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 are looking for a talented and experienced Software Engineer III to join our Buyside Services Engineering team. In this role, you will serve as an individual contributor responsible for designing, building, enhancing, and maintaining a suite of industry-leading products that power FactSet's Portfolio Services and Managed Services business.
You will work closely with cross-functional teams including Product Development, Analytics Engineers, and Team Leads to deliver high-quality, performant, and scalable software solutions that drive transparency, data integrity, and operational efficiency for our clients. You will take ownership of complex technical initiatives, contribute to solution design, and help improve the scalability, reliability, and maintainability of our applications.
The Buyside Services Engineering team drives the evolution of workflow and process monitoring tools that are critical to FactSet's managed and co-sourced operating model offerings.
Our products provide:
- End-to-end transparency from client data integration to processed data consumption
- Data validation and accuracy assurance at every stage of transformation and enrichment
- Presentation-ready outputs for performance, risk, and reporting operations
- Managed Services capabilities that shift the burden of data and process management from clients to FactSet's domain experts
Through continuous innovation and dedicated expertise, we empower clients to focus on their core competencies while we ensure the integrity, timeliness, and quality of their analytical operations.
What You'll Do
- Design and develop complex features, enhancements, and technical solutions across our applications
- Own development activities from technical design through implementation, testing, deployment, and production support
- Collaborate with Product Development to understand business requirements and translate them into scalable and maintainable technical solutions
- Contribute actively to technical design discussions and evaluate solutions for performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability
- Identify opportunities to improve application performance, stability, scalability, and technical health
- Diagnose and resolve complex production issues, identifying patterns and opportunities for preventative improvements
- Break down larger technical requirements into well-defined development tasks and deliverables
- Work with the Product Development team to prioritize and resolve production and development issues
- Champion engineering best practices through code reviews, automated testing, documentation, and thoughtful technical design
- Share technical knowledge and provide guidance to less-experienced engineers through code reviews, troubleshooting, and day-to-day collaboration
What We're Looking For
- 3–5 years of hands-on software engineering industry experience
- Strong Python proficiency with a demonstrated track record of building production-grade, client-facing systems
- Strong understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles, software design patterns, and maintainable application architecture
- Proven experience designing and building RESTful APIs and backend services
- Strong JavaScript/TypeScript experience with the ability to build and maintain modern web applications
- Experience with JavaScript-based frontend frameworks such as Vue.js, Angular, or React
- Hands-on experience with frontend and backend testing frameworks such as Jasmine, Karma, Puppeteer, pytest, and unittest
- Strong database design skills with hands-on PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, query optimization, indexing strategies, and relational data models at scale
- Experience working with large datasets using Polars or equivalent dataframe libraries
- Experience implementing caching strategies for query results and metadata
- Experience with service-oriented architectures and developing applications composed of multiple interconnected services
- Ability to troubleshoot complex application and production issues across multiple components
- Experience independently delivering complex technical work while collaborating effectively with Product and Engineering partners
- B.Tech / M.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent educational background
Good to have
- Practical experience with AWS services including SQS, Lambda, and ECS
- Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Understanding of failure handling and resiliency across service boundaries
- Experience designing parallel or asynchronous workflows to improve throughput and resource utilization
- Experience working with large-scale data systems and balancing latency, throughput, and cost
- Understanding of multi-tier architectures and orchestration across multiple backend systems
- Experience with rate limiting, throttling, and client quota management
- Experience with D3.js and interactive data visualization
- Experience with graph databases such as Neo4j and graph-based data modelling.
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.
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.
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of hands-on software engineering industry experience
- Strong Python proficiency with experience building production-grade, client-facing systems
- Understanding of object-oriented programming principles, software design patterns, and maintainable application architecture
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs and backend services
- Strong JavaScript and TypeScript experience
- Experience with frontend frameworks such as Vue.js, Angular, or React
- Experience with frontend and backend testing frameworks such as Jasmine, Karma, Puppeteer, pytest, or unittest
- Strong database design skills and hands-on PostgreSQL experience, including schema design, query optimization, indexing, and relational data models at scale
- Experience working with large datasets using Polars or equivalent dataframe libraries
- Experience implementing caching strategies for query results and metadata
- Experience with service-oriented architectures and interconnected services
- Ability to troubleshoot complex application and production issues across multiple components
- Experience independently delivering complex technical work while collaborating with Product and Engineering partners
- B.Tech, M.Tech in Computer Science, or equivalent educational background
- Practical experience with AWS services including SQS, Lambda, and ECS
- Experience with microservices architecture and distributed systems
- Understanding of failure handling and resiliency across service boundaries
- Experience designing parallel or asynchronous workflows
- Experience with large-scale data systems and balancing latency, throughput, and cost
- Understanding of multi-tier architectures and backend orchestration
- Experience with rate limiting, throttling, and client quota management
- Experience with D3.js and interactive data visualization
- Experience with Neo4j or graph-based data modeling
Factset Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Factset and has not been reviewed or approved by Factset.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental/vision in some descriptions, and life and disability insurance. Company-wide wellness days and region-specific add-ons (e.g., Vitality PMI, Bupa dental, Health Shield cashback) further reinforce a strong health-and-wellbeing offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement savings support is consistently included as part of the core package through retirement savings plans. The presence of these programs is framed as a meaningful component of total rewards beyond base salary.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase program is highlighted as a standard part of the total rewards package. This provides a pathway to share ownership alongside cash compensation.
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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.
