Principal Software Architect (Full Stack, Design and Develop Financial Trading Applications)
FactSet1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable, high-performance features for new and existing products.
- Collaborate with architects and LiquidityBook teams to develop cohesive designs and products.
- Define and promote engineering strategy, standards, and best practices across the organization.
- Mentor engineers and support their technical growth.
- Drive modernization initiatives involving performance, reliability, maintainability, refactoring, and technology upgrades.
- Participate in code reviews, technical design sessions, and problem resolution.
- Drive automated testing practices.
- Contribute hands-on code and detailed technical solutions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with strong emphasis on backend and frontend development.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant work experience.
- Experience architecting and delivering large-scale distributed systems.
- A track record of setting technical direction and mentoring engineering teams.
- Outstanding problem-solving and communication skills.
- Preferred experience developing financial trading applications, especially OMS, EMS, or similar systems.
- Preferred experience as a full-stack developer with Java.
- Familiarity with high-performance or low-latency architectures is preferred.
- Knowledge of trading workflows or FIX protocol is preferred.
- Preferred experience leading system modernization and technology evolution in enterprise environments.
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About FactSet
FactSet builds a financial data and analytics platform used by asset managers, investment banks, hedge funds, and wealth managers for research, portfolio management, trading, and risk. Its products include the FactSet workstation, data feeds and APIs, and workflow tools like OMS/EMS, sold primarily via subscription licensing. Founded in 1978 and headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut, FactSet is a public company listed on the NYSE (ticker: FDS).