Java Developer, Associate, Algorithmic Trading Technology, Hong Kong

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 competitive product offering in Algo Trading space which differentiate us from our competitors. We are looking for a senior Algo developer in 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 senior developer to join Morgan Stanley's algorithmic trading technology team in Asia. The ideal candidate will have strong Java, 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 algorithmic trading technology group. We are launching a global initiative to renovate our current benchmark trading platform, which offers 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 Java skills with proven experience writing production code
• Proficiency with Unix/Linux and multicast networking.
• Knowledge and experience on 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 Java 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 modelling
• Delivery/Project management experience