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Lead Java Software Engineer - Backend (VP)

at Morgan Stanley

📍 New York, New York, United States of America Unknown 💰 $210K – $210K USD / year Posted April 15, 2026
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Position Details

Salary $210K – $210K USD / year
Type Full-Time
Experience lead
Exp. Years Not specified
Education Not specified
Category Software Engineering

About this role

Lead backend software engineering for securities settlements technology at the Vice President level. You will define system architecture, write and review scalable production code, and guide DevOps practices to ensure observability, availability, and resiliency for a distributed settlement platform.

Key Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with product owners and business analysts to clarify requirements, milestones, and backlog
  • Drive system architecture and design
  • Write clean, performant, scalable, testable, and reusable code
  • Review pull requests and mentor junior developers on design, coding, and testing
  • Guide DevOps practices to enhance observability, availability, and resiliency; act as end-to-end production owner

Technical Overview

The role focuses on building a distributed settlement platform for security settlements across markets, handling very high trade volumes. The environment is agile, with strong emphasis on system architecture, code quality (clean/performance/scalability/testability), and DevOps practices in production—preferably on Azure and other public cloud architectures.

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a Lead Software Engineer at a Vice President level who has led teams delivering large-scale distributed applications in an agile environment. They have strong system architecture skills, write performant/scalable/testable code, and drive DevOps practices with a focus on observability, availability, and resiliency—preferably with Azure and cloud architecture exposure.

Must-Have Skills

Lead Software Engineering position at Vice President levelwrite cleanperformantscalabletestableand reusable codereview pull requestsguide more junior developersguide the team to follow the best DevOps practicesenhance observabilityavailabilityand resiliencyact as an end-to-end owner ensuring the system is developedtesteddeployed as planned and is performing as expected in production environmentsdrive the definition of system architecture and designwork in an agile environmentcloud architectures & Public Cloud offerings exposuretrack record of leading a team and delivering large-scale distributed applications

Nice-to-Have Skills

exposure to Azure/Cloud

Tools & Platforms

AzureCloud

Required Skills

system architectureagilebacklogmilestonesdistributed settlement platformsecurity settlementswriting clean codeperformant codescalable codetestable codereusable codecode reviewpull requestsdevops practicesobservabilityavailabilityresiliencyproduction environmentsAzurecloud architecturespublic cloudend-to-end ownershipteam leadership

Hard Skills

Lead Software Engineeringdistributed settlement platformsecurity settlementssystem architecturebackend engineeringwriting clean codeperformant codescalable codetestable codereusable codecode reviewpull request reviewDevOps practicesobservabilityavailabilityresiliencyproduction environmentsagilebacklogmilestoneslarge-scale distributed applicationscloud architecturesAzureCloud

Soft Skills

leadershipmanaging a teamend-to-end ownershipcollaboration with product ownerscollaboration with business analystscollaboration with usersmentoring junior developersguiding engineering practicescross-team communication

Industry & Role

Industry Banking
Job Function Lead backend engineering for a secure distributed securities settlement platform
Role Subtype Backend Engineer
Tech Domains Azure, DevOps & SRE

Keywords for Your Resume

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Deal Breakers

Must demonstrate a track record of leading a team and delivering large-scale distributed applications, Must have exposure to cloud architectures and Public Cloud offerings (preferably Azure)

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