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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Software Engineer – Benchmark & Indices – Markets - Data Solutions
The Benchmarks and Indices business represents one of the key strategic areas of focus for FactSet’s Data Solutions organization, and it is now at a pivotal point in product maturity. There is an opportunity to innovate the business with new solutions while managing the existing business via more turnkey and standard solutions. To support this growth and maturity, the engineering team is expanding.
Your Team's Impact
As a team member, you will play a key role in maintaining and developing tooling to distribute index data. This will involve applying strong engineering principles, designing robust code, and making sound decisions. Your focus will be on delivering code that is consistently high-quality, stable, and scalable, which will enhance your understanding of the inner workings index data distribution. Additionally, you will collaborate with various stakeholders, including the product development team, support teams, and other engineering teams across the company.
What You'll Do
- Exhibit comprehensive knowledge of data structures and algorithms, object-oriented programming, and software engineering principles.
- Ensure that deployed products are adequately maintained throughout their lifecycle, including participating in on-call responsibilities.
- Engage in design and code reviews for various products across multiple programming languages in an agile environment.
- Communicate effectively with clients and stakeholders to translate their needs into teamwork initiatives.
- Demonstrate the ability to learn quickly and be open to acquiring new skills and knowledge.
- Make substantial technical contributions to team projects, with a focus on new enhancements, stability, and performance.
- Be self-motivated and collaborate directly with the team lead, taking responsibility for independent project execution.
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, or similar technical field or equivalent practical experience.
- 2+ years of software engineering experience required
- Proficiency in HTML, CSS, TypeScript, and web frameworks/libraries such as AngularJS or Vue.js
- Experience with .NET and it's development environment
- Familiarity with relational databases, data modelling techniques, and ORMs
- Strong technical writing and presentation skills
- Familiarity with API design
- Experience with C++, Perl
- Experience with Cloud platforms such as AWS or Heroku
- Experience or knowledge of CI/CD concepts and GitHub
- An interest in the financial services domain
What's 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 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.
