Senior Software Engineer, Structured Credit Tech

Morgan-Stanley; Town of Islip (NY); On-site; USD 155,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a hands-on Vice President level Software Engineer to join the Structured Credit & Financing Technology team in New York. The role focuses on intraday desk coverage for Credit Repo, Credit Exotics and Genesis-based workflows, while delivering platform enhancements across trade booking, risk/PnL, margin, settlement, and reporting.

The ideal candidate will be a strong hands-on developer with ownership mindset and excellent communication, able to operate in a global team

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree 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.

Responsibilities

• Provide intraday desk coverage for Structured Credit & Financing trading tools, with primary focus on Credit Repo, Credit Exotics Genesis-based workflows.
• Triage, investigate and resolve production issues across trading, booking, pricing/risk, margin, workflow and reporting tools.
• Design, develop and maintain software across the Structured Credit & Financing technology stack.
• Improve system stability, resilience and performance across Genesis trading tools and related backend services.
• Collaborate with traders, strats, operations, controllers, market risk and global technology teams.

Skills

Java

Scala

C++

C#

Python

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Genesis

Trading platforms

Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking a hands-on Vice President level Software Engineer to join the Structured Credit & Financing Technology team in New York. The role focuses on intraday desk coverage for Credit Repo, Credit Exotics and Genesis-based workflows, while delivering platform enhancements across trade booking, risk/PnL, margin, settlement, and reporting.

The ideal candidate will be a strong hands-on developer with ownership mindset and excellent communication, able to operate in a global team