KDB+/q Developer for Real-Time Data Platforms (Hybrid)

EPAM Systems; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work mode

Flexible work hours

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

EPAM Systems in Lisbon, Portugal, seeks a KDB Developer to join our team in a hybrid mode. You will design, build and optimize a production-grade data platform supporting electronic equities market data, enabling low-latency analytics across the firm.

You will work with traders, quants and IT teams to deliver high-performance KDB+/q applications for data ingestion, transformation, storage and retrieval, and you will contribute to dashboards with Tableau or Python and participate in CI pipelines.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of software development experience.
• Experience with electronic trading platforms or high-load real-time systems.
• Familiarity with KDB+/q development for data-intensive applications.
• Understanding of CI/CD and automated testing principles.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and refine requirements.
• Develop dashboards using Tableau or Python frameworks such as Plotly and Streamlit or through official analytics pipelines.
• Design, code, test and deploy KDB+/q services for data enrichment and presentation.
• Profile and optimize KDB queries to improve performance and reduce bottlenecks.
• Participate in on-call rotations, address production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Document code, processes and procedures for effective knowledge sharing and continuity.
• Contribute to automated unit, integration and performance testing as well as CI pipelines.
• Implement schema validation and outlier detection checks to ensure data quality.

Skills

KDB+/q development

High-load real-time systems

CI/CD

Problem solving

Tools

Tableau

Plotly

Streamlit

Python

Job description

EPAM Systems in Lisbon, Portugal, seeks a KDB Developer to join our team in a hybrid mode. You will design, build and optimize a production-grade data platform supporting electronic equities market data, enabling low-latency analytics across the firm.

You will work with traders, quants and IT teams to deliver high-performance KDB+/q applications for data ingestion, transformation, storage and retrieval, and you will contribute to dashboards with Tableau or Python and participate in CI pipelines.