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REALTIME MARKET DATA ENGINEERING

FactSet is seeking a talented software engineer with strong C/C++ skills to join the Datafeed Engineering Team. This team is responsible for the development and maintenance of servers that deliver streaming real-time market data, and multiple SDKs that target several different programming languages, on both the Windows and Linux platforms. Our software allows internal and external engineers to programmatically access real-time market data content across a wide variety of platforms and languages. With just a few lines of code, users can easily integrate FactSet’s wide range of streaming market-data into their applications.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• 6-8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Realtime Market Data Engineering experience

CRITICAL SKILLS:

• 5+ years of experience developing software in C or C++ in a Linux environment.
• Fundamental understanding of network programming
• Ability to communicate effectively with peers within FactSet and with external users.
• Track record of success developing and shipping software on time.

ADDITIONAL / DESIRED SKILLS

• Familiarity with ZeroMQ
• Experience writing software for Windows
• Experience developing software intended to run in a public cloud environment such as AWS or Azure
• Experience developing APIs
• Understanding of real-time market data and the requirements for processing large amounts of input with low latency
• Ability to work in groups and independently
• Experience developing software in any of the following languages
• Java
• .NET Core / C# / COM
• Golang
• Python

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent.

• Develop, test, and deploy software and services to end users.
• Design and implement user-friendly APIs that deliver streaming real-time market data.
• Participate in and contribute to design reviews, code reviews, and brainstorming sessions.
• Communicate and collaborate with product developers, QA, API users, and other stake holders.
• Respond to bug reports and feature requests.
• Participate in an on-call rotation.