Senior Java Software Engineer - Vice President

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 Senior Software Engineering position at the Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.

About the Role

We're hiring a senior hands on engineer for the Morgan Stanley Equity Swaps technology team — the platform behind a market-leading, global front-office business. You'll be working hands-on inside a large-scale, real-time, event-driven system that processes significant volume every day, alongside a team actively modernizing the platform rather than just maintaining it.

This isn't a role where seniority means stepping away from code. You'll be designing, architecting, and building core components yourself, while also shaping technical direction and mentoring less experienced engineers on the team. Expect real ownership: you'll be trusted to make architectural calls, not just implement someone else's spec.

What you'll do in the role:

• Building and evolving a multi-threaded, Linux-based, real-time Java platform handling high-throughput event flows
• Driving analysis, design, and architecture for complex, cross-team initiatives
• Working with an interesting tech stack: RDBMS alongside technologies like MongoDB, Kafka, IBM MQ, Hazelcast, and Snowflake
• Getting deeply hands-on with our large sharded MongoDB cluster, with the expectation of growing into one of the team's go-to subject matter expert on its design, performance, and operational behaviour
• Becoming a technical expert on our core cashflow calculator — not just the code, but the underlying numbers, so you can reason confidently about whether outputs are actually correct, not just whether the system ran without error
• Strengthening our test automation and deployment practices — we...