Morgan Stanley
Java Developer (Trading Systems)
Morgan Stanley, New York, New York, us, 10261
Company Profile
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.
Technology
Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley's sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modeling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses—and to our own.
Institutional Securities Technology (IST)
Institutional Securities Technology (IST) is part of Technology. This group is responsible for developing enterprise applications for a diverse set of businesses including Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Investment Banking, Research, and Global Capital Markets. In addition, IST provides technology solutions for client-aligned groups and company-wide divisions, such as Finance and Operations, post-trade functions within the Institutional Securities Group and standardized data and enterprise-wide services to provide leverage to the Firm's businesses.
Team Profile:
This is a small team in Morgan Stanley Algorithmic Trading Services with trading floor presence in New York, London, and Hong Kong. The team works closely with business to optimize execution costs for clients by utilizing systematic, evidence-based approaches, generating ideas, running experiments to verify them, and then put them in action. Team members come from varied backgrounds of finance, econometrics, statistics, mathematics, computer science and data analysis, with many versed in multiple areas.
Role Overview:
This position is for a trading systems engineer, primarily coding in Java and doing data analysis in KDB/Jupyter notebook. The candidate will design, develop, test, and deploy new strategies and features in production taking responsibility for full software lifecycle. They will monitor trades and do historical analysis for performance improvements and reducing execution costs. They will interact with business extensively, discussing ideas, explaining trading behavior and seeing direct impact of their improvements in production. The work involves a mix of quantitative analysis, idea generation and development of trading algos making it challenging as well as interesting.
Required Skills:
• Electronic Trading system/Algorithmic Trading system experience • Excellent communication and problem solving skills • Strong technical background in software development • Experience developing Java (preferred) trading applications • Scripting Perl/Python
Desired Skills:
•Understanding of US markets/Interest in trading •KDB/Jupyter Notebook/Data analysis •Knowledge of FIX protocol Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $100,000 and $150,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. As a market leader, the talent and passion of our people is critical to our success. Together, we share a common set of values rooted in integrity, excellence and strong team ethic. Morgan Stanley can provide a superior foundation for building a professional career - a place for people to learn, to achieve and grow. A philosophy that balances personal lifestyles, perspectives and needs is an important part of our culture.
Technology
Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley's sizeable investment in technology results in quantitative trading systems, cutting-edge modeling and simulation software, comprehensive risk and security systems, and robust client-relationship capabilities, plus the worldwide infrastructure that forms the backbone of these systems and tools. Our insights, our applications and infrastructure give a competitive edge to clients' businesses—and to our own.
Institutional Securities Technology (IST)
Institutional Securities Technology (IST) is part of Technology. This group is responsible for developing enterprise applications for a diverse set of businesses including Fixed Income, Equities, Commodities, Investment Banking, Research, and Global Capital Markets. In addition, IST provides technology solutions for client-aligned groups and company-wide divisions, such as Finance and Operations, post-trade functions within the Institutional Securities Group and standardized data and enterprise-wide services to provide leverage to the Firm's businesses.
Team Profile:
This is a small team in Morgan Stanley Algorithmic Trading Services with trading floor presence in New York, London, and Hong Kong. The team works closely with business to optimize execution costs for clients by utilizing systematic, evidence-based approaches, generating ideas, running experiments to verify them, and then put them in action. Team members come from varied backgrounds of finance, econometrics, statistics, mathematics, computer science and data analysis, with many versed in multiple areas.
Role Overview:
This position is for a trading systems engineer, primarily coding in Java and doing data analysis in KDB/Jupyter notebook. The candidate will design, develop, test, and deploy new strategies and features in production taking responsibility for full software lifecycle. They will monitor trades and do historical analysis for performance improvements and reducing execution costs. They will interact with business extensively, discussing ideas, explaining trading behavior and seeing direct impact of their improvements in production. The work involves a mix of quantitative analysis, idea generation and development of trading algos making it challenging as well as interesting.
Required Skills:
• Electronic Trading system/Algorithmic Trading system experience • Excellent communication and problem solving skills • Strong technical background in software development • Experience developing Java (preferred) trading applications • Scripting Perl/Python
Desired Skills:
•Understanding of US markets/Interest in trading •KDB/Jupyter Notebook/Data analysis •Knowledge of FIX protocol Expected base pay rates for the role will be between $100,000 and $150,000 per year at the commencement of employment. However, base pay if hired will be determined on an individualized basis and is only part of the total compensation package, which, depending on the position, may also include commission earnings, incentive compensation, discretionary bonuses, other short and long-term incentive packages, and other Morgan Stanley sponsored benefit programs