Lead Backend Engineer, Distributed Systems (Java/Python)

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is a leading financial services firm seeking a backend engineer to design and implement production-grade services. You will work on distributed systems, APIs, and platform concerns, focusing on reliability, latency, and scalability.

The role emphasizes ownership from design through deployment and operation. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of hands-on experience with Java and Python, strong OO design skills, and experience in building scalable REST APIs and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend engineering experience with production systems.
• Strong proficiency in Java and Python for backend services.
• Deep understanding of REST APIs, distributed systems, and scalability.
• Solid grasp of object-oriented design, data structures, and patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and build backend services and APIs from scratch.
• Work on distributed systems with real scalability and reliability constraints.
• Make trade-offs across performance, consistency, and complexity.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• Own services end-to-end: design - build - deploy - operate.
• Debug production issues and improve system resilience.

Skills

Java

Python

HTTP

OO Design

Data Structures

Multithreading

Event-driven

Distributed Systems

REST APIs

Security Fundamentals

Tools

Spring Framework

Dependency Injection

AOP

Transaction Management

CI/CD

Job description

Morgan Stanley is a leading financial services firm seeking a backend engineer to design and implement production-grade services. You will work on distributed systems, APIs, and platform concerns, focusing on reliability, latency, and scalability.

The role emphasizes ownership from design through deployment and operation. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of hands-on experience with Java and Python, strong OO design skills, and experience in building scalable REST APIs and distributed systems.