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# Senior Software Engineer- Structured Credit & Financing Technology

- **Company:** Morgan Stanley
- **Location:** New York, NY, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $155,000.0 - $215,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Server Applications, Automation of Tests, C Sharp (Programming Language), C++ (Programming Language), Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Performance Tuning, Software Maintenance, Regression Testing, Scala (Programming Language), Service-Oriented Architecture, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Backend, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Tools for Reporting, Code Restructuring, Programming Languages
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/usa3ed56fbab9cfc0aade08e6a91a237c3/eaa

## About the Role

Be a strong team player who shares knowledge, improves runbooks, supports on-call rotation, and helps raise the capability of junior team members.
Demonstrate ownership, integrity, collaboration and a continuous improvement mindset.
What you'll bring to the role:
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.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose complex issues under time pressure.
Experience working across the full software development lifecycle, from requirements analysis and design through implementation, testing, deployment and production support.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to work directly with business users and explain technical topics clearly.
Self-motivated, accountable and comfortable operating with limited supervision.
Strong team player with a collaborative working style.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience in front-office technology, trading tools, risk systems, pricing platforms, or financial workflow automation.
Knowledge of Fixed Income, Repo, TRS, Structured Note, CDS/CDS Index/CDS Index Option/CDS Index Tranche, Repacks, PB.
Experience with Genesis or similar front-office trading platforms.
Experience with risk/PnL, margin, collateral, settlement, curve/marking, trade booking, workflow or reporting systems.
Experience improving stability of business-critical applications through refactoring, automated testing, monitoring, performance tuning and production hygiene.
Experience with distributed computing, grid/cloud platforms, service integration, APIs and data-driven workflows.
Experience with modern DevOps and continuous delivery practices.
Experience mentoring junior developers or coordinating delivery across a global team.

## Description

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Senior Software Engineering position at the Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.
Morgan Stanley is an industry leader in financial services, known for mobilizing capital to help governments, corporations, institutions, and individuals around the world achieve their financial goals.
Interested in joining a team that's eager to create, innovate and make an impact on the world? Read on.
We are seeking a hands-on Vice President level Software Engineer to join the Structured Credit & Financing Technology team in New York. The role will provide intraday desk-facing coverage for Credit Repo, Credit Exotics and related Genesis trading tools, while also delivering strategic stability and platform enhancements across Structured Credit & Financing workflows. The candidate will partner closely with traders, structurers, strats, operations, controllers, market risk and global technology teams to support daily business needs, resolve production issues, and build robust solutions across trade booking, risk/PnL, margin, settlement, reporting and workflow automation. The ideal candidate is a strong hands-on developer with excellent communication skills, strong ownership, and the ability to operate effectively in a global team supporting a fast-moving front-office business.
What you'll do in the role:
Intraday desk coverage and production ownership
Provide intraday coverage for Structured Credit & Financing trading tools, with primary focus on Credit Repo, Credit Exotics Genesis-based workflows.
Act as a senior technology contact for traders and business users during the London trading day.
Triage, investigate and resolve production issues across trading, booking, pricing/risk, margin, workflow and reporting tools.
Partner with global technology teams, strats, production management teams to ensure timely resolution of business-impacting issues.
Own follow-through from incident analysis to permanent remediation, including code changes, monitoring improvements, regression tests and documentation.
Hands-on engineering and stability uplift
Design, develop and maintain software across the Structured Credit & Financing technology stack.
Improve system stability, resilience and performance across Genesis trading tools and related backend services.
Refactor fragile or high-risk components to reduce design dependencies, improve supportability and enable faster delivery.
Build stronger automated test coverage, release validation, monitoring and alerting to reduce production incidents.
Contribute to performance tuning, reliability improvements and modernization of existing tools and infrastructure.
Work across UI, service, data and integration layers where needed, while maintaining strong engineering standards.
Business delivery and strategic platform enhancement
Deliver enhancements for Credit Repo, Exotics, TRS, PB related workflows.
Support improvements in trade booking, position visibility, risk/PnL, margin, settlement, collateral, curve/marking processes and reporting.
Partner with business users to turn complex requirements into practical, robust technology solutions.
Help integrate financial models, analytics and risk calculations into scalable trading and risk platforms.
Contribute to strategic platform adoption, including Genesis workflow expansion, APIs, automation and migration away from legacy tooling where appropriate.
Communication, collaboration and team culture
Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including traders, structurers, operations, controllers, risk and senior technology managers.
Explain technical issues, business impact, remediation options and delivery trade-offs in a concise and transparent way.
Work effectively in a global team across London, Hong Kong, New York, Montreal and India.


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