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About FactSet:

FactSet Research Systems Inc. is a global provider of integrated financial information, analytical applications and industry-leading services for the investment and corporate communities. As a publicly traded company (NYSE:FDS | NASDAQ:FDS) recently added to the S&P 500 index, FactSet delivers superior content, analytics, and flexible technology to help more than 162,000 users see and seize opportunity sooner. For over 40 years, the company has served financial professionals, which include portfolio managers, investment research professionals, investment bankers, risk and performance analysts, wealth advisors and corporate clients. FactSet gives our clients the edge to outperform with informed insights, workflow solutions across the portfolio lifecycle, and industry-leading support from dedicated specialists.

As a globally inclusive community unified by the FactSet spirit of going above and beyond for each other, we enable our people to be themselves at work and to join in, be heard, contribute, and grow. Our work environment maximizes diversity values, engagement, productivity, and ultimately makes FactSet a fun place to work.

Department Brief:
Quotes Content team is responsible for delivering variety of real-time financial content to FactSet’s clients. Team develops and maintains backend software in C++ on UNIX which is deployed to a fault- tolerant, redundant infrastructure in order to guarantee timely delivery of real-time data with high degree of accuracy.


JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

• Design , Development, testing and deployment of software to deliver real time financial data content
• Develop and maintain tools/web-apps to operate on huge data content fetched from exchanges
• Work closely with product development team to release exchange feeds to production
• Work independently and deliver in a deadline focused environment
• Take up weekly oncall responsibilities on a rotational basis
• Manage production releases, bug fixes and respond to outages in a time critical fashion
• Participate in peer code reviews, maintaining project/operational documentation and help with training/coaching of less experienced team members

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• 5-8 years of software development experience
• Strong professional experience developing C++ applications on Linux
• Professional experience with UNIX / LINUX operating system programming environments
• Familiarity with basic networking concepts
• Knowledge of STL and Boost library is highly desirable
• Working knowledge of Python, Shell Script, Cloud technologies ( AWS) is highly desirable
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Strong in data structures and algorithms
• Comfortable working in a real-time, 24/7 production environment
• Comfortable working with geographically diverse team
• Excellent organizational and communication skills
• B.Tech/BE/M.Tech/ME in Computer Science or equivalent from a reputed college/university

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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