Java Developer - Associate

Company Profile

At Morgan Stanley, we advise, originate trade, manage, and distribute capital for governments, institutions, and individuals, and always do so with a standard of excellence. We are a leading global financial services firm that conducts its business through three principal business segments—Institutional Securities, Wealth Management (WM), and Investment Management.

The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries. Our WM business is one of the largest in the world with more than $2 trillion in client assets, $73 billion in lending balances, and nearly 16,000 Financial Advisors in 600+ offices across the U.S. Our Financial Advisors focus on delivering timely, customized solutions and services that help clients meet their financial and life goals.

Our offering includes brokerage and investment advisory services, financial and wealth planning, access to credit and lending, cash management, annuities and insurance, and retirement services.

Wealth Management Product Technology (WMPT) is a dynamic and fast‑paced area within the Firm's WM Technology Division. We are responsible for creating innovative technology solutions for the Private Banking Group (PBG), one of the strategic growth areas of the Firm, providing cash management and lending products and services to our WM clients. This includes state‑of‑the‑art technology for a nationwide network of Private Bankers and product specialists who work with Financial Advisors to provide access to products and services such as online banking, cards, deposit products, residential mortgages, securities‑based loans, and tailored lending.

If you are an exceptional individual who is interested in solving complex problems and building sophisticated solutions in a dynamic team environment, WMPT is the place for you.

As part of the strategy to design and implement industry leading applications, the Morgan Stanley WMPT team is looking for a Java developer with good experience on backend services to join a technologically advanced team. The candidate must have expertise in leading design and development of multi‑tiered Java EE‑style applications. The candidate should be fluent in Spring, databases, and database interface layers and associated Java development tools.

The candidate will interface on a regular basis with other teams including other internal IT teams across Wealth Management, BA team, QA team, and the global development team. To be successful, the role requires the individual to understand the banking technology landscape, and to offer creative solutions that integrate current capabilities, vendor capabilities, proprietary system builds, and the ability to adapt to changing business requirements.

• Work in an Agile Squad as a full‑stack developer
• Review code and contribute to design discussions.
• Ensure high quality of deliverables while enforcing development best practices.
• Adhere to application development guidelines and help improve the guidelines.
• Understand and implement security guidelines and best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve errors or critical issues.
• Mentor junior developers and share knowledge with the team.
• Demonstrate features built as part of the sprint to business stakeholders.
• Actively contribute and participate in sprint grooming and planning discussions, daily stand‑ups, and Agile ceremonies.
• Work on PoCs to adopt newer technologies and frameworks.

• 5+ years of hands on experience in Java/J2EE and related technologies
• Hands on experience in integrating and working in a Java full stack environment.
• Hands on experience in working on multi‑threaded, highly available applications.
• Hands on experience in working in Core Java, Spring, Spring Boot, RESTful web services.
• Practical experience working with databases (preferably DB2) and database interface layers.
• Effective communication skills, ability to work across both Business users and IT teams across regions and have the ability to lead IT deliverables.
• Understanding of agile development methodologies and understanding of Dev Ops practices and tooling.
• Pro…