Vice President - Software Engineer - Backend
About The Position
Morgan Stanley is hiring a Vice President-level backend software engineer in its Technology division. The role focuses on developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs, including production-grade backend services and APIs. The engineer will work with distributed systems and address real-world scalability, latency, reliability, performance, consistency, and complexity concerns. The role includes end-to-end ownership of services, from design and implementation through deployment and operation. The engineer will write maintainable, testable code; debug production issues; and improve system resilience. The work involves APIs, data, platform concerns, event-driven systems, and collaboration with globally distributed teams and business stakeholders. The job description describes an engineering culture that values clear reasoning, simplicity, ownership, and meaningful contributions.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in Java and Python for backend application development.
- Solid understanding of HTTP fundamentals.
- Strong understanding of object-oriented design, clean class modeling, and design patterns.
- Good command of data structures and collections, including when to use them.
- Hands-on experience with multithreaded and event-driven systems.
- Awareness of memory usage and time and space complexity.
- Experience with dependency injection, lifecycle management, AOP concepts, and transaction management.
- Familiarity with connection pools, resource management, databases, and caching.
- Experience designing scalable REST APIs and distributed systems.
- Experience with messaging/pub-sub systems and event-driven architectures.
- Understanding of security fundamentals, including authentication, authorization, and encryption.
- Understanding of logging, monitoring, and observability.
- Experience with unit testing, CI/CD pipelines, and agile development practices.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Comfort working in globally distributed teams and collaborating with business stakeholders.
- 10+ years of relevant experience.
Nice To Haves
- Practical understanding of batch processing and data pipelines.
- Experience with BDD testing frameworks and tools.
Responsibilities
- Design and build new backend services and APIs from scratch.
- Work on distributed systems subject to scalability, latency, and reliability constraints.
- Make trade-offs involving performance, consistency, and complexity.
- Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
- Own services end-to-end, including design, build, deployment, and operation.
- Debug production issues and improve system resilience over time.
- Design stable, scalable, and performant read and write APIs.
- Work with event-driven systems, pub-sub patterns, caching strategies, and fault-tolerance concerns.
- Collaborate with globally distributed teams and business stakeholders.
Benefits
- Morgan Stanley-sponsored benefit programs and employee perks; specific benefits are not enumerated.
- Potential commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, and other short- and long-term incentive packages, depending on the position.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
