Senior Backend Engineer: Scalable APIs & Distributed

474 MS Services Group, Inc.

United States

On-site

USD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Morgan Stanley’s Technology division seeks a Director-level Backend Engineer to design and operate production-grade services. You will own end-to-end backend systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and clean abstractions.

You’ll collaborate across teams, ship at scale, and mentor junior engineers while solving real engineering problems rather than toy puzzles. Expect hands-on work with distributed systems, APIs, and data platforms in a globally distributed environment.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of backend development experience.
  • Strong proficiency in Java and Python.
  • Experience building scalable REST APIs and distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with multi-threaded and event-driven architectures.
  • Solid understanding of data structures and memory usage.
  • Knowledge of Spring Framework and dependency injection.
  • Experience with CI/CD and unit testing.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and building backend services and APIs from scratch.
  • Working on distributed systems with scalability, latency, and reliability constraints.
  • Making trade-offs across performance, consistency and complexity.
  • Writing clean, maintainable, and testable code.
  • Owning services end‑to‑end: design - build - deploy - operate.
  • Debugging production issues and improving system resilience over time.

Skills

Java
Python
OO Design
Multi-threading
Event-driven
REST APIs
Distributed systems
Caching
Security basics
CI/CD
Unit testing
SQL/NoSQL

Tools

Spring Framework
PostgreSQL

Job description

Morgan Stanley’s Technology division seeks a Director-level Backend Engineer to design and operate production-grade services. You will own end-to-end backend systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and clean abstractions.

You’ll collaborate across teams, ship at scale, and mentor junior engineers while solving real engineering problems rather than toy puzzles. Expect hands-on work with distributed systems, APIs, and data platforms in a globally distributed environment.

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