Overview

FactSet provides flexible, open data and software solutions for investment professionals worldwide. We deliver financial data and analytics to help investors make crucial decisions. Our values guide how we act, operate, and treat each other, our clients, and our communities. We believe the best ideas come from anyone, anywhere, and curiosity is key to anticipating our clients’ needs and exceeding their expectations.

Role/Department Description

The Data Hub team is seeking a talented and highly motivated engineer for the role of Lead Software Engineer. The Data Hub team within the Data Solutions Engineering department is leading the effort to streamline and modernize the way Data Solutions distributes first- and third-party data across FactSet. You’ll be part of a team building out a greenfield microservices-based architecture, crucial to the successful transformation of Data Solutions\' data distribution strategy. Team members are exposed to the entire FactSet technology stack and are given the flexibility to rapidly develop and prototype solutions using many different technologies and programming languages as we seek to improve our cloud-oriented service layer.

The team: 2 software engineers based in the UK.

Technical stack: GraphQL, Golang, SQL, Python, SQL, Databricks, AWS.

Responsibilities

• Leading the architecture, design, development, and launch of high available, low latency, flexible and scalable services.
• Significantly influencing our overall strategy by helping define features, drive the system architecture, and spearhead the best practices that enable a quality product.
• Researching 3rd party products that promote service-oriented architecture in AWS and FactSet.io.
• Designing and implementing service data models, caching models and APIs.
• Promoting infrastructure as code and helping teams to shift to an automated deployment process.
• Contributing to Open Source projects that are driving the latest service architectures.

Required Skills

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field;
• Strong experience in architecting and building multi-threaded, distributed systems;
• 6+ years of experience as a software engineer with a good experience in Golang or Python or Rust and SQL.
• Ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast paced environment;
• Experience taking a leading role in building complex software systems that have been successfully delivered to customers;
• Experience working with AWS main services (e.g. EC2, ECS, S3, Glue);
• Extensive programming experience in multiple languages (C#, Python, Go preferred).

Company Overview

FactSet (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees’ Choice Award winner.

At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology