Senior Software Engineer, Factset

• The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic about collaborating to understand existing workflows and distributed computing platforms, along with their requirements for speed, scale, and stability
• The candidate will contribute to modernizing our systems to meet current demands, focusing on optimizing performance and enhancing user-friendliness to improve overall time to market.
• To be successful in this role, a candidate will need to be comfortable with learning and acting as a full stack engineer, as the domain will cover back-end and front-end work, AWS, API design and interaction and more
• 5 years of full life-cycle software development experience with demonstratable project success
• Experience developing AWS based solutions
• Familiarity with C# and scripting languages like Python and Powershell
• Familiarity with JavaScript, CSS, HTML. Vue and Flexbox would be a bonus
• Knowledge of CI/CD concepts and tools
• Exposure to relational and NoSQL database technologies
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science is required

Desirable

• FactSet is looking for a motivated Senior Software Engineer to join the Fixed Income Infrastructure Engineering team within the Institutional Buy Side Middle Office organization.
• In this role, you will support and evolve the technology and platforms used to serve the needs of the various client and development workflows involved in fixed income analytics and data generation.
• This team works closely with other engineering, product development and quant teams in the Risk and Fixed Income space, as well as several other teams which consume fixed income services and APIs.
• Fixed income poses a distinctive computational challenge due to the vast universe of available securities, the substantial data required for processing, and the complexity of the mathematical models utilized
• Improve and expand the usage of an AWS based platform which hosts ephemeral distributed compute fixed income processing environments
• Design and build web-based developer and operational tools
• Design and build consistent APIs for various service and workflow interactions
• Learn developer and production workflows and implement solutions to improve speed, stability and scale, and improve time to market
• Be data driven, publish logs and metrics to enable solid decision making
• Develop and maintain high-quality code and scripts
• Collaborate with other engineers and product developers to brainstorm ideas, prototype and build solutions
• Follow best practices of code reviews, writing tests, writing documentation and use of version control
• Provide expedient triage/support as necessary to avoid downtime and development roadblocks

• A competitive package offering generous paid time off for personal, vacation, parental, and medical leave.
• Comprehensive health coverage for employees and their families, at little or no cost to employees.
• Discounted services at gyms and wellness facilities.
• Free working lunch in the office Monday through Thursday.
• A social community involved in sports, charities, and in-office events.
• Certification reimbursement for eligible expenses related to the CFA, IPM, CAIA, and FRM exams.

Total funding: $0.2m

FactSet is an S&P 500 company creating flexible, open data solutions for investment professionals around the globe. The company was founded at the end of the 1970s, when the prominence of computers spurred the founders to find a way to deliver computer-based financial information. In doing so, FactSet revolutionized the delivery of this data to clients, which had previously been by messenger and on paper.