Senior KDB Developer - London: Real-Time, Low-Latency

N Consulting; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

N Consulting in London seeks a Senior KDB Developer to join a technology team focused on high-performance financial data systems. You will work on KDB+/q applications and real-time data pipelines within a trading environment.

The role requires deep KDB+ and q experience, strong problem-solving skills, and collaboration with traders and quants to optimise latency and throughput across large datasets.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with KDB+ and q for building high-performance systems.
• Strong background in financial markets and market data processing.
• Experience designing and optimising real-time data pipelines and latency-sensitive apps.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain KDB+/q applications for trading and analytics.
• Build real-time and historical data pipelines supporting large market data volumes.
• Collaborate with traders, quants and other tech teams to improve architecture and performance.
• Troubleshoot complex performance and data-processing issues.

Skills

KDB+/Q knowledge

Financial markets experience

Low-latency programming

Data modelling

Real-time data processing

Linux/Unix proficiency

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Tools

KDB+ tooling

Job description

N Consulting in London seeks a Senior KDB Developer to join a technology team focused on high-performance financial data systems. You will work on KDB+/q applications and real-time data pipelines within a trading environment.

The role requires deep KDB+ and q experience, strong problem-solving skills, and collaboration with traders and quants to optimise latency and throughput across large datasets.