Principal Software Engineer

About FactSet's Realtime Marketdata Engineering Team

FactSet's Realtime Marketdata Engineering team is at the forefront of integrating all intraday and real-time market data. This encompasses live feeds from stock exchanges, real-time reference data, OTC data, and end-of-day prices. The data processed by this team is crucial for our clients, powering the FactSet Workstation and various internal applications. With a global presence, our team operates across multiple regions.

About the Pricing Team

The Pricing team specifically focuses on building and developing robust, low-latency, and resilient delivery mechanisms for Reference Data and End-of-Day Prices across all content datasets.

What You'll Do

• Design, architect, and develop systems for delivering large datasets in real-time.
• Develop and maintain tools and web applications for operating on extensive content data fetched from diverse sources.
• Collaborate closely with product development and product management teams.
• Work independently and deliver results in a deadline-driven environment.
• Design and develop low-latency, resilient systems and services.
• Manage production releases, address bug fixes, and respond to outages in a time-critical manner.
• Participate in peer code reviews, maintain project and operational documentation, and provide training and coaching to less experienced team members.
• Be independently responsible for significant projects spanning technical or operational boundaries (25-30% of time).
• Successfully complete high-impact projects (25-30% of time).
• Significantly and constructively impact the technical and/or operational direction of the department (20-25% of time).
• Routinely initiate and lead technical or operational discussions (20-25% of time).

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of software development experience in Golang/Python.
• Strong expertise in AWS services (breadth preferred over depth, given evolving architecture).
• Strong experience in API development.
• Experience in designing scalable data pipelines or backend systems.
• Thorough understanding of Real-Time platform architecture and large-scale distributed systems.
• Familiarity with various data repository technologies and their appropriate use cases.
• Experience with production-level support and knowledge transfer/training of junior employees.
• Knowledge of advanced programming techniques including Low Latency, Resiliency, Network Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms, Memory Management, and File Management.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills for effective interaction with both engineering and non-engineering groups.
• Ability to convey requirements, identify obstacles, and define team goals clearly.
• Computer science background/education to design fast, memory-efficient, scalable, maintainable, and resilient applications.
• Leadership skills to guide and influence others in producing high-quality software efficiently and cohesively.
• Business acumen to ensure software addresses corporate needs and workflows optimally. Understanding of real-time and high-frequency trading systems, financial instruments, and market dynamics to design software for trading environments.
• Time/resource management and planning skills to balance requirements from different product developers.
• Ability to ensure tasks are completed on time based on priorities and that clients consistently see software improvements.
• Problem-solving and quick-thinking abilities to provide immediate solutions to critical issues impacting employees and workflows.