KDB Developer - Equities

Millennium Management; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking a KDB Developer to join their EQ Real-Time PL & Risk team. This role involves developing high-performance real-time analytics platforms while mentoring junior developers. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in KDB+ and a passion for financial markets.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in KDB+ q application development.
• Experience with Feed handlers, databases, IPC/WS/HTTP communication.
• Good understanding of Financial markets and a desire to work directly with investment professionals.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, and implement high-performance real-time analytics solutions.
• Manage and support junior developers.
• Build a market-leading portfolio PL and Risk platform.

Skills

KDB+ q application development

Linux operating system

C/C++/Python

Computer Networking

Monitoring tools (Datadog, ELK stack)

Team collaboration

Job description

KDB Developer - Equities

EQ Real-Time PL & Risk is a front office team responsible for the design, development and support of various technology platforms that enable our businesses to view, evaluate, hedge and trade the live position, pl and risk. We build and own the platforms that provide the entire firm with T0 unofficial and live risk and pl.

Responsibilities include:

• Work with the R&D and application development teams to assist in design, prototype and implementation of next generation high-performance real time analytics solutions in the industry to scale with the business
• Manage and help junior developers on the team
• Assist the team in building out a market leading portfolio PL and Risk platform for latency critical processes with high visibility among trading teams as well as management teams.
• Work with different technologies to provide the state-of-the-art intraday analytics platforms used in various risk and portfolio management systems across the entire firm
• Contribute to application development and architecture of highly scalable real time platforms

Qualifications, Skills and Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in KDB+ q application development on Linux along with good understanding of the Linux operating system.
• Experience in writing and maintaining Feed handlers, real-time and historical databases with exploring optimization opportunities in the way we store/query/process data
• Experience in working with multiple q processes interacting with each other in tandem and with routines written in C/C++/Python via IPC/WS/HTTP.
• Experience in writing clean testable code
• Basic understanding of Computer Networking
• Experience working with various monitoring tools like Datadog, ELK stack etc.
• A strong interest in financial markets and a desire to work directly with investment professionals
• Good team player with a strong willingness to participate and help others
• Drive to learn and experiment

Nice-to-have

• Experience building large-scale real-time portfolio risk and pl engines

• Experience re-building platforms to scale horizontally with the business
• Experience with KDB+ q or interfacing C/C++ with KDB