We're seeking someone to join our FIXDMA team as a software engineer in Algo Super Dept. to design, develop, and support low-latency electronic trading solutions that enable clients to access to Morgan Stanley's electronic trading platforms and services.

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.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

What you'll do in the role:
- Contribute to the function through complex project tasks and initiatives.
- Interact regularly with team members and occasionally leadership on a range of topics.
- Design, develop, test, and deploy enhancements to the FIXDMA trading platform.
- Build and maintain FIX protocol connectivity, messaging workflows, and order routing solutions.
- Develop solutions for execution services connectivity, market access controls, and order management functions.
- Investigate and resolve production issues, ensuring platform stability, performance, and resiliency.
- Partner with business stakeholders to gather requirements and translate trading workflows into technical solutions.
- Participate in software design reviews, code reviews, and architecture discussions.
- Improve monitoring, observability, automation, and operational tooling to reduce support overhead.
- Collaborate with global development teams on strategic platform modernization initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, risk, and control requirements governing electronic trading platforms.

What you'll bring to the role:
- Ability to process information, translate into plans and present summaries to stakeholders.
- Experienced understanding of business line and discipline.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline.
- 3-7 years of software development experience in financial services or enterprise platforms.
- Strong programming skills in Java, Scala, C++, or a similar object-oriented language.
- Experience with distributed systems, messaging technologies, and high-performance application development.
- Understanding of SQL databases and data analysis techniques.
- Experience with Linux/Unix environments and software development lifecycle practices.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of FIX Protocol, electronic trading, market structure, and order lifecycles.
- Experience with OMS, EMS, DMA, algorithmic trading, or exchange connectivity platforms.
- Familiarity with Kafka, distributed event-driven architectures, and cloud-native technologies.
- Experience supporting production trading systems with strict availability and performance requirements.
- Understanding of regulatory requirements applicable to electronic trading environments.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years.  Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Morgan Stanley is an equal opportunity employer committed to building and maintaining a workforce that is diverse in experience and background.  Our recruiting efforts reflect our strong commitment to a culture of inclusion, where individuals are hired, developed, and advanced based on their skills and talents.

Our workforce reflects a broad cross-section of the global communities in which we operate, bringing a variety of backgrounds, talents, perspectives, and experiences.

For more information, please visit: https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/eeo.