Senior Software Engineer (Fixed Income Risk System)

London, United KingdomPosted Jul 6, 2026
Our Insights Personal Finance Market Trends Technology & Disruption Sustainability Diversity & Inclusion What We Do Wealth Management Investment Banking & Capital Markets Sales & Trading Research Investment Management Morgan Stanley at Work Sustainable Investing Inclusive Innovation About Us Core Values Leadership History Locations Diversity Sustainability Giving Back Technology Careers Students & Graduates Experienced Professionals LanguageEnglishFrench Single PositionView All JobsHybridSenior Software Engineer (Fixed Income Risk System)London, United Kingdom No longer accepting applications.Employment TypeFull timeJob LevelVice PresidentYou are required to review the Firm’s Mobility Guidelines on careerhub/ prior to submitting your application to ensure you understand and abide by your obligations under the Firm policy.JOB LEVELVice PresidentTIERP4We are currently seeking a Senior Developer within Fixed Income Derivatives Technology group. Our team works closely with Interest Rates Sales & Trading and Quantitative Strategists team to develop next generation risk and trading systems to achieve their business goals.A successful candidate would work on one of the world’s largest Scala projects and gain exposure to every aspect of Interest Rates Derivative trading. We balance between strategic system renovation projects and day-to-day business coverage based on each team member’s preference and expertise.In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Lead Software Engineer position at Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for developing and maintaining software solutions that support business needs.Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.What you'll do in the role:Communicate regularly with product leads across the technology organization and discuss opportunities for improvement to existing and future technology solutions.Develop large-scale distributed systems to compute and report intra-day and eod-of-day risks, PnL (Profit and Loss) and market scenarios to senior management, trading desks, controllers, and market risk department.Greenfield project to redesign pricing and workflow applications for sales and traders to keep ahead of the market.Greenfield project to redesign Front to Back risk scenario infrastructure for Fundamental Review of the Trading Book.Greenfield project to revamp the market data and marking system in strategic cross-asset platform.Design APIs so that the pricing and risk analytics can be accessed programmatically by other internal systems and processes.Provide IT coverage for Macro business in EMEA, with day-to-day interaction with sales/trading, desk strategies, FID COOs, operations, controllers, and market risk department.What you'll bring to the role: Strong software engineering, analytical and problem-solving skillsExperience in distributed computing or cloud computing, Java/Scala development experience and performance tuningUnderstand DevOps and Continuous Development PrinciplesStrong interest in learning about the financial marketsStrong academic record with Bachelor's level or above in a computational field like Computer Science, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, or a related discipline or equivalent experience.At least 6 years' relevant experience would generally be expected to find the skills required for this rolePreferred Full Stack development; programming experience in HTML5/AngularJS, C++ and APL (Array-Programming Language) like KDB/Q or A+ ( http://www.aplusdev.org )Preferred knowledge of fixed income market, financial...

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