Senior Software Engineer, Front-Office Structured Credit

Socket.dev; New York (NY); On-site; USD 155,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley in New York seeks a hands-on Senior Software Engineer at the Vice President level to join the Structured Credit & Financing Technology team. You will provide intraday desk coverage, partner with traders and global tech teams, and improve stability across Genesis trading tools and backend services.

The role emphasizes ownership, strong communication, and delivering robust platforms for trade booking, risk/PnL, margin, settlement and reporting in a fast-moving front-office

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative / computational discipline.
• Strong hands-on software development experience in one or more modern programming languages such as Java, Scala, C++, C#, Python or similar.
• Experience building and supporting medium to large-scale server-side applications.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, data flows and production support patterns.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to work with business users across a global team.

Responsibilities

• Provide intraday coverage for Structured Credit & Financing trading tools, with primary focus on Credit Repo, Credit Exotics Genesis-based workflows.
• Act as a senior technology contact for traders and business users during the London trading day.
• Triage, investigate and resolve production issues across trading, booking, pricing/risk, margin, workflow and reporting tools.
• Partner with global technology teams, strats, production management teams to ensure timely resolution of business-impacting issues.
• Own follow-through from incident analysis to permanent remediation, including code changes, monitoring improvements, regression tests and documentation.

Skills

Java

Scala

C++

C#

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree or above in CS/Engineering/Math/Physics

Job description

Morgan Stanley in New York seeks a hands-on Senior Software Engineer at the Vice President level to join the Structured Credit & Financing Technology team. You will provide intraday desk coverage, partner with traders and global tech teams, and improve stability across Genesis trading tools and backend services.

The role emphasizes ownership, strong communication, and delivering robust platforms for trade booking, risk/PnL, margin, settlement and reporting in a fast-moving front-office