Software Developer – Data Services (KDB+/Q)

Squarepoint Capital; New York (NY); On-site; USD 80,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative investment management firm is seeking a Software Developer specializing in KDB+/Q to join their Data Services team. In this role, you will design and optimize data pipelines while collaborating closely with investment researchers to deliver high-quality data solutions. The firm emphasizes a collaborative culture where your contributions will directly impact their cutting-edge data infrastructure. If you are passionate about data and technology and thrive in a dynamic environment, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact in financial markets. Join a team that values excellence and diversity of thought while working on solutions that drive success in trading and research.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of development experience with KDB+/Q is essential.
• Experience in designing and optimizing data applications is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and troubleshoot KDB+/Q data pipelines and services.
• Collaborate with researchers to ensure evolving data service needs are met.

Skills

KDB+/Q development

Data pipeline optimization

Troubleshooting data services

Collaboration with research teams

Education

Bachelor's degree in a STEM subject

Job description

Please only apply to the one job you feel best fits your skill set and experience. If our team feels you are better suited for another role, we will reach out about the alternate opportunity.

Software Developer – Data Services (KDB+/Q)

Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. With offices around the globe, we emphasize true, global collaboration by aligning our investment, technology and operations teams functionally around the world.

Role: Software Developer – Data Services (KDB+/Q)

Team: Data Services

Department: Data Development

The Data Development group manages the lifecycle of data used by investment for trading, backtesting and research. We work with quants and tech teams to integrate, process and serve data from vendors and public sources in Squarepoint's data infrastructure (alpha data and cross-asset referential data).

We are currently seeking new data developers to join our growing teams. You will be part of a learning culture, where teamwork and collaboration are encouraged, excellence is rewarded and diversity of thought and creative solutions are valued.

Reference Data Services teams work closely with portfolio managers to design, implement, test and maintain Squarepoint's service-oriented database architecture for research and production. They work primarily in kdb+ and own Squarepoint's core model of reality, normalize many datasets to that model, and expose that model through robust, redundant, scalable infrastructure with an uptime greater than 99.999% during trading hours. There is a strong operational component to the role, as they act as level 2+ support for these services during live trading.

Position Overview:

• Acquire a deep understanding of the data requirements of investment research teams to deliver the right solutions.
• Design, implement, test, optimize and troubleshoot kdb+/q data pipelines, frameworks and services.
• Work closely with data operations and data platform developers to improve our data platform and reduce our technical debt.
• Collaborate with and influence technologists and investment researchers to ensure our reference data services meet constantly evolving requirements.
• Write and review technical documents, such as requirements docs for researchers, design docs to propose new platform solutions and production support runbooks.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a STEM subject.
• 2+ years development experience with kdb+/q.

Nice to have:

• 2+ years designing, testing, optimizing and troubleshooting data intensive applications.
• Experience analyzing and organizing financial data.