KDB Developer - Equities

Millennium; London; On-site; USD 75,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial firm seeks a KDB Developer specializing in equities to join a dynamic team. The successful candidate will design innovative real-time analytics platforms, support junior developers, and work closely with trading teams. Strong experience with KDB+ and a passion for financial markets are essential for this mid-senior level opportunity in London.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in KDB+ q application development on Linux.
• Experience in writing and maintaining Feed handlers and databases.
• Interest in financial markets.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement high-performance real time analytics.
• Manage junior developers and assist in their growth.
• Build a market-leading portfolio PL and Risk platform.

Skills

KDB+ q application development

C/C++/Python programming

Computer Networking

Real-time analytics solutions

Testing and maintaining code

Tools

Datadog

ELK stack

Job description

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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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Investment Management

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