trading engine infrastructure, working as part of a fast-moving IT / quant / trading team. This is an agile, front-office role facing off with the business and as such strong communication skills and ability to work in a team is essential. You will be using core Java development to build and enhance trading strategies and engines The role involves working directly with the global trading, quant and IT teams to advance the platform and the businesses it serves. The project portfolio is typically varied, spanning new and existing algorithm development, improving the technical and execution performance of trading systems, the generation and analysis of trading signals & data You will be involved in the full software development lifecycle from discussing and agreeing requirements, formulating designs developing and deploying the changes The systems you will work on are high volume, low latency, resilient, scalable and message-driven based on cutting edge Java and utilizing the latest hardware

Requirements

Expert-level core Java knowledge in a UNIX/Linux environment with minimum 10 years of experience
Track record working in front-office environment with trading and quantitative strategists
Experience working on systems for automated market making, algo trading in liquid markets (equities, FX, liquid rates, etc.)
Experience with low-latency messaging middleware pub/sub technologies
Candidate must have electronic trading knowledge: options / cash / ETF / futures preferred; liquid rates / FX acceptable
Strong problem solving skills
Ability to analyze business & technical requirements and translate them into a well designed & coded solution
Strong communication skills and ability to work in a team is essential

Nice To Haves

Experience interacting with and writing KDB/Q queries
Experience with Java/GC/Linux
HTML5/Angular development
Derivatives product and market knowledge. Option pricing and trading would be an advantage