Senior Software Engineer - Parametric (Java / AWS)

About Parametric

Parametric is part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, the asset management division of Morgan Stanley. We partner with advisors, institutions, and consultants to build portfolios focused on what's important to them and their clients. A leader in custom solutions for more than 30 years, we help investors access efficient market exposures, solve implementation challenges, and design multi-asset portfolios that respond to their evolving needs. We also offer systematic alpha and alternative strategies to complement clients' core holdings.

About Parametric Technology

We design and build financial software for Parametric’s proprietary investment systems technologies for the entire account lifecycle across Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives. We are technology-driven and building for scale and resilience, enabling our business to support clients with improved efficiency and reduced operational risk.

About The Team

Parametric’s Investment Systems Team designs and builds the proprietary technology platforms that support our strategies. We are hiring Senior Software Engineers to join two core teams in our Minneapolis (Edina) office:

• Derivatives Team: Develops and supports technology solutions for derivatives-based strategies across multiple asset classes for institutional and retail clients.
• Operations Technology Team: Builds proprietary software for middle and back-office operations, including reconciliation, accounting, and settlements systems, focusing on scalable, resilient solutions that reduce operational risk.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement robust, scalable, and maintainable software solutions across the full technology stack.
• Build and integrate application components, including APIs, data persistence layers, and event-driven systems.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver flexible, business-oriented solutions.
• Develop reusable code libraries, shared architectural patterns, and automation frameworks to accelerate development across teams.
• Contribute to the modernization of legacy systems, including migrations to new persistence engines, cloud platforms, and architectures.
• Write unit, integration, and functional tests to ensure software quality.
• Support CI/CD practices and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using tools like GitLab, Terraform, and Docker.
• Participate in design reviews, pair programming, and mentorship of junior team members.
• Stay current with relevant technologies and contribute to team discussions on architectural decisions and tooling.

What You Bring

• 5+ years of hands-on professional software development experience using Java.
• Strong understanding of language features (interfaces, generics, annotations, reflection, closures, etc.).
• Practical knowledge of major open-source projects (Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate).
• Familiarity with containers (Docker).
• Experience with message-driven and event-driven architectures using ActiveMQ and Kafka.
• Proven experience with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, S3, Fargate, Aurora, and Lambda.
• Experience building highly interactive web UIs (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, REST, JSON; ExtJS a plus).
• Test-driven development experience (JUnit, test mocking).
• Strong knowledge of RDBMS and SQL.
• Familiarity with version control (Git), CI/CD tools (Gradle, GitLab), and agile methodologies.
• Deep understanding of SOA, AOP, and design patterns (MVC, DAO, Observer).
• Experience with major application servers (Tomcat).
• Effective communication skills with both technical and business stakeholders.

What You Can Expect From Morgan Stanley

• Salary range for the position: $78,000 - 185,000/Yr.
• The successful candidate may be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive compensation award.
• The successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the relevant business unit's incentive compensation plan, which also may include a discretionary bonus component.
• Morgan Stanley offers a full spectrum of benefits, including Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Day Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Disability and Other Insurance Plans, Paid Time Off (including Sick Leave consistent with state and local law, Parental Leave and 20 Vacation Days annually), 10 Paid Holidays, 401(k), and Short/Long Term Disability, in addition to other special perks reserved for our employees.