DEPARTMENT BRIEF  

Research Engineering is responsible for FactSet’s breed & industry leading Market Data, deep-dive Reporting and Research management products highlighting FactSet’s proprietary content to the global financial community. These products are used by thousands of Asset Managers, Investment Bankers, and corporate clients around the world every day to assist with investment decisions, market monitoring, company and economic analysis and sharing of buy/sell decisions and the presentation of results. Research Engineering’s product space represents a high growth opportunity for FactSet’s workstation count. The software engineer would be working on the office integration product suite of research engineering team,

The Research Solutions SBU is focused on innovating the foundation of FactSet’s product offering. By marrying robust content, intuitive applications, and innovative technology, we defend and grow our footprint across several key user classes including investment banking, sell-side research, buy-side research, private equity, portfolio managers, traders, capital markets, investor relations, and media. This SBU contains Core Applications (Universal Screening, Company & Security Analytics, Industry and Markets, Filings, Ownership, Research, News, Charting) and our industry leading RMS suite. The SBU closely partners with the Content and Platform Horizontals on strategy for FactSet Web, Mobile, and much of FactSet’s content offering.

ABOUT FACTSET

FactSet combines hundreds of databases into a single, powerful information system. It is a one-stop source for financial information and analytics for business analysts, portfolio managers, investment bankers / management firms and other financial professionals to analyze companies, portfolios, markets & economies. FactSet was formed in 1978 and operates out of 64 locations worldwide. FactSet with over $1.6 billion in annual revenues is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut and employs nearly 10000 people worldwide. Our operations extend within North America as well as Europe and the Pacific Rim. Since 1996, the Company has been publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol FDS.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Translate application storyboards and use cases into functional applications.
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable code.
• Participate in multiple projects across the full product stack (front end, server code, and database).
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications.
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to mitigate and address these issues.
• Collaborate with internal teams to produce software design and architecture.
• Write clean, scalable code using JavaScript and Python.
• Revise, update, refactor and debug code.
• Improve existing software.
• Serve as an expert on applications and provide technical support.
• Collaborate with project stakeholders to understand and prioritize their needs.
• Mentor and coach other members of the team.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• B.Tech or M.Tech in Computer Science, or equivalent experience.
• 2 - 4 years of software engineering experience in building multi-tier web applications or websites.
• Professional Experience with Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, VueJS and C#.
• C++ knowledge is a plus.
• Office/Excel application experience (and development with COM API is a plus).
• Experience in PC side development in Windows and Linux shell environment.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools like Git.
• Experience in IDE like Visual Studio 2022, Visual Studio Code, Jupyter Notebook.
• Ability to articulate and quickly adopt development best practices.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent organizational and communication skills.
• Willingness to work as a member of a team, including participating in peer code reviews and maintaining project and operational documentation.

HIGHLY DESIRED SKILLS

• Experience with scripting languages like TypeScript.
• Experience with Vue.js or similar UI framework.
• Dependency management tools like Yarn, NuGet etc.
• Having exposure to running applications in the cloud preferably AWS.
• Profiling and performance tuning techniques throughout the stack.
• Experience interacting with clients.
• Comfortable working with geographically diverse team.
• Ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical people.