Senior KDB+/Q Engineer for Front-Office Trading Tech

Cadogan Solutions; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cadogan Solutions seeks an experienced Senior KDB+ Engineer to join a front-office Equities technology team supporting high-performance trading, market data and quantitative analytics platforms.

You will design and build scalable KDB+/q solutions used for real-time decision-making, historical analysis and trading strategy development, working closely with traders and researchers in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with KDB+/q and time-series data processing in front-office environments.
• Strong Linux and scripting skills.
• Experience integrating KDB+ with Python, Java or C++ applications.
• Ability to diagnose complex production issues in time-sensitive environments.
• Knowledge of cash equities, electronic trading or systematic trading.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and enhance high-performance KDB+/q applications for Equities trading.
• Build real-time and historical market data platforms capable of processing large tick data volumes.
• Translate business requirements into production-quality solutions with traders and researchers.
• Develop analytics, data models and APIs supporting trading, pricing, execution and risk workflows.
• Improve performance, scalability and resilience of existing KDB+ systems.
• Investigate production issues and provide front-office support.
• Integrate KDB+ platforms with upstream market data feeds and downstream trading apps.

Job description

Cadogan Solutions seeks an experienced Senior KDB+ Engineer to join a front-office Equities technology team supporting high-performance trading, market data and quantitative analytics platforms.

You will design and build scalable KDB+/q solutions used for real-time decision-making, historical analysis and trading strategy development, working closely with traders and researchers in a fast-paced environment.