Associate, Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley
Alpharetta, GA
$130,000from the description
Jun 30, 2026
Alpharetta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role involves building and maintaining software applications for a Capital Markets platform, covering the full development lifecycle from design and technical specifications through to testing and ongoing support. The work includes writing individual modules as part of larger projects, identifying defects, and upholding engineering standards. It suits someone with a master's degree and hands-on experience across multiple languages, frameworks, cloud platforms, and CI/CD tooling.
Mid level · 2+ years · Remote · Master's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,700 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 1,150–4,050
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
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 (6)
The job title is 'Associate, Software Engineer' — Morgan Stanley's 'Associate' is a corporate grade, not a seniority descriptor in the engineering-ladder sense; the posting carries no Junior/Mid/Senior modifier, so the title states no level.
The role is physically located in Alpharetta, GA (telecommuting up to 2 days/week per the JD), but the caller has declared this a fully-remote role; metro and state have been left blank per that instruction.
The JD lists all skills under a single hard-requirements block with explicit '2 years of experience with the following skills' language, so every named technology is treated as a hard gate. In practice, it is highly unlikely any single candidate holds 2 years of hands-on experience with all 26 listed tools simultaneously — this reads as a broad enumeration of the team's full stack rather than a strict per-tool gate, but the schema requires faithfully reflecting the JD's stated requirements.
The compensation range is stated as $130,000–$130,000/year (a fixed point, not a range), which is unusual; this is reported exactly as written.
A Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field is explicitly required with no 'or equivalent experience' escape clause.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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