The Listed Sales and Trading team is a diverse and inclusive technology team. We are responsible for designing, developing and maintaining high performance global electronic trading systems for Morgan Stanley. We work directly with our institutional clients (sales and trading desks, external clients) to help enable new businesses, improve products, and manage their risk.
Our massively scalable software and systems cover a wide-range of asset classes, from equities, derivatives, ETF, FX, commodities, bonds, swaps and cross-asset instruments. We support fully automated low-latency order handling up to highly complex manual and customized workflow required by some of our advanced users. We develop cutting-edge systems that are transforming our key business and enable transactions to occur in microseconds.
Our infrastructure is written in C++, Python, C#, and KDB. We are open-minded about our technology choices, leverage and contribute to open-source and cloud technologies.

Our work is always client focused, our engineers are problem-solvers and innovators. We are looking for an exceptional engineer to advance our capability in system deployment, availability, latency, performance, capacity management while also contributing to system functionality development and architecture transformation to next generation cloud-centric, leveraging micro-services architecture and aligned with our DevOps and Agile strategies. Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with a sense of ownership and drive is required.
The candidate will have great opportunity to learn from and influence across a range of businesses and asset classes while collaborating with a talented group of individuals, both locally and globally. Work directly with business facing specialists, infrastructure leads and stakeholders in different development teams in a high-pace environment. Excellent communication skills including experience speaking to technical and business audiences and working globally is preferred.

Responsibilities

The candidate will have the responsibility in advancing our site reliability capabilities and contributing to development of our high performance client-facing order management system, working to address business requests and driving platform evolution to leverage new technologies. A key part of the role is understanding business requirements and working with other groups to find the best solution to deliver a successful product.
Risk, control and productivity will also be key parts of the role. The candidate will contribute to improve our system architecture, DevOps, and software deployment model working with other developers in the department ensuring stability, capacity and performance of our systems.

Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, STEM or equivalent practical experience. Strong Computing fundamentals including a clear understanding of data structures, algorithms, software design and core programming concepts
- Hands-on experience in development of production-grade C++ applications, in any one of the following skills (Python, grpc, REST or Javascript) and willingness to learn new languages, and with basic Linux knowledge
- Experience in systems operation and management, understanding in site reliability engineer role and capabilities 
- At least 2 years' relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this role

Preferred Qualifications

- Understanding of open source server platforms (Redis, Mongodb, Kafka, ElasticSearch)
- Experience in configuration of open telemetry stack (grafana, prometheus, jaeger, loki)
- Broad Understanding of DevOps tools and technologies (Git, Jenkins, Ansible)
- Experience in financial instruments - Future, Stock, Options, ETF
- Prior experience with FIX protocol on electronic trading platform