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Senior Software Engineer

FactSet
IND
Full-time
Senior · 5+ years experience
Onsite
Discovered 4 days ago
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Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and deploy the Data Access interface that defines how clients access data.
  • Implement query patterns and APIs that balance flexibility, performance, and security.
  • Enforce entitlements to ensure clients access only authorized data products.
  • Leverage metrics and KPIs to optimize query execution, incorporating caching and performance strategies to meet client SLAs.
  • Build observability into the layer — end-to-end request tracing, provenance, and source attribution surfaced in responses.
  • Own Data Access products and features, driving bug fixes, performance enhancements, and scalability improvements.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to continuously improve development processes.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical design reviews and architecture decisions for the Data Access layer.
  • Participate in a regional on-call rotation to support production system

Required Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related field.
  • 5+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on API development, query systems, or data infrastructure.
  • Strong proficiency in Python and C++, with experience building production-grade, client-facing systems.
  • Solid understanding of OOP principles and software design patterns.
  • Experience with API design and building orchestration layers across multiple backend systems.
  • Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively, with experience leading technical initiatives.
  • Passion for designing and implementing efficient, scalable, and maintainable software.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with multithreaded programming, low latency, and high-availability systems.
  • Knowledge of query engine architecture, parsers, compilers and interpreters.
  • Experience implementing caching strategies (Redis, Memcached) for query results and metadata.
  • Experience with service-oriented architecture and microservices design.
  • Understanding of distributed systems and handling failures gracefully across service boundaries.
  • Experience working with large-scale data systems and balancing latency, throughput, and cost.
  • Background with rate limiting, throttling, and client quota management.
  • 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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