Software Engineer - Director
Company: Morgan Stanley
Location: New York, NY 10036
Salary: $120,000 - $165,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Posted: 2026-04-14
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 Software Engineering III position at the Director level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.
Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.
Interested in joining a team that’s eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on.
What you'll do in the role:
- Design and deliver scalable, maintainable software solutions using strong object-oriented design principles.
- Develop and maintain data ingestion platform (ETL/Streaming) for large scale data warehousing.
- Build and enhance automation tools and scripts to support development and operational workflows.
- Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, improving release reliability and deployment efficiency.
- Apply Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices to ensure quality, testability, and long-term maintainability.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Troubleshoot and debug applications in UNIX/Linux environments.
What you will bring to the role:
- 5+ years of relevant hands on software development experience, with demonstrated good ownership and independent delivery.
- Strong DB2 database admin experience and project exposure for real time solutions in tunning of database performances including (not limited to) stored procs, views, MQTs.
- Hands-on experience with RDBMS and SQL, such as DB2, PostgreSQL, or Sybase.
- Good programming skills in Scala, Java & Python with understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP).
- Proficiency in Linux/UNIX, including comma...