KDB Developer
New Yesterday
Due to this expansion, an opportunity has arisen for an accomplished KDB Developer to join the team. In this role, you will work closely with front-office quants and traders and will be responsible for designing and developing latency-sensitive data solutions.
THE ROLE:
* Build and improve analytics capabilities that give the front office and management clearer visibility across both new and existing areas of the business.
* Develop scalable data pipelines to capture, clean, and store high-volume datasets from internal trading platforms and external market data feeds.
* Create and refine efficient data-access frameworks to support live dashboards, execution performance analysis, and market microstructure research.
* Design and implement complex event processing (CEP) workflows to detect data issues in real time and generate actionable signals.
* Diagnose problems and continuously strengthen the platform’s reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.
* Contribute across the full software development lifecycle—from initial research and prototyping through delivery, testing, deployment, and ongoing support.
SKILL / EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:
* Several years of commercial experience in data engineering, analytics development in a similar high-performance environment
* Strong KDB+/q development skills (core focus)
* Solid Linux engineering experience, including awareness of low-level networking and kernel-level understanding.
* Knowledge of large-scale storage systems, data distribution, and resilience/failover strategies.
* Familiarity configuring and operating AWS services and Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
* Experience working with Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 market data feeds.
* Background in big data performance tuning, analytical workflows, and data visualisation
- Location:
- Broad Street
- Salary:
- £120,000 - £125,000 /annum Circa £40 % Bonus + Pension + Bens
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- IT