Remote Senior Full-Stack Developer

We’re seeking someone to join our Firmwide Data Office team as a Senior Full-Stack Developer to help us build an Enterprise Knowledge Graph by harnessing the power of Graph and Semantic technologies along with LLMs, and Agentic AI to map complex business, application, data, data, and infrastructure asset relationships to facilitate data-driven insights and decision making.

The Firmwide Data Office (FDO) sits within Morgan Stanley Technology and focuses on data as a key priority within the overall Technology and the Firm strategy.

We are a team of around 200+ people distributed globally and are engaged in a wide array of projects touching all business units (Institutional Securities, Investment Management, Wealth Management) and functions (e.g., Operations, Finance, Risk, Trading, Treasury, Resilience, Production Management) across the Firm. The team vision is a multi-year effort to improve data governance & management practices, to demonstrate data quality controls, simplify firm's data architecture and business processes front-to-back, empowering developers by providing consistent means of handling data, facilitate data-driven insights & decision making.

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities. This is a Principal Data & Analytics Engineering position at Vice President level, which is part of the job family responsible for providing specialist data analysis and expertise that drive decision-making and business insights as well as crafting data pipelines, implementing data models, and optimizing data processes for improved data accuracy and accessibility, including applying machine learning and AI-based techniques.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

Apply your depth of knowledge and expertise to all aspects of the software development lifecycle.
js, Remix, React, and Node.js/Express.
Take complete ownership of feature development - from requirement analysis to production deployment.
Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices (including unit tests, code reviews, documentation).
Work collaboratively in an Agile/Scrum team environment with designers, product managers, and other developers.
Ensure responsive and accessible UI design, integrating closely with the UX team.
Drive decisions around state management, data fetching strategies, caching and performance optimization.

8+ years of hands-on experience in full stack web development with strong emphasis on Next.js and React.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science
• Deep knowledge of JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Solid experience with microservices architecture, REST APIs, and server-side rendering (SSR).
• Strong understanding of frontend principles including responsive design, accessibility, and UX best practices.
• Experience working with databases (SQL and NoSQL) such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, etc.
• Hands-on experience with version control systems (e.g., Experience in unit testing, integration testing, and test automation frameworks - Cypress.
• Experience working on Micro-frontends and Monorepo.
• Prior experience on UI Graph libraries like D3, React-flow (xyflow) etc.
• Exposure to DevOps practices including CI/CD pipeline & Jenkins.
• OWASP Top 10) and Performance monitoring tools (e.g. The multi-faceted and highly technical Montreal team plays a critical role in building and maintaining our leading technology platform, including electronic trading, algorithm trading, cloud engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity and AI/ML. Morgan Stanley has been rooted in the Montreal community since 2008 and is considered a leading employer among the area’s highly skilled technology talent. We offer a hybrid work environment, combining remote work and attendance in the office.

Knowledge of French and English is required.

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences.