Vice President, Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley
New York, NY
$214,000from the description
Jun 28, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A software engineering role on the Payments Technology team, focused on building and maintaining payment and funding capabilities. Day-to-day work spans the full development lifecycle — from design through deployment — using Java on the server side, Angular or React on the front end, and DB2/SQL Server for data. The role also involves event-driven architecture, cloud development, and distributed systems, and suits an experienced engineer with a background in financial markets.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
Posted 2 times — it's one opening, so apply once.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 1,350 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 810–2,950
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $135,980 (middle half $105,210–$171,980). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The job title is 'Vice President, Software Engineer' — VP is a common internal band at Morgan Stanley for senior individual contributors, not a people-management role; the posting describes hands-on software development work, so 15-1252 (Software Developers) is the correct SOC rather than 11-3021.
The advertised title carries no standard seniority level word (VP is a firm-internal band, not a career-ladder modifier like Senior/Staff/Principal), so the title states no level; the 8-year requirement and scope support Senior.
The posted base pay range is a single point ($214,000–$214,000/year); Morgan Stanley notes that total compensation may include bonuses and incentive packages beyond base.
The JD states 'Telecommuting permitted within commuting distance up to 4 days per week,' implying a New York, NY anchor office. The caller has overridden this to fully remote with a national candidate pool, so no metro is set.
Cloud software development and distributed/web services experience are listed as 8-year requirements but name no specific platform or tool; they are omitted from the skills list as they do not identify a concrete named technology.
Financial markets domain knowledge is listed as an 8-year requirement but is a domain/soft skill rather than a named technology; it is omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
'Angular or React' appears twice in the requirements — once as a front-end framework requirement and once as a standalone bullet. Both are captured in a single Angular/React skill entry with React as an alternative.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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