Senior KDB+ Developer — Front-Office Trading Tech (Hybrid)

Talan; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working: 3 days onsite

Job summary

Talan is seeking an experienced Senior KDB+ Developer to join its front-office technology team in London. You will design, develop and enhance real-time analytics and trading capabilities for Fixed Income products, working closely with traders and quantitative specialists.

You will mentor junior developers, provide technical leadership, and help deliver robust solutions with rapid feedback cycles and frequent releases in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience developing with KDB+ / q in front-office or electronic trading.
• Strong software engineering principles with testing and delivery.
• Experience developing real-time data processing systems.
• Good knowledge of UNIX/Linux environments.
• Excellent communication with traders and stakeholders.
• Solid understanding of Fixed Income, electronic trading, market data or quantitative finance.
• Experience with the TorQ framework, qSpec or qUnit.
• Exposure to trading algorithm governance or compliance tooling.
• Mentoring developers or leading technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with traders to understand business requirements and deliver solutions.
• Design, develop, test and deploy enhancements to Fixed Income algorithmic trading and risk platforms.
• Build and maintain high-performance real-time KDB+ processes, schemas and APIs.
• Develop solutions for trading surveillance, compliance monitoring and algorithm oversight.
• Create monitoring dashboards using Altair Panopticon where appropriate.
• Perform ad hoc statistical and quantitative analysis of trading algorithm performance, market data and client activity.
• Support maintenance, optimisation and evolution of KDB+ infrastructure and applications.
• Contribute to release management processes and governance standards.
• Provide technical guidance to junior developers and promote engineering best practices.
• Deliver third-line support and technical assistance to production and operations teams.

Skills

KDB+ / q

Front-office trading

UNIX/Linux

Real-time processing

Algorithmic trading

Communication with traders

Mentoring juniors

Tools

TorQ framework

qSpec

qUnit

Altair Panopticon

Job description

Talan is seeking an experienced Senior KDB+ Developer to join its front-office technology team in London. You will design, develop and enhance real-time analytics and trading capabilities for Fixed Income products, working closely with traders and quantitative specialists.

You will mentor junior developers, provide technical leadership, and help deliver robust solutions with rapid feedback cycles and frequent releases in a fast-paced environment.