Hybrid Senior Software Engineer - Financial Systems

Morgan Stanley; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 78,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental & Vision

401(k)

Job summary

Morgan Stanley's Parametric team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and integrate proprietary middle- and back-office systems. You will work on investment and portfolio management software in a mature, collaborative environment.

This hybrid role offers 3 days in the office with the option to work remotely the remaining days. Strong Java, AWS, Docker, SQL, and modern UI experience are required to deliver scalable solutions and collaborate with business users and engineers.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on professional software development experience using Java.
• AI fluency, including understanding of the current AI landscape, engineering integration strategies, and emerging agentic development techniques.
• Effective communication skills with business users and other developers
• Solid understanding of core language features (interfaces, generics, annotations, reflection, closures, etc.)
• Practical knowledge of Spring, Spring Boot, and Hibernate
• Familiarity with containers (Docker)
• Proven experience with AWS services: EC2, ECS, S3, Fargate, Aurora, Lambda
• Experience building highly interactive web-based user interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST, and JSON (ExtJS a plus)
• Proven experience with test driven development, JUnit, and test mocking
• Strong knowledge of RDBMS and SQL
• Familiarity with Git
• Working experience with agile development
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Gradle and GitLab
• Understanding of SOA, AOP, MVC, DAO, observer patterns
• Tomcat experience
• Willingness to become SME in areas related to current assignments
• Financial services industry experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with the business unit and other team members to understand and document requirements.
• Provide flexible solutions to complex business problems using our technology practices.
• Design, develop, and support technical and business-oriented applications, including business tier components, relational database models, interactive web-based user interfaces, and integration with third-party data providers and systems.
• Create unit, integration, and functional tests.
• Contribute to evolution of our architecture to make it more flexible and easier to use.
• Follow our development process and guidelines.
• Conduct code reviews of other developers.
• Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate.

Skills

Java

AI fluency

Communication

SQL

AWS

ExtJS

REST/JSON

JUnit

Git

Spring

Docker

Tomcat

SOA/AOP/design patterns

Tools

GitLab

Gradle

Job description

Morgan Stanley's Parametric team seeks a Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and integrate proprietary middle- and back-office systems. You will work on investment and portfolio management software in a mature, collaborative environment.

This hybrid role offers 3 days in the office with the option to work remotely the remaining days. Strong Java, AWS, Docker, SQL, and modern UI experience are required to deliver scalable solutions and collaborate with business users and engineers.