Front-Office Lead Software Engineer, Derivatives Platform

Morgan Stanley; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in London to join the Structured Rates Technology team. You will build strategic pricing, risk and workflow platforms for traders and desk strategists, spanning pre-trade pricing, intraday risk and PnL, market data and lifecycle management for complex derivatives.

You will collaborate with quantitative strategists and front-office stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions in a globally distributed team, using Sparked Scala codebase and modern

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant engineering experience in front-office or complex financial systems.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and scalable distributed systems design.
• Proficiency in Scala, Java, and optional Python/C++/C# for backend development.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with traders and desk strategists to design strategic technology solutions.
• Contribute across the full software development lifecycle for pricing, risk and workflow platforms.
• Develop large-scale distributed systems leveraging high-performance data platforms and caching.

Skills

Scala

Java

Python

C++

C#

Distributed systems

Front-office engagement

Stakeholder management

Tools

Distributed caches

Graph computing

Grid computing

Messaging frameworks

High-performance data platforms

Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking a Lead Software Engineer in London to join the Structured Rates Technology team. You will build strategic pricing, risk and workflow platforms for traders and desk strategists, spanning pre-trade pricing, intraday risk and PnL, market data and lifecycle management for complex derivatives.

You will collaborate with quantitative strategists and front-office stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions in a globally distributed team, using Sparked Scala codebase and modern