Principal Software Engineer

at  FactSet Research Systems

FactSet’s Dealmakers & Wealth Engineering department is looking for a talented engineering leader to lead our Investment Dashboard product team. The Investment Dashboard product is a comprehensive market data solution utilizing real-time pricing, news, portfolio and alerting which seamlessly integrates with client APIs to unlock additional capabilities such as portfolio management and trading. The Investment Dashboard application supports the workflows of over 200,000 professional and retail investors.
In this role, the ideal candidate will lead the design, development, and product evolution of the Investment Dashboard application. Investment Dashboard is an Angular web application served by a NodeJS middle-tier. Part of the responsibilities of this candidate will be to evaluate the current technology landscape for Investment Dashboard and work to converge the development stack with the best practices, tools, and libraries of the larger engineering community at FactSet. This position will involve leading a team comprised of both direct FactSet employees and contractors whom we partner with. Team members are currently located in multiple locations in Europe including Germany, Serbia, and Greece. FactSet’s Investment Dashboard is a successful product and has been critical product for our clients and it possesses tremendous potential to continue expanding to new clients and developing new capabilities.
Team size: 7 software engineers
Technical stack: Node.JS, Angular, typescript, AWS, Heroku, docker, SQL, NoSQL, Java (legacy)
The product is being used by large enterprises globally and has an ambitious roadmap.

Responsibilities:

• Become the technical leader for the Angular and NodeJS elements of the application stack.
• Ensure reliability and scalability of the application and critical integration points with client APIs and internal services.
• Lead a team of engineers focused on the future strategy for Investment Dashboard
• Evaluate the technical architecture and formulate a plan to shift Investment Dashboard toward a future consistent with FactSet’s recommended technologies.
• Collaborate with peers in the Product organization to expand application capabilities.
• Interface directly with clients and collaborate with internal teams to deliver Investment Dashboard implementations and facilitate the integration of client APIs.
• Perform design and code reviews, and adhere to FactSet and industry best practices.
• Think and communicate critically about architecture, design, and implementations.
• Lead and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion within the team.

Required Skills:

• Degree in Computer Science, or equivalent.
• Strong experience level with web technologies (JavaScript/Typescript, Angular, Vue, NodeJS, SQL/NoSQL, etc.) (5+years of experience).
• DevOps ideally in a container-based environment (3+ years).
• Experience developing highly available, scalable, services in a production environment (8+years of experience).
• Strong communication, technical, analytical, and troubleshooting skills.

• Become the technical leader for the Angular and NodeJS elements of the application stack.
• Ensure reliability and scalability of the application and critical integration points with client APIs and internal services.
• Lead a team of engineers focused on the future strategy for Investment Dashboard
• Evaluate the technical architecture and formulate a plan to shift Investment Dashboard toward a future consistent with FactSet’s recommended technologies.
• Collaborate with peers in the Product organization to expand application capabilities.
• Interface directly with clients and collaborate with internal teams to deliver Investment Dashboard implementations and facilitate the integration of client APIs.
• Perform design and code reviews, and adhere to FactSet and industry best practices.
• Think and communicate critically about architecture, design, and implementations.
• Lead and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion within the team