[Remote] Director, Lead Software Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment, and wealth management services. The Director, Lead Software Engineer will analyze, design, develop, and test software applications to support the FX business, collaborating with global teams and continuously improving the quality of trading software.


Responsibilities

  • Analyze, design, develop and test server-side services and software applications to support the FX business
  • Collaborate with global colleagues in FX technology team and other technology teams to deliver integrated solutions
  • Provide support for traders, salespeople, controllers and operations with software application and infrastructure questions and issues
  • Conduct in-depth software analyses of FX business and projects
  • Develop various new FX flow and features within projects
  • Coordinate requirements, design, development and delivery of software products within global team
  • Continuously improve the quality of FX trading software system and codebase

Skills

  • Requires a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
  • Requires five (5) years of experience in the position offered or five (5) years a Software Developer, Programmer Analyst, or a related role
  • Requires five (5) years of experience with the following skills: The full Software Development Lifecycle using Linux; agile development on enterprise scale complex projects; Rational databases including Sybase or DB2; Writing complex SQL queries; GIT; JIRA; Jenkins; and Sonar
  • Requires four (4) years of experience with the following skills: System architecture; and Core Java development including Object Oriented programming, Treading, Data Structure, Design pattern, Algorithms, Spring, REST and SOAP API, Microservices, Junit, Mockito, MQ, XML, TDD and SOLID
  • Requires two (2) years of experience with the following skills: Developing high throughput transaction and event processing systems; Python, C, Shell scripting, JSON, AutoSys, Train, Splunk, and Load Balance; Build tools including Maven, Gradle, Ivy and YAML; Trading technologies and Foreign Exchange trading system, including FIX and FIXML protocol, FX Exchange API and STP; and Working in a trading environment with cross regional teams

Benefits

  • Commission earnings
  • Incentive compensation
  • Discretionary bonuses
  • Other short and long-term incentive packages
  • Other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs

Company Overview

  • Morgan Stanley is a financial services institution that delivers capital management, investment banking, and advisory solutions. It was founded in 1935, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.morganstanley.com.

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