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Software Engineer - Backend

Morgan Stanley New York, NY

New York, NY

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$120k - $170k/yr Full time Backend Developer API APIs

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Job Description

Morgan Stanley is hiring a Director-level backend engineer to design, build, and operate production-grade services. If you have 4+ years of hands-on experience, this role focuses on backend services and APIs, distributed systems, and production resilience using Java and Python. You will work onsite in New York, NY with a culture that values depth over buzzwords and gives room to think.

Why join us

Work on systems with real impact
Engineering culture that values depth over buzzwords
Opportunity to grow into system design and end-to-end ownership
Smart peers working on real problems, with room to reason
Open environment where everyone can express their views and make significant contributions

Responsibilities

Design and build new backend services and APIs from scratch
Work on distributed systems with scalability, latency, and reliability constraints
Make trade-offs across performance, consistency, and complexity
Write clean, maintainable, testable code others enjoy working with
Own services end-to-end: design, build, deploy, and operate
Debug production issues and improve system resilience over time

Required qualifications

Strong proficiency in Java and Python for backend engineering
Solid understanding of HTTP fundamentals
Strong grasp of object-oriented design, clean class modeling, and design patterns for multi-threaded and event-driven systems
Good command of data structures and collections, including when to use them
Hands-on experience with multi-threaded and event-driven systems
Awareness of memory usage, time, and space complexity
Experience with dependency injection and lifecycle management
Understanding of AOP concepts including advice, pointcuts, and cross-cutting concerns
Experience with transaction management
Familiarity with connection pools and resource management
Experience designing read and write APIs for stability, scalability, and performance
Exposure to real-world event-driven systems, pub-sub patterns, and fault tolerance
Familiarity with caching strategies (local and distributed)
Practical understanding of logging, monitoring, and observability
Working knowledge of security fundamentals: authentication, authorization, and encryption
Comfort reasoning through problems and communicating your approach
Focus on clarity, correctness, and simplicity, with the ability to explain design choices
Take ownership and follow issues through to resolution
4+ years of relevant experience

Nice to have

Practical understanding of batch processing and data pipelines
Experience with BDD testing frameworks and tools

Interview process

Hands-on, real-world problem discussions
No tell me about yourself or resume walkthroughs
Interactive conversations focused on how you think, design, and reason

Compensation: USD 120,000 - 170,000 per year.

Location: New York, NY (onsite).

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