Company: Morgan Stanley
Location: London
Job Description:
Overview
In this Lead Software Engineering role, you will design, build and support low-latency, high-volume algorithmic trading systems in Java, collaborating with trading, quant and IT teams. You’ll enhance trading engines, tools and the data/signals that drive market-making and hedging strategies. You’ll work through the full SDLC, delivering scalable solutions that meet business needs in a fast-moving environment. This is a chance to influence architecture and toolsets while contributing to Morgan Stanley’s trading platform and competitive edge.
Pay / Benefits
- attractive employee benefits
- flexible working opportunities
- diversity and inclusion
- supportive culture
- opportunity to move across the business
- global exposure
Responsibilities
- Build and enhance trading strategies and engines using core Java
- Collaborate with trading, quant and IT teams to advance the platform
- Develop and deploy automated trading systems and analytics tools
- Improve execution performance and data/signal generation
- Participate in the full software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment
- Maintain low-latency, scalable, and resilient systems
- Communicate opportunities for improvement to product leads
Key requirements
- Core Java (20+) knowledge in on-prem UNIX/Linux environments
- Experience with automated trading systems, market-making and hedging in liquid markets
- Ability to translate business and technical requirements into engineered solutions
- Logical problem solving and strong analytical skills
- Strong communication and cross-functional teamwork
- Git/Stash and Jenkins experience
- Unit testing with frameworks such as JUnit
- Good Linux fundamentals
- Willingness to learn the businesses supported by the applications
- Strong communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Problem solving orientation
- Core Java
- UNIX/Linux
- Automated trading systems
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Posted: October 1st, 2026