Lead Software Engineer - Full stack - Java

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.

As an engineer at a global financial technology company, you'll be an integral part of FactSet's success. Our engineers enjoy FactSet's flexible environment, where everyone can contribute individually, while also benefiting from a community that depends on each other for help, learning, and development.

We are responsible for a variety of common products that handle multiple data structures, perform complex algorithms, and also for dedicated UIs to empower our users' experience. As a Software Engineer, you will be part of the Vault project team in an Agile environment.

The Vault Core team currently consists of a product manager and seven software engineers, junior and senior. The back-end in Java stores attribution performance data in a database and performs calculations. The front-end in Vue.js enables visualisation and management of the results. The services are available through web services, using REST and GraphQL.

The team is building new tools to measure system performance by running load tests.

Tech stack: Angular, Vue.js, JavaScript, Java JDK 21, internal framework, Redis, AWS (Aurora), posgreSQL, Kubernetes

Team: 6 software engineers based in Paris working in an agile environment.

Responsibilities:

• Solve hard problems through programming in Java
• Contribute to the architecture
• Use design patterns, and experience the advantage of unit & integration tests
• Develop, test and deploy software. Additional features and/or content are released to solution end users
• Communicate and collaborate with product developers, direct manager and engineering peers to develop the expected solutions

• 10+ years of experience
• Master's degree in Computer Science or equivalent training
• Ability to learn and apply internal systems and processes for developing and deploying software
• Strong Experience in Java development
• Experience in working with multithreading
• Strong experience with relational databases
• Good command with unit, integration test, and functional test (TDD)
• Good experience in applying the best practices (Clean code, refactoring)
• Experience in working with design patterns (Builder, visitors,...)
• Good command in French

• Experience in Cloud technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS)
• Passion and enthusiasm for software engineering and keeping up to date with the latest technologies