Senior Java Lead, Investment Banking Tech & IBD/GCM

474 MS Services Group, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 155,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a senior, hands-on Lead Software Engineer in New York to drive architecture and delivery for IST Division within IBD & GCM Technology. You will lead a team of engineers, own core Java services, and collaborate with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes strong Java expertise (Spring Boot), modern frontend work with React/Angular, and leadership in a complex, global financial services environment.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years’ relevant experience designing, building, and operating enterprise-scale applications.
• Strong hands-on Java engineering skills, including Spring Boot, concurrent programming, RESTful API design, and automated testing.
• Full stack experience, including building modern web applications with JavaScript/TypeScript frameworks such as React or Angular.
• Proven experience managing or leading engineers, including setting direction, mentoring, and growing talent.
• A track record of working directly with business stakeholders, gathering requirements, influencing strategy, and translating business needs into technical solutions.
• Strong system design and architecture skills, with a firm grasp of enterprise architecture patterns and experience building resilient, fault-tolerant, and well-tested applications.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to adapt between business users, senior management, and detailed engineering discussions.
• Strong relational database and SQL skills, and solid Linux fundamentals.
• A genuine interest in understanding the business domain, not just the technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage, and develop a group of engineers, setting priorities, providing technical mentorship, and fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Act as the primary technology partner to business stakeholders in IBD and GCM: gather requirements, shape priorities, and lead initiatives from concept through delivery.
• Lead the architectural design and modernization of defined components within our ecosystem, and drive analysis and design for initiatives that span multiple teams and systems.
• Act as a hands-on engineer, personally tackling the most challenging problems and building scalable, resilient backend services in Java alongside modern web front ends.
• Communicate regularly with product leads across the technology organization and discuss opportunities for improvement to existing and future technology solutions.
• Promote engineering best practices, including code quality, automated testing, and CI/CD, and help drive their continued evolution across the team.
• Own the stability of production systems, lead the resolution of complex incidents, and communicate clearly with business users during critical events.
• Actively use AI tooling to accelerate the software development lifecycle while applying strong engineering judgment and oversight.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

RESTful APIs

Automated testing

JavaScript/TypeScript

React

Angular

Leadership/mentoring

System design

Tools

Kafka/MQ

GitHub

Claude Code / Amp

Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking a senior, hands-on Lead Software Engineer in New York to drive architecture and delivery for IST Division within IBD & GCM Technology. You will lead a team of engineers, own core Java services, and collaborate with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes strong Java expertise (Spring Boot), modern frontend work with React/Angular, and leadership in a complex, global financial services environment.