Senior Software Engineer-Portfolio Commentary

ABOUT FACTSET

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world, providing instant anytime, anywhere access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.

Founded in 1978 and for over 40 years, through market changes and technological progress, our focus has always been to provide exceptional client service. From more than 27 offices in 20 countries, employing more than 12,000 people, FactSet has over $2.09 Billion in annual revenues and is headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, we're all working together toward the goal of creating value for our clients, and we're proud that 90% of clients who use FactSet continue to use it, year after year. FactSet is a leading global provider of financial data, analytics, and models.

VALUES THAT DEFINE OUR CULTURE

We are unified by the spirit of going above and beyond for our clients and each other. We look to foster a globally inclusive culture, enabling our people to be themselves at work and to join in, be heard, contribute, and grow. We continually seek to expand our workforce with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences. We recognize that our best ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time and help us provide the best solutions for our clients around the globe. Our inclusive work environment maximizes our diversity values, engagement, productivity, and ultimately makes FactSet a fun place to work.

DEPARTMENT BRIEF :

The Institutional Buy Side SBU is responsible for the strategy, execution, and development of products that establish FactSet as the premier technology partner for the Analytics investment community. The Buy Side Middle Office group provides a fully connected ecosystem, increases operational efficiency, and reduces the total cost of ownership for our clients. The Middle Office group is looking for a talented and motivated individual to join a team of software engineers building, maintaining, and driving the effort to provide Portfolio Commentary in interactive and batched fashion across all client Portfolios.

RESPONSIBILITIES :

As a Portfolio Commentary Engineering team member, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying web services built using Golang and front-end UI frameworks like VueJS / Angular / Fusion.

The role requires technical competency and experience in building scalable and performant applications for both the frontend and backend.

Experience in using LLMs, prompt engineering, Vector databases, and RAG will certainly be an added advantage.

JOB REQUIREMENTS :

• A fast learner and a great team player willing to collaborate with stakeholders
• Be self-driven and proactive in getting things done
• 6-9 years of experience in designing and implementing web services with Go and Protobuf.
• Experience / Knowledge in designing and implementing concurrent programming in Go
• Experience in Front End technologies like VueJS and AngularJS
• Experience in building LLM and RAG-based applications that require working knowledge of Prompt engineering. Having knowledge of ML evaluation pipelines and Databricks is a nice to have.
• Knowledge of Databricks, and evaluation pipelines like MLFlow and vector databases like Weaviate.
• Experience in developing and deploying applications on Heroku.
• Experience with CI / CD concepts like GitHub Actions, Docker, etc.

DIVERSITY

At FactSet, we celebrate diversity of thought, experience, and perspective. We are committed to disrupting bias and a transparent hiring process. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, sex, national origin, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, family status, or veteran status. FactSet participates in E-Verify.

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Skills Required

Golang, Vuejs, Angularjs