KDB Engineer

Serocor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Serocor is seeking an experienced KDB+/q Specialist to join a fast‑moving engineering team building critical platforms that underpin Prime Brokerage, Financing, Intraday Risk, Market Data, and time-series analytics.

You will design scalable KDB+ solutions, optimise time-series data platforms, and collaborate with traders, quants and business stakeholders to deliver robust, high‑performance applications. This role involves guiding architecture and best practices across the KDB+ estate.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in KDB+/q required.
• Strong understanding of time-series databases and distributed data architectures.
• Experience with Linux/Unix administration and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and optimise high-performance KDB+/q applications and data platforms.
• Build scalable architectures for large-scale market data and analytics workloads.
• Partner with traders, quants and stakeholders to deliver robust technical solutions.
• Improve platform performance, resilience and operational stability.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive platform improvements.
• Contribute to design and engineering standards within the team.

Skills

KDB+/q

Time-series databases

Linux/Unix

CI/CD pipelines

High-performance systems

Tools

Kafka

Terraform

Ansible

Cloud platforms

Job description

We're looking for an experienced KDB+/q Specialist to join a high-performing engineering team building and evolving critical platforms that underpin Prime Brokerage, Financing, Intraday Risk, Market Data, and time-series analytics. These are business-critical systems that process high-volume, low-latency financial data and are used directly by front office, quantitative and risk teams.

You'll play a key role in designing scalable KDB+ solutions, optimising time-series data platforms, and partnering closely with traders, quants and business stakeholders to deliver robust, high-performance applications.

This is an opportunity to work on technically challenging engineering problems within a complex enterprise environment while influencing architecture and best practices across the KDB+ estate.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, develop and optimise high-performance KDB+/q applications and data platforms.
• Build scalable RDB/HDB architectures capable of supporting large-scale market data and analytics workloads.
• Partner with trading, quantitative, risk and business teams to understand requirements and deliver innovative technical solutions.
• Improve platform performance, resilience and operational stability.
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive continuous platform improvements.
• Contribute to technical design, engineering standards and mentoring within the team.

What We're Looking For

We're interested in engineers who have deep expertise in KDB+/q and enjoy solving complex engineering problems in high-performance financial systems.

You’ll ideally bring:

• Deep understanding of time-series databases and distributed data architectures.
• Experience designing, implementing and optimising RDB/HDB environments.Experience working with Market Data, Risk, Financing, Prime Brokerage or Securities Lending platforms.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and scripting skills.
• Experience supporting production systems within business-critical environments.

Experience with any of the following would be advantageous:

• Kafka
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Cloud platforms and cloud-native engineering
• CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices

Who You Are

Whether you're an experienced Senior Engineer looking for your next challenge or a Lead Engineer wanting to shape the future of a critical KDB+ platform, we'd love to hear from you. Please contact Lewis @ ARM on [e-mail]