Vice President, Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley
New York, NY
$190,000–$210,000from the description
Jun 30, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior engineering role focused on building and evolving a large-scale risk management platform for hedge fund and institutional clients. Day-to-day work spans designing distributed, high-performance systems that compute and report risk metrics across equities, fixed income, and derivatives, integrating simulation engines for stress testing and what-if scenarios. Suits engineers with deep Java/Python and distributed systems experience who also have financial risk domain knowledge, such as VaR and trade lifecycle workflows.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 18,000 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 5,300–27,000
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 $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). 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 (7)
The job title is 'Vice President, Software Engineer' — VP is a common internal band at Morgan Stanley (roughly equivalent to Senior IC), not a people-management title; the role is hands-on engineering with mentorship duties but no explicit direct-report or budget ownership, so it is classified as Senior rather than a management SOC.
The posting is located in New York, NY (telecommuting up to 1 day/week), but the caller has declared this a fully-remote role; metro and state have been left blank accordingly.
The 5-year distributed-systems / low-latency / real-time streaming / performance-tuning requirement is a single grouped gate in the JD; the named tools (Java, Python, Spring Boot, SQL, NoSQL, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka) are extracted individually as required skills, each carrying the stated 5-year minimum.
AWS is listed as 'AWS or Azure' for cloud-native deployments (3 years required); Azure is captured as an alternative.
PV01 (Price Value of 01) and trade lifecycle workflows in equities, fixed income, and derivatives are domain-knowledge requirements rather than named technologies or tools, so they are omitted from the skills list per extraction rules.
The Bachelor's degree requirement explicitly names Data Science, Computer Science, or Engineering — no 'or equivalent experience' language is present, so the degree requirement is set to Bachelors.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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