Senior KDB+ Developer - Front Office Fixed Income Trading

Harvey Nash IT Recruitment UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 148,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey Nash IT Recruitment UK is seeking an experienced Senior KDB+ Developer to join a front office Fixed Income algorithmic trading team in London. This hands-on role focuses on building pricing, trading and risk management tools with low-latency data processing.

You will work closely with traders and quants, deliver real-time KDB+/q applications, develop dashboards, and contribute to production stability and release processes. The contract is 12 months with potential extension, London hybrid.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in KDB+/q development.
• Experience working in a Front Office trading or quantitative finance environment.
• Strong understanding of Fixed Income products and markets.
• Experience with low-latency systems and Real Time data processing.
• Strong Linux/UNIX operating system knowledge.
• Experience with performance monitoring and optimisation.
• Knowledge of software delivery processes, testing strategies and release management.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to engage with traders and technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and deliver KDB+/q applications for Fixed Income algorithmic trading desks.
• Build and maintain Real Time KDB+ processes, APIs and data schemas.
• Work directly with traders to understand requirements and deliver technology solutions.
• Support pricing, trading, hedging and risk management algorithms.
• Develop monitoring dashboards using Altair Panopticon.
• Perform statistical analysis of algorithm performance, market data and trading behaviour.
• Maintain and evolve existing KDB+ infrastructure.
• Develop compliance monitoring tools and provide third-line production support.
• Support software releases and ensure appropriate testing and deployment processes.

Skills

KDB+/q

Front Office trading

Fixed Income

Low latency

Linux/Unix

Performance monitoring

Release management

Communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or related

Tools

TorQ framework

Altair Panopticon

qspec

qunit

GitLab

GitLab CI/CD

JFrog Artifactory

Rundeck Masterdeploy

Agile methodologies

Job description

Harvey Nash IT Recruitment UK is seeking an experienced Senior KDB+ Developer to join a front office Fixed Income algorithmic trading team in London. This hands-on role focuses on building pricing, trading and risk management tools with low-latency data processing.

You will work closely with traders and quants, deliver real-time KDB+/q applications, develop dashboards, and contribute to production stability and release processes. The contract is 12 months with potential extension, London hybrid.