Java Software Engineer - Parametric

Morgan Stanley; Mumbai; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Morgan Stanley in Mumbai, India seeks a Principal Software Engineer to provide technical and people leadership, delivering scalable solutions for Direct Indexing platforms. You will guide a team of engineers, drive project delivery, and shape architecture across services and APIs in a cloud-native, highly regulated environment.

Expect collaboration with global teams, mentoring peers, and delivering reliable, high-performance software while embracing the hybrid working model with office and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science or related field.
• 12+ years hands-on software development with leadership of projects.
• 3+ years managing software teams with mentorship and delivery.
• Strong Java and Spring Boot experience.
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop proprietary solutions for equity direct indexing platforms.
• Provide technical leadership by managing engineers, mentoring, and guiding projects.
• Set vision and strategy for the team with strong ownership and accountability.
• Design, develop, and maintain services and APIs for business needs.
• Use scalable distributed computing to build next-gen services.
• Ensure solutions are efficient and compliant in a regulated industry.
• Create unit/integration/functional/performance tests.
• Conduct code reviews and share knowledge to improve processes.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Microservices

Cloud AWS

Kafka

SQL/NoSQL

Team leadership

Mentoring

Debugging

Algorithms

Performance tuning

Stakeholder mgmt

AI tooling

Education

Bachelors in Computer Science

Tools

Redis

DynamoDB

GitHub Copilot Enterprise

GitHub Spec Kit

Job description

Job Summary

The Principal Software Engineer is responsible for providing both technical and people leadership, project delivery, process development, training and support. The role partners across the Equity Investments and Client Activities team, Core Services, and the externally facing Digital Team to design and develop technology solutions that support Direct Indexing business priorities and improve business processes. The role spans multiple services within the team, building out underlying components that provide critical services to the Equity Portfolio Management Platform. These services help streamline rule-based portfolio analytics, order generation and straight through processing enabling exception driven portfolio management.

This position will report into the Investments Innovation Platform team and work closely with team leads across Technology teams, Business Analysis as well as Business Partners. In this role, you will lead developers and projects and provide mentoring opportunities to the development team.

A critical objective for this role is to support the architecture and deliver scalable enterprise solutions, leveraging AWS cloud native technologies, designing and implementing micro-services and a relentless focus on performance and resilience.

This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

Primary Responsibilities

• Design and develop proprietary solutions for the Equity Direct Indexing portfolio management teams
• Provide technical leadership by directly managing a team of engineers, guiding and mentoring them to achieve their highest potential while collectively advancing the goals and projects of the engineering team.
• Drive vision and strategy for the team while exemplifying strong leadership skills, including communication, consensus building, elevated standards, ownership, accountability, and project management.
• Design, develop, and maintain services and API to support various business needs
• Leverage scalable and distributed computing principles to build the next generation of services
• Ensures that software solutions remain integrated, efficient, and appropriate for a highly regulated industry.
• Create unit / integration / functional / performance tests
• Conduct code reviews of other developers
• Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity
• Maintain regular collaboration with teams and stakeholders in the US West Coast time zone, including flexibility to support overlapping working hours when needed.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related area of study
• 12+ years of hands-on development experience managing all aspects of technical projects with a proven track record of delivering well architected and well written software solutions.
• 3+ years of managing software development teams and providing direct guidance, mentorship, project leadership, and team development while fostering an engaging, collaborative environment and building strong cross-team relationships
• Strong Java and Spring Boot experience
• Experience with microservices and distributed systems
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Strong aptitude for highly efficient data structures and algorithms
• Cloud native development experience a plus: AWS is preferred
• Exposure to event-driven architecture (e.g., Kafka)
• Working knowledge of SQL , RDBMS ,NoSQL database engines such as Redis DynamoDB
• Experience using enterprise AI development tools, including GitHub Copilot Enterprise and GitHub Spec Kit, to enable AI-powered Specification-Driven Development.
• Proven track record of becoming a subject matter expert in areas related to current assignments.
• Demonstrated initiative, ownership, and a results-oriented approach to solving complex business and technology challenges.
• Demonstrated sound judgment, integrity, and a commitment to delivering high-quality outcomes in a collaborative environment.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence technical and business stakeholders.
• Familiarity with AI and related technologies, with the ability to apply them in a business or technical context

Good to Have Skills

• Experience with React or modern front-end frameworks
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and SQL
• Asset management experience
• Experience governing enterprise AI agents through secure access, auditability, human oversight, and emerging standards.