Top Benefits
About the role
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.
About Irwin Irwin, a FactSet Company, is a leading provider of capital markets-focused financial technology with a mission to seamlessly connect the world's capital seekers and allocators to make them more productive, innovative, and successful. Our flagship product, Irwin, is a software platform used by investor relations and investment banking professionals all over the world. In October 2024, Irwin joined FactSet and added its investor relations solution to its existing offering.
About The Role As the Platform Engineering team leader at Irwin and reporting directly to the Head of Irwin Engineering, you will lead a team of SREs, Backend and Front End platform engineers responsible for maintain our infrastructure in AWS, our DevOps tooling and the stack that powers the Irwin app. You will be expected to use your experience and skills across technology, process and people leadership to continuously improve how we work together and deliver value for the business and our customers which includes the Product engineering teams.
- Our technology: Irwin is powered by several key technologies. Our toolkit is primarily Ruby on Rails with REST powered APIs, and our web/mobile front-ends are React and ReactNative with Typescript. We use https://eventide-project.org for building Distributed Systems components using Event Sourcing and PUB/SUB messaging patterns. We expect engineers to have proficiency in one or more of these areas. Most engineers are expected to be able to cross technical domains and contribute to both the back-end and front-end as needs arise
- Your work will matter: You will be responsible to your team and their stakeholders. You will need to maintain solid relationships with the Research, Product Management, Design, and Security & Compliance teams. You will work to keep team morale and productivity high, providing a viable career path for everyone on your team. You will evaluate, coach and promote your team members as well as seek coaching and mentorship from senior leaders across Irwin as you hone your own people and project management skills.
- Embrace growth with us: We value openness and recognize our dynamic environment isn't for everyone. If you're passionate about learning and stretching your limits, we're excited to meet you!
- We love writing and are trying to build a culture where ideas are proposed and debated via writing. If you’re ready to flex your creativity, excel at your craft, fuel your curiosity, and thrive in a dynamic environment, we’re confident you’ll love being here.
Required Skills and Experience: Minimum Requirements
- Extensive professional background with 3+ years leading a similar platform engineering team accountable for cloud infrastructure within fast-paced, dynamic environments, delivering complex products through iterative development cycles.
Critical Skills
- Demonstrated expertise in identifying, evaluating, and implementing cutting-edge technologies, platforms, and architectural frameworks to drive technical innovation and long-term scalability.
- Highly skilled in facilitating system architecture and design reviews, enabling robust technical discussions to converge on optimal solutions, standardized design patterns, and system-wide best practices.
- Proven track record of establishing and enforcing advanced code quality standards, performing rigorous code reviews, and institutionalizing automated testing procedures for maintainable, secure, and high-performance software deliverables.
- Exceptional leadership in cultivating engineering culture centered on transparent communication, continuous feedback, and cross-disciplinary collaboration to maximize team productivity and morale.
- Deep commitment to technical mentorship, providing guidance on architectural decisions, development methodologies, and professional growth to engineers at all levels.
- Strategic contributor to organizational technical roadmap, partnering with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into actionable engineering initiatives aligned with long-term vision.
- Actively advocate for the engineering team’s priorities and technical requirements during executive-level strategy sessions, ensuring technical perspectives inform key business decisions.
Desired / Preferred Skills
- Experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, etc.).
- Experience managing, tuning, and scaling PostgreSQL databases.
- Experience with Terraform (modular design, environment promotion, CI/CD integration).
- Experience with CI/CD systems (Gitlab CI, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
- Experience with GitOps workflows (Argo CD, Flux, etc.).
- Experience with Kubernetes (deployment, scaling, networking, security).
- Experience with monitoring and logging stacks (DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
- Track record in designing, communicating, and executing complex infrastructure roadmaps.
- Experience mentoring and enabling engineering teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Education
- Bachelors degree in computer science or similar.
About Our Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunity to work on a leading investor relations platform with a global impact.
- Professional growth opportunities.
- “Dev Days” every quarter to let you scratch that creative itch and work on your own projects.
- Opportunities to meet members of the executive team through our global speaker series and social events.
- A mentor to provide guidance, answer questions, and help you build valuable connections.
- A social community dedicated to volunteerism, intramural sports, and team-building events.
- An introduction to our Business Resource Groups designed to cultivate an inclusive environment for all.
Interviewing Process
- First interview with the hiring manager to assess experience, basic technical skills and cultural fit - 1 hour
- Second, deeper technical interview with two team members for a deeper technical assessment - 1 hour
- Optional third technical interview with the same two team members if they cannot cover everything in the first hour
- Last 30-minute interview with the hiring manager to answer any remaining questions before we proceed to offer.
If you like thinking about the big picture and solving tough problems, want to be innovative and generate new ideas for the product and company, and are absolutely obsessed with learning new things and out-of-the-box thinking, then join us and let’s create great products together!
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.
At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.
Top Benefits
About the role
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.
