FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access

to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.

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FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.

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.

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.

Responsibilities:

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.

Minimum Requirements:

5 years of full life-cycle software development experience with demonstratable project success.

Critical Skills:

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.

Desired Skills:

Ability to tackle ambiguously defined problems by gathering requirements and crafting complete solutions.
Curiosity and a drive to understand the broader context of tasks.
Strong problem solving and communication skills.
Adaptability and willingness to learn new languages or technology as needed.
Ability to work as part of a global, cross-functional team.
Desire to take ownership over projects across the full life cycle.
Proven experience in modernization and automation efforts.
Experience in the FinTech industry.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science is required.

Whats In It For You

At FactSet, our people are our greatest asset, and our culture is our biggest competitive advantage. Being a FactSetter means:

The opportunity to join an S&P 500 company with over 45 years of sustainable growth powered by the entrepreneurial spirit of a start-up.

Support for your total well-being. This includes health, life, and disability insurance, as well as retirement savings plans and a discounted employee stock purchase program, plus paid time off for holidays, family leave, and company-wide wellness days.

Flexible work accommodations. We value work/life harmony and offer our employees a range of accommodations to help them achieve success both at work and in their personal lives.

A global community dedicated to volunteerism and sustainability, where collaboration is always encouraged, and individuality drives solutions.

Career progression planning with dedicated time each month for learning and development.

Business Resource Groups open to all employees that serve as a catalyst for connection, growth, and belonging.

Learn more about our benefits here.

Salary is just one component of our compensation package and is based on several factors including but not limited to education, work experience, and certifications.

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. Learn more at www.factset.com .

At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. FactSet participates in E-Verify

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