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This role pays more than
61%
of similar roles. Most pay
$157,200–$214,625
— the blue band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$185k
versus about
$186k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
Employer
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
40 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$154,000–$214,000
across 34 roles with salary data.
The Vice President - Software Engineer - Backend joins the Technology division to develop and maintain software solutions supporting business needs. This role involves designing and building new backend services and APIs from scratch, focusing on distributed systems with real scalability, latency, and reliability constraints. The engineer will own services end-to-end by designing, building, deploying, and operating production-grade systems while debugging production issues to improve resilience. Key technical requirements include strong proficiency in Java and Python, object-oriented design, and data structures. Candidates must demonstrate experience with multi-threaded and event-driven systems, Spring Framework, dependency injection, and transaction management. The work involves solving complex engineering problems related to REST APIs, pub-sub patterns, caching strategies, batch processing, and data pipelines within a financial services context.
What does a Software Engineer earn in New York?
Median $216000 from 270 postings across 57 companies.