Software Engineer II

FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for over 200,000 investment professionals worldwide, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial decisions.

At FactSet, our values are the foundation of everything we do. They express how we act and operate, serve as a compass in our decision-making, and play a big role in how we treat each other, our clients, and our communities. We believe that the best ideas can come from anyone, anywhere, at any time, and that curiosity is the key to anticipating our clients' needs and exceeding their expectations.

At FactSet, we're working to be the best financial data provider. We need highly motivated, talented individuals empowered to find answers through creative technology to get there.

As a Software Engineer in Data Solutions Engineering, you will be part of our Digital Transformation, a mission to automate our data acquisition, quality assurance, content creation, and analytics in a scalable cloud environment. With the guidance of financial experts, you will leverage these large data sets to improve the quality and extend the scope of FactSet's existing and next-generation products.

You will be working on private market data, which are heterogeneous and voluminous datasets. With the right tools and problem-solving, we want to automate data collection at scale and infer information. The end goals are company classification, tag extraction, relationship mapping, and company valuation. There is huge potential for machine learning, analytics, and NLP.

The tech stack =>

The team =>

4 software engineer in New-York City, 1 Senior Data Scientist in Paris.

We are looking for 2 software engineers to reinforce the team in Paris.

Your responsibilities

• Build and scale an automatic data pipeline

Ingest and analyze various data sources to drive innovation in content creation.

• Automate the acquisition, relevance scoring, and storage of incoming sources.
• Develop processes for data mining, data concordance, and data production.
• Explore and evaluate new data technologies to build a scalable, cloud-oriented data platform.
• Optimize data retrieval and develop dashboards and other visualizations for financial experts.
• Participate in different projects as a data scientist and data engineer

Deliver clean, well-tested code that's reliable, maintainable, and scalable

• Build predictive models and communicate results with stakeholders
• Deploy working solutions
• Develop dashboards and other visualizations for financial experts.
• Develop processes for data collection, quality assessment, and quality control.
• Keep up to date / share your passions

Stay up to date with state-of-the-art approaches and technological advancement

• Share your passion for science, ML, and technology

Who are you?

• You have BS or MS in Computer Science or Mathematics related field .
• You have 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer or Data Scientist.
• You have a successful history of writing and releasing production-grade code in an enterprise environment.
• You are a team player and adept at learning new technologies and client workflows
• You have experience working with Agile methodology .
• You have strong analytical skills
• You can communicate about complex subjects to non-technical stakeholders
• You are familiar with terraform, python, pandas and NumPy

It is great if you have :

• Experience with Neural Networks / Deep Learning.
• Experience with information extraction, parsing, and segmentation,
• Experience with machine learning frameworks ( sklearn ...) and ML workflow
• Experience with NLP libraries and text preprocessing (nltk, SpaCy, language models, ... )
• Experience with cloud environments : AWS, Azure
• Experience with business intelligence tools like Tableau or PowerBI.
• Experience working with LLMs
• Experience working with AWS Services like EC2, RDS(Postgres), SQS, Sagemaker, MLflow, S3, API gateway, ECS
• Experience in UI frameworks like VueJS is a plus

Company Overview :

FactSet (NYSE : FDS | NASDAQ : FDS) helps the financial community to see more, think bigger, and work better. Our digital platform and enterprise solutions deliver financial data, analytics, and open technology to more than 8,200 global clients, including over 200,000 individual users. Clients across the buy-side and sell-side, as well as wealth managers, private equity firms, and corporations, achieve more every day with our comprehensive and connected content, flexible next-generation workflow solutions, and client-centric specialized support. As a member of the S&P 500, we are committed to sustainable growth and have been recognized among the Best Places to Work in 2023 by Glassdoor as a Glassdoor Employees' Choice Award winner. Learn more at www.factset.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.