Senior Software Engineer (Backend)

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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Role Description: 

The FactSet Estimates Engineering team is seeking a talented and highly motivated technical person for the role of Senior Software Engineer. 

The team works within the Data Solutions Engineering department and is responsible for the integration and development of FactSet’s global financial broker estimates dataset and product. This is a high-profile and high-usage product. 

You'll be joining a team of 3 engineers working on a wide variety of technologies and platforms, including Microsoft SQL Server databases, .NET core services deployed on both Windows and Linux [on-premise and AWS], in-memory data structures, C++ and Python code for consuming those services and highly performant ETL layers. 

The team: 2 software engineers in London and 1 engineer in Hyderabad. The manager of the team is based in London. A variety of engineering and product teams from across the globe also interact with the FactSet Estimates engineering team. 

Technology Stack Used 

• GitHub 

• C# .NET 

• C++ 

• Python 

• SQL Server 

• AWS Services [Lambdas, EC2s] 

• Terraform 

Responsibilities: 

• Contribute to the technical development of the entire codebase including webservices, ETL pipelines, AWS and on-premise infrastructure. The technology stack is listed above. 

• Partner with Manager and Product Development team [as part of an agile team] to plan, influence and deliver agreed roadmap items.  

• Maintain a high standard of code quality and focus on robust, scalable design given the high frequency and high impact usage of this dataset across FactSet. 

• Partner with FactSet Estimates Collections Engineering team based in Hyderabad, India and other engineering teams across FactSet to deliver Estimates dataset. 

Required Skills: 

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent field. 

• 4+ years of experience with C# .NET. 

• Experience with Python

• Experience working with high-throughput web-services infrastructure – both on-premise and on AWS infrastructure.

• Willingness to participate in rotating on-call duties for data services. 

• Strong communication, organisation, and interpersonal skills.  

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills. 

Desired Skills: 

• Relational database experience (SQL Server or a similar RDBMS). 

• Experience with C++.  

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 and follow us on X and LinkedIn.  

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