VP Backend Systems Engineer

Morgan Stanley; New York (NY); On-site; USD 155,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Morgan Stanley is seeking a strong backend engineer at the Vice President level to design, build, and operate production-grade services in a scalable distributed environment. You will write clean, testable code in Java and Python, and own services end-to-end—from design through deployment and operation.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years of hands-on experience with backend systems, a deep understanding of HTTP and REST, and a passion for solving real engineering problems at scale.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend software engineering experience.
• Experience building production services with Java and Python.
• Ability to design scalable distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs and HTTP fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building new backend services and APIs from scratch.
• Working on distributed systems with real scalability, latency, and reliability constraints.
• Owning services end‑to‑end: design - build - deploy - operate.
• Debugging production issues and improving system resilience over time.

Skills

Java

Python

HTTP

OOP

Multithreading

Distributed systems

REST APIs

CI/CD

Concurrency

Tools

Spring Framework

Dependency Injection

AOP

Transaction Management

Caching

Databases

Messaging

Job description

Morgan Stanley is seeking a strong backend engineer at the Vice President level to design, build, and operate production-grade services in a scalable distributed environment. You will write clean, testable code in Java and Python, and own services end-to-end—from design through deployment and operation.

Ideal candidates have 4+ years of hands-on experience with backend systems, a deep understanding of HTTP and REST, and a passion for solving real engineering problems at scale.