Morgan Stanley · 5 hours ago
Lead Software Engineer - Crypto - Vice President
Menlo Park, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$150K/yr - $210K/yr
10+ years expMorgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm that provides innovative technology solutions for Core Brokerage within its WM Technology Division. The role involves leading a technical team to design and implement reliable products while driving product development and collaborating closely with product management and development teams.
Asset ManagementFinanceFinancial ServicesLending
Responsibilities
Lead a technical team to design and implement highly reliable, scale-able, extensible, maintainable, global, and operable products and platforms
Draft and review architectural diagrams, interface specifications, class structures, and other design documents
Build systems that balance resources, constraints, requirements, and complexity
Present opportunities with cost/benefit analysis to leadership in order to shape decisions regarding architectural strategy
Evangelize technologies, solutions, and best practices developed with the organization
Develop department-wide technical perspectives, standards, solutions, and strategies that resolve significant product or organizational pain-points
Participate in a network of principal engineers to share ideas, practices, and experiences
Work closely with product management and development teams
You must enjoy challenging engineering problems. We are looking for someone who can solve complex issues
We value principal engineers who do enough hands-on implementation work to keep current with technology trends inside and outside the company
Lead and mentor other back-end engineers
Qualification
Required
Minimum of 10 years of software development experience
Bachelor degree in Computer Science or a related field
Strong Proficiency with either Go or Java/J2EE
Preferred
Expert in software development domain and principles, including design patterns, data structures, continuous integration and deployment architecture
Solid experience in working with either Golang or Java. Knowledge in multiple languages like GO, Java, C++, Javascript will be a plus
Knowledge on Spring, Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate and C/C++, batch scripts - perl, ksh
Good understanding of Web Services protocols such as REST, SOAP, IDL, gRPC and API design for extensibility and portability
Experience writing SQL queries for Sybase / Oracle or another Relational Database is required
Well versed with OOD and SOA principles
Experience of working in UNIX environment. Knowledge of perl and UNIX based shell scripts is required
Working knowledge of cloud, service mesh and containers
Team player possessing strong analytical, problem solving and communication skills
Experience with SCRUM, Agile and iterative approaches a plus
Creative thinker, self-starter, able to work on multiple projects simultaneously
Benefits
Commission earnings
Incentive compensation
Discretionary bonuses
Other short and long-term incentive packages
Other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs
Company
Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a financial services company that offers securities, asset management, and credit services.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown1997-02-05IPO
Leadership Team
James Gorman
Chairman and CEO
Ted Pick
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
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