About Irwin Irwin, a FactSet Company, is a leading provider of capital markets-focused financial technology with a mission to seamlessly connect the world's capital seekers and allocators to make them more productive, innovative, and successful. Our flagship product, Irwin, is a software platform used by investor relations and investment banking professionals all over the world. In October 2024, Irwin joined FactSet and added its investor relations solution to its existing offering.
About The Role As the Platform Engineering team leader at Irwin and reporting directly to the Head of Irwin Engineering, you will lead a team of SREs, Backend and Front End platform engineers responsible for maintain our infrastructure in AWS, our DevOps tooling and the stack that powers the Irwin app. You will be expected to use your experience and skills across technology, process and people leadership to continuously improve how we work together and deliver value for the business and our customers which includes the Product engineering teams.
- Our technology: Irwin is powered by several key technologies. Our toolkit is primarily Ruby on Rails with REST powered APIs, and our web/mobile front-ends are React and ReactNative with Typescript. We use https://eventide-project.org for building Distributed Systems components using Event Sourcing and PUB/SUB messaging patterns. We expect engineers to have proficiency in one or more of these areas. Most engineers are expected to be able to cross technical domains and contribute to both the back-end and front-end as needs arise
- Your work will matter: You will be responsible to your team and their stakeholders. You will need to maintain solid relationships with the Research, Product Management, Design, and Security & Compliance teams. You will work to keep team morale and productivity high, providing a viable career path for everyone on your team. You will evaluate, coach and promote your team members as well as seek coaching and mentorship from senior leaders across Irwin as you hone your own people and project management skills.
- Embrace growth with us: We value openness and recognize our dynamic environment isn't for everyone. If you're passionate about learning and stretching your limits, we're excited to meet you!
- We love writing and are trying to build a culture where ideas are proposed and debated via writing. If you’re ready to flex your creativity, excel at your craft, fuel your curiosity, and thrive in a dynamic environment, we’re confident you’ll love being here.
Required Skills and Experience: Minimum Requirements
- Extensive professional background with 3+ years leading a similar platform engineering team accountable for cloud infrastructure within fast-paced, dynamic environments, delivering complex products through iterative development cycles.
Critical Skills
- Demonstrated expertise in identifying, evaluating, and implementing cutting-edge technologies, platforms, and architectural frameworks to drive technical innovation and long-term scalability.
- Highly skilled in facilitating system architecture and design reviews, enabling robust technical discussions to converge on optimal solutions, standardized design patterns, and system-wide best practices.
- Proven track record of establishing and enforcing advanced code quality standards, performing rigorous code reviews, and institutionalizing automated testing procedures for maintainable, secure, and high-performance software deliverables.
- Exceptional leadership in cultivating engineering culture centered on transparent communication, continuous feedback, and cross-disciplinary collaboration to maximize team productivity and morale.
- Deep commitment to technical mentorship, providing guidance on architectural decisions, development methodologies, and professional growth to engineers at all levels.
- Strategic contributor to organizational technical roadmap, partnering with Product, Design, and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into actionable engineering initiatives aligned with long-term vision.
- Actively advocate for the engineering team’s priorities and technical requirements during executive-level strategy sessions, ensuring technical perspectives inform key business decisions.
Desired / Preferred Skills
- Experience with AWS services (EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, IAM, etc.).
- Experience managing, tuning, and scaling PostgreSQL databases.
- Experience with Terraform (modular design, environment promotion, CI/CD integration).
- Experience with CI/CD systems (Gitlab CI, GitHub Actions, or equivalent).
- Experience with GitOps workflows (Argo CD, Flux, etc.).
- Experience with Kubernetes (deployment, scaling, networking, security).
- Experience with monitoring and logging stacks (DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.).
- Track record in designing, communicating, and executing complex infrastructure roadmaps.
- Experience mentoring and enabling engineering teams.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Education
- Bachelors degree in computer science or similar.
About Our Offer
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Opportunity to work on a leading investor relations platform with a global impact.
- Professional growth opportunities.
- “Dev Days” every quarter to let you scratch that creative itch and work on your own projects.
- Opportunities to meet members of the executive team through our global speaker series and social events.
- A mentor to provide guidance, answer questions, and help you build valuable connections.
- A social community dedicated to volunteerism, intramural sports, and team-building events.
- An introduction to our Business Resource Groups designed to cultivate an inclusive environment for all.
Interviewing Process
- First interview with the hiring manager to assess experience, basic technical skills and cultural fit - 1 hour
- Second, deeper technical interview with two team members for a deeper technical assessment - 1 hour
- Optional third technical interview with the same two team members if they cannot cover everything in the first hour
- Last 30-minute interview with the hiring manager to answer any remaining questions before we proceed to offer.
If you like thinking about the big picture and solving tough problems, want to be innovative and generate new ideas for the product and company, and are absolutely obsessed with learning new things and out-of-the-box thinking, then join us and let’s create great products together!
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.
At FactSet, we celebrate difference of thought, experience, and perspective. Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to characteristics protected by law.