FactSet creates flexible, open data and software solutions for tens of thousands of investment professionals around the world, providing instant access to financial data and analytics that investors use to make crucial investment decisions. We bring together the world of big data, your own in-house data, and our own unique alternative data to help investment professionals see and seize opportunity sooner. FactSet helps the world’s leading financial professionals stay ahead of global market trends, access extensive company and industry intelligence, and monitor performance with our leading desktop analytics, mobile applications, and comprehensive data feeds.
Exceptional Service
For 40 years, through market changes and technological progress, our focus has always been to provide exceptional client service. From more than 60 offices in 23 countries, we’re all working together toward the goal of creating value for our clients, and we’re proud that 95% of asset managers who use FactSet continue to use FactSet, year after year.
As a FactSet client, you’ll have round-the-clock access to a team of experienced consultants and product specialists who work with you one-on-one to fully understand your firm’s workflows and develop innovative ways to streamline research and analysis
Job Description :
FactSet Instant Messenger (FIM) is an open collaboration platform purpose-built to enhance the workflow needs of global financial professionals. Go beyond traditional messaging on a single network to access research, share ideas, and find partners among contacts on a variety of networks. The platform is fully integrated within the FactSet Workstation, letting you easily share news, charts, and other components. The platform’s unique “blast” functionality lets you simultaneously send messages to multiple recipients, allowing you to communicate time-sensitive information to a number of contacts. The FIM client connects not only to the FactSet Network, but also to consumer networks like AOL and Google Talk.
The System
The system consists of two main components with the frontend, a native .NET WPF application, and a set of java-based backend servers that implement the XMPP and HTTP RESTful APIs used by the client application. Our HTTP services are extremely lean, built as standalone Jetty processes, without any application server or extra framework. The client and server components depend heavily on integrations with other FactSet systems to support our feature rich platform.
The Company and Department
FactSet is a leading provider of financial data and analytic applications for investment management and investment banking professionals around the globe. FactSet offers instant access to financial data and analytics to thousands of analysts, portfolio managers, and investment bankers at the world’s financial institutions. FactSet’s business is built on the creative use of technology and an unwavering dedication to client service. We remain on the cutting edge by continually developing and refining our software. Our tools enable clients to perform investment research at the most sophisticated level. We offer individual consultant contacts, 24-hour personal support, and dedication to our users for client service that is unsurpassed in the industry. In addition to an excellent working environment which has been voted one of the UK’s Best Places to Work for the last 4 years; we offer opportunities for professional development, career advancement in a structured environment that offers staff the chance to express themselves.The Instant Messenger engineering team consists of highly motivated and skilled individuals that thrive with the challenge of developing and supporting Factset's real time communication platform. The workflow is modelled after Agile development values with regular “stand up” meetings and empathises on strong TDD. Each IM engineer is expected to contribute to all components of the system, manage their work from design to testing and delivery in close collaboration with the Product Development and QA teams. This is a great opportunity for a strong engineer to join our highly energetic team with the common goal of building a cutting edge service.
Responsibilities
Experience
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| Education Backgrounds: |
Software Engineering |
| Specialties: |
Database Design Engineering Programming Testing |
| Education Level: |
Undergraduate (Bachelors) Postgraduate (Masters) |
| Experience: |
2 - 5 years 5 - 10 Years |
| Languages spoken: |
English |
| Job Location: | London, England |
Type: Job
Deadline: 14th December 2013
Job reference (ID): 5918
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