About the Firm
Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. In Morgan Stanley, Technology works as a strategic partner with Morgan Stanley business units and the world's leading technology companies to redefine how we do business in ever more global, complex, and dynamic financial markets. Morgan Stanley has a competitive product offering in the Algo Trading space which differentiates us from our competitors. We are looking for a senior Algo developer in the Asia BXS Algo team, which develops and maintains the firm's benchmark algo plant. The candidate will work closely with business, quants, and counterparts in tech to design, develop, and rollout new algo and maintain existing algo.
About the Role
We are seeking a senior developer to join Morgan Stanley's algorithmic trading technology team in Asia. The ideal candidate will have strong C++, experience in large-scale real-time systems, deep knowledge of data structures and algorithms, problem-solving skills, and good communication skills. The candidate will be responsible for the analysis, design, implementation, testing, and deployment of strategic and tactical solutions for execution strategies, improving scalability, performance, and efficiency of the strategies. These roles are key to the algorithmic trading technology group. We are launching a global initiative to renovate our current benchmark trading platform, which offers a variety of algos to our clients and internal users, such as VWAP/TWAP/ArrivalPrice/Close etc. At a high level, the mission for this role over the next couple of years includes the development of high-performance electronic trading applications as part of a global strategic Algo/Electronic trading plant renovation; the evolution and adoption of core application infrastructure ranging from development and testing services, continuous delivery, to high performance, resilient, and scalable runtime services and libraries. This candidate will also work closely with our business partners in sales and trading, risk management, compliance, operations, research/quant, and other technology teams at Morgan Stanley.
Qualifications
- Strong C++ skills with proven experience writing production code
- Proficiency with Unix/Linux and multicast networking
- Knowledge and experience in agile software development practices
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience developing client-server, distributed, real-time, performance-critical, highly available, or large-scale systems
Skills Desired:
- Experience building low latency trading engines and algorithms in C++ using STL/Boost/Multithreading for a Unix/Linux platform
- KDB/Q experience
- Experience coding for a latency-sensitive trading environment is a strong plus
- Knowledge of financial technologies (e.g. FIX protocol) and business applications useful but not required
- Trading and financial modeling
- Delivery/Project management experience