Description
ABOUT MORGAN STANLEY
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.
ABOUT PARAMETRIC
Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings.
This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.
ABOUT PARAMETRIC TECHNOLOGY
We design and build financial software for Parametric’s proprietary investment systems technologies for the entire account lifecycle across Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives. We are technology-driven and building for scale and resilience, enabling our business to support clients with improved efficiency and reduced operational risk.
ABOUT THE TEAMS
Parametric’s Investment Systems group designs and builds the proprietary technology platforms that support our trading, portfolio management, compliance, and derivatives strategies. Our custom software plays a mission-critical role across the investment lifecycle—from real-time trade execution to derivatives modeling to operational automation.
We are hiring Senior Software Engineers to join two core teams:
The Trading Platform Team, responsible for shared trading architecture, platform tooling, and performance-critical components used across asset classes.
The Derivatives Team, focused on building and enhancing systems that support derivatives-based investment strategies for institutional and retail clients.
Both teams deliver scalable, cloud-based, and business-aligned solutions using modern tools and engineering practices.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Senior Software Engineer in Parametric’s Investment Systems Teams, you will design, develop, and support proprietary software that powers trading, portfolio management, compliance, and derivatives strategies. Whether on the Trading Platform or Derivatives team, you’ll collaborate closely with business stakeholders and engineers to translate complex requirements into scalable, high-quality solutions.
You’ll be expected to drive technology decisions, contribute across the full development stack, and mentor peers—all while building deep domain expertise in trading, compliance, and derivatives management.
What You’ll Do
Design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable software solutions across the full technology stack.
Build and integrate application components, including APIs, data persistence layers, and event-driven systems.
Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver flexible, business-oriented solutions.
Develop reusable code libraries, shared architectural patterns, and automation frameworks to accelerate development across teams.
Contribute to the modernization of legacy systems, including migrations to new persistence engines, cloud platforms, and architectures.
Write unit, integration, and functional tests to ensure software quality.
Support CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like GitLab, Terraform, and Docker.
Participate in design reviews, pair programming, and mentorship of junior team members.
Stay current with relevant technologies and contribute to team discussions on architectural decisions and tooling.
Requirements
What You Bring
5+ years of professional software development experience using Java.
Strong knowledge of Java fundamentals (interfaces, annotations, generics, reflection, etc.).
Experience with enterprise frameworks such as Spring Boot and Hibernate.
Solid understanding of relational databases and strong SQL skills; NoSQL experience is a plus.
Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, Kinesis, etc.).
Familiarity with containerization (Docker) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform).
Experience working with distributed systems and message queues such as Kafka or Kinesis.
Proficiency in building and managing CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub, etc.).
Familiarity with front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and REST/JSON APIs; ExtJS is a plus.
Comfortable working in Agile development environments and using version control tools like Git.
Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively across teams and with non-technical stakeholders.
Experience building high-throughput, low-latency, performance-sensitive systems.
A passion for continuous learning and mentoring others.
Financial services industry experience is a plus.
Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:
We are committed to maintaining the first-class service and high standard of excellence that have defined Morgan Stanley for over 89 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.
To learn more about our offices across the globe, please copy and paste https://www.morganstanley.com/about-us/global-offices into your browser.
Salary range for the position: $70,000 - 185,000/Yr. The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award. The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit's incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component. Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.
Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.
It is the policy of the Firm to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, sex stereotype, gender, gender identity or expression, transgender, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, pregnancy, veteran or military service status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying its workforce (M/F/Disability/Vet).
