Vice President, Lead Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley
Jersey City, NJ
$200,000–$210,000from the description
Jun 30, 2026
Jersey City, NJ
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A VP-level engineering role focused on building and maintaining equity trading platforms, covering the full development lifecycle from design through delivery. The work involves constructing microservices-based, cloud-aware applications using a broad Java ecosystem stack — including Spring Boot, Kafka, ActiveMQ, and AWS — with an emphasis on CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. Suits an experienced software engineer with deep backend and integration tooling expertise.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 920–6,700
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.
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 (5)
The posting's physical location is Jersey City, NJ with telecommuting permitted up to 2 days per week — this is a hybrid role, not fully remote. The caller has instructed that it be treated as fully remote with a national candidate pool; metro has been left blank accordingly.
The title 'Vice President, Lead Software Engineer' is a Morgan Stanley internal band; the role is classified as Senior (advertised) based on the VP/Lead framing, supported by the 5-year experience requirement and scope of ownership.
All 25 skills are listed as hard requirements under the 'What you'll bring to the role' / 'Requires' section with an explicit 5-year experience demand for each. The breadth of this list is unusually wide but faithfully reflects the JD's stated requirements.
The salary range ($200,000–$210,000/yr) is stated explicitly and excludes any discretionary bonus or incentive compensation, which the JD notes separately as possible additional compensation.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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