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 a part of Parametric's hybrid working model, which includes working in the office 2 -3 days a week and choosing to work remotely or in the office the remaining days of the week.
General Description
The Workflow Automation and Management team is working on continuing to build out and maintaining a cloud-based platform designed to
enable internal teams across different functions handle a high volume of operational type of work requests efficiently and error-free. The
platform aims to smoothly transition work between teams and between automated jobs and human handlers through a thoughtfully designed
user experience and flexible backend architecture.
We are looking for an experienced engineer who is technically comfortable, motivated to solve problems, loves to learn and experiment, uses
data and empirical evidence to make decisions, and enjoys collaborating with various people from different backgrounds and timezones. You'll
be joining a fast moving 2-pizza-cross-discipline team who works closely with the user base and is very determined to make them happy by
providing an incredible user experience. As a backend engineer, this means making our app reliable, performant and secure.
Primary Responsibilities
Scope, lead, build the backend portion of new user facing features in an evolving early stage product with a growing internal user base.
Work closely in a cross discipline team to build full stack user facing features. This will include doing API development, data engineering,
and cloud infrastructure development types of projects.
Help continue to mature the cloud-based platform that is critical to the day-to-day of the company. Make it increasingly low touch and
robust. Work with the support team to handle production issues. Help them help us in our endeavor in keeping the app up and available
all the time.
Work with engineers in other project teams to properly integrate with their services and applications in the execution of ETL style
worflows.
Develop and execute against both short- and long-term roadmaps. Make effective tradeoffs that consider business priorities, user
experience, and a sustainable technical foundation. Maintaining quality is important.
Teach and mentor both individual contributors and managers to become the next generation of leaders at Parametric. As a senior
member on a new team, you will be looked to for guidance. Help grow our organizational technical knowledgebase.
Job Requirements
Have 5+ years of experience shipping high-quality user-facing products and engineering large systems. You will work mostly in Python,
Terraform and use tech like AWS DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, AWS Lambdas, AWS ECS, Gitlab, Sentry so exposure to these is a plus. We
are open to skilled engineers with experience in other languages and equivalent tech.
Are comfortable working on a new product under fluid conditions, seamlessly balancing tactical and strategic considerations
Measure your success in terms of business impact, not lines of code
Internalize the best ideas from across the organization, humbly setting a vision that others are excited to get behind
Work well cross-functionally and earn trust from co-workers at all levels. You are often cited as the inspiration for engineers that join your
team
Prefer simple solutions and designs over complex ones, and have a good intuition for what will last and scale
Hold yourself and others to a high bar when working with production systems
Enjoy working with a diverse group of people with different areas of expertise. Engineering works closely with a variety of teams: Client
Relations, Investment Operations, Portfolio Management, Sales. Our goal to help make work flow between these different functionalgroups.
Salary range for the position: $110,000-225,000. 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. Please visit mybenefits.morganstanley.com to learn more about our benefit offerings.
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