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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Your Team's Impact
Quotes Engineering is an important part of FactSet's Real Time data offering. Quotes Content team covers over 200 exchanges worldwide and multiple datasets to bring real time quote data to various FactSet Applications as well as clients using various data feed products. It powers various crucial applications like charts, time & sales, pricing to name a few.
Some of the challenges involve processing high amount of real time data (For example a single US options feed line can send more than 150k messages per second), low latency programming (creative way to process high volume of data while keeping the latency low), efficient memory usage when processing large amount of data. Some of the rewards include being the team that powers FactSet's real time offering and drives a lot of design practices within the company.
Quotes Content team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join it's US team. As a senior person on the team, you will be responsible for driving new developments, maintaining various feeds as well as other supporting infrastructure. Being good at time management and prioritizing various tasks will be key to success during exchange and client driven projects. You will use your experience and knowledge of best practices in this domain to advance FactSet's Journey being one of the first financial company to offer real time market data in the cloud. As part of a team that is always on the leading edge of transformation you will also be part of team's evolving cloud infrastructure and offerings.
Minimum Requirements:
- 4-5+ years of software development/engineering experience.
- Proficient in C++ ( CX98 and CX11 onwards )
Critical Skills:
- Hands on coding experience and being able to work in fast paced environment.
- Must be willing and able to work Hybrid 3 days per week
- Being able to work with product managers and very effective at communicating with various stakeholders.
Preferred / Desired Skills:
- Financial market knowledge, especially market data on post trade/quotes side will be a huge advantage
- Knowledge of industry standard feed formats like FIX, FAST, SBE
- Messaging libraries like Zero-MQ or Tibco or Kafka.
- Being able to work and develop on Linux/CentOS.
- Various scripting languages as needed (Perl, Python, bash)
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
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 accommodation 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.
The budgeted salary range for this position in the states of Connecticut and New York is $130,000.00 - 150,000.00
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 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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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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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.
