Lead Java Software Engineer - Backend (VP)
Company: Morgan Stanley
Location: New York, NY 10036
Salary: $150,000 - $210,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-05-28
About this role
In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities.
This is a Lead Software Engineering position at Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.
Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.
Global Security Settlements Team Profile
Our platform provides one of the most critical functions enabling the firm to effect security settlements in all the markets the firm conducts the business in. On peak volume days, the Firm processes up to forty million trades and effects settlements worth of hundreds of billions of dollars for activity ongoing in multiple countries and currencies across the globe.
Our team has significant presence in Montreal, New York, and India. We are organized into agile squads closely aligned with product owners, users, and other stakeholders, which allows us to directly observe the business benefit of the solutions we develop, deploy and support. We believe in the forward momentum and progress of technology, and our goal is to apply the best tools and practices to deliver exceptional capabilities for our business users.
Role
We in Securities Settlements Tech are looking for a VP (Lead Software Engineer) in New York, preferably with exposure to Cloud Architectures & Public Cloud offerings to join our team building a large, resilient, scalable, and secure distributed settlement platform. You will be a leader building software and managing huge volume of data to support and improve efficiency of firm’s settlement related activities. Working in an agile environment, you will have to interact directly with the users, product owne...