Associate Software Engineer - Parametric

ABOUT MORGAN STANLEY
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, wealth management and investment management services. With offices in more than 41 countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For further information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www.morganstanley.com.

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.

This role is part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.

ABOUT THE TEAM
The Equity Investments and Client Activities team at Parametric:

• We are building financial software that solves some of the world's most complex financial opportunities. This includes building solutions to provide customized direct index exposure while making tax sensitive asset selection to improve overall after-tax portfolio returns.
• We design and build financial software responsible for the account life cycle that starts with the onboarding of accounts, managing all client activities and investment instructions, and finally managing equity investment accounts as scale.

ABOUT THE ROLE
We are looking for individuals that have a strong curiosity and passion for learning new things, while continuously challenges oneself to build things better and more scalable.

The Associate Software Engineer on the Equity Investments and Client Activities team will be responsible for design, development, and integration of technology solutions to support all aspects of our equity investments platform. In this role, the Associate Software Engineer will leverage new and existing technologies to build and maintain services that scale the platform, including on-prem systems and cloud native AWS micro services.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITES

• Design and develop proprietary solutions for the Equity Direct Indexing portfolio management teams.
• Design, develop, and maintain services and API to support various business needs.
• Leverage scalable and distributed computing principles to build the next generation of services.
• Ensures that software solutions remain integrated, efficient, and appropriate for a highly regulated industry.
• Create unit/integration/functional/performance tests.
• Conduct code reviews of other developers.
• Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS
SKILL SET
Required Experience: 0-3 years
Skill set: Software design / Dev/ Java / J2EE

PRIMARY SKILLS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related area of study preferred
• Strong aptitude for highly efficient data structures and algorithms
• Experience with hands-on Java/J2EE software design and development experience
• Cloud native development experience a plus: AWS is preferred, but not required
• A creative, self-confident self-motivator with a can do spirit
• Passionate, forward thinking, and creative individual with high ethical standards and integrity
• Effective communication skills with business users and other developers

Good to Have Skills

• Good to have knowledge of relational databases and SQL
• Good to have knowledge of NoSQL database engines such as DynamoDB, Redis, Cassandra, or MongoDB
• Exposure to frontend technologies, such as, ReactJS or AngularJS is a plus.

Parametric believes each member of our organization makes a significant contribution to our success. That contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline primary duties and qualifications. It is our expectation that every member of our team will offer his/her/their services wherever and whenever necessary to ensure the success of our client services.