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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We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Symbology UK team, which is responsible for the integration, storage, and publishing of securities reference data and corporate events information that support critical commercial content integration functions and is itself relied on by FactSet’s client base.
Symbology engineers strive to understand the details of complex financial markets to provide the business with timely, accurate, and rapid answers to fundamental questions about the instruments and events in those markets, billions of times per day.
The team: 3 Software engineers based in London
Technical stack: Python,Perl, C++, SQL, git, CI/CD pipeline, Rest API
Responsibilities:
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Designing, developing and maintaining backend content update systems using Perl/Python/C++ and Microsoft SQL Server
- Analyse complex datasets and implement data transformation best practices to ensure efficient, reliable, and high-quality data movement.
- Making strong technical contributions to projects with a focus on new enhancements, stability, and performance.
- Supporting On Call during UK business hours on a weekly rotation basis, as well as out of hours in the event of escalations for product areas you lead
- Actively participating in code reviews, technical discussions and stakeholders’ meetings
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and best practices in data engineering and suggest process improvements to enhance system performance and reliability.
- Being self-driven, working closely with the team lead, and taking responsibility for independent project execution
Minimum Requirements:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in software development with a focus on data pipelines and web services
- Strong knowledge of Python or Perl and Microsoft SQL Server
- Experience with modern development workflows, including version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines.
Critical Skills:
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Solid track record of designing and building robust software solutions
- Strong technical, analytical, troubleshooting, and communication skills
- Familiarity with RESTful API design and development
Additional Skills:
- Strong communication, organisation, and interpersonal skills
- Ability to articulate technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences
- The ability to tune database queries and workloads for improving performance and scale will be highly desired
- Ability to onboard and apply internal systems and processes for developing and deploying robust software solutions
Education:
- Undergraduate degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
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.
At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.
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What We Do
FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.
For 40 years, through market changes and technological progress, our focus has always been to provide exceptional client service. From more than 60 offices in 23 countries, we’re all working together toward the goal of creating value for our clients, and we’re proud that 95% of asset managers who use FactSet continue to use FactSet, year after year.
As big as we grow, as far as we reach, and as successful as we become, we stay connected to our clients and to each other.
