Senior Software Engineer, Structured Credit & Financing Technology

Morgan Stanley

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Work type
On-site
Location
New York, NY
Salary
$155,000–$215,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
37 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday

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Similar $182k
This role $185k
$107k most similar roles pay here $244k

This role pays more than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $151,000–$213,200 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $185k versus about $182k for comparable roles.

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About Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities, wealth management, and investment management services to corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. Industry: Investment Banking & Financial Services

Morgan Stanley currently has 41 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Senior Software Engineer, Structured Credit & Financing Technology

Senior Software Engineer- Structured Credit & Financing Technology is a Vice President level role within the Structured Credit & Financing Technology team. This position provides intraday desk-facing coverage for Credit Repo, Credit Exotics, and Genesis trading tools while delivering strategic stability and platform enhancements across structured credit workflows. The engineer will triage production issues, refactor high-risk components, improve system resilience, and develop automated testing and monitoring to support trade booking, risk/PnL, margin, settlement, and reporting. Candidates must possess a degree in a quantitative field and proficiency in Java, Scala, C++, C#, or Python. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, service-oriented architecture, and data flows. This position addresses complex financial problems by integrating models and analytics into scalable trading platforms while managing the technical requirements of front-office business operations and workflow automation.

What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?

Median $212500 from 219 postings across 50 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Provide intraday technical support and production ownership for Credit Repo and Credit Exotics trading tools.
  • Triage and resolve production issues across trading, booking, risk, margin, and reporting systems.
  • Design, develop, and maintain software across the Structured Credit & Financing technology stack.
  • Refactor high-risk components to improve system stability, performance, and supportability.
  • Build automated testing, monitoring, and alerting systems to reduce production incidents.
  • Translate complex business requirements into robust technical solutions for trade booking and risk management.
  • Integrate financial models and analytics into scalable trading and risk platforms.
  • Communicate technical issues and delivery trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What we're looking for

  • 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.
  • Experience working across the full software development lifecycle from requirements analysis through deployment and production support.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain technical topics clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience in front-office technology, trading tools, risk systems, or financial workflow automation (preferred).
  • Knowledge of Fixed Income, Repo, TRS, Structured Note, CDS/CDS Index/CDS Index Option/CDS Index Tranche, Repacks, PB (preferred).

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