Front-Office KDB+/q Real-Time Trading Engineer

Vertus Partners; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 203,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working arrangement

Direct interaction with trading desks

Long-term project

Job summary

Vertus Partners is seeking an experienced KDB Developer to join its front-office technology team supporting electronic trading in Fixed Income markets. You will collaborate with traders, quants and technologists to enhance real-time pricing, trading and risk systems used at the desk.

The role involves hands-on engineering with exposure to trading workflows, rapid delivery cycles and business stakeholders, plus a hybrid working arrangement in the UK.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience developing with KDB+ and q in a front-office or trading environment.
• Good understanding of real-time data processing and high-performance systems.
• Linux/Unix expertise and familiarity with software development best practices.
• Experience designing, testing and supporting business-critical applications.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance KDB+/q applications supporting pricing, trading and risk capabilities.
• Develop and maintain real-time data pipelines, analytics services and associated APIs.
• Partner directly with traders and front-office stakeholders to capture requirements and deliver technology solutions.
• Contribute to the design and evolution of high-performance market data and time-series data platforms.
• Support monitoring, analysis and reporting around trading performance and market activity.
• Participate in application releases, production support and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Help shape technical standards, development practices and testing approaches within the team.

Skills

KDB+/q

Real-time data processing

Linux/Unix

CI/CD tooling

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Vertus Partners is seeking an experienced KDB Developer to join its front-office technology team supporting electronic trading in Fixed Income markets. You will collaborate with traders, quants and technologists to enhance real-time pricing, trading and risk systems used at the desk.

The role involves hands-on engineering with exposure to trading workflows, rapid delivery cycles and business stakeholders, plus a hybrid working arrangement in the UK.