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KDB Developer
£120,000 - 125,000
James Joseph Associates
City Road 152-160, Broad Street
£120,000 - 125,000
Requirements
Must:
- Several years of commercial experience in data engineering and analytics development in a similar high-performance environment
- Strong KDB+/q development skills (core focus)
- Solid Linux engineering experience, including awareness of low-level networking and kernel-level understanding
- Knowledge of large-scale storage systems, data distribution, and resilience/failover strategies
- Familiarity configuring and operating AWS services and Kubernetes-based infrastructure
- Experience working with Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 market data feeds
- Background in big data performance tuning, analytical workflows, and data visualisation
Responsibilities
- Build and improve analytics capabilities that give the front office and management clearer visibility across both new and existing areas of the business
- Develop scalable data pipelines to capture, clean, and store high-volume datasets from internal trading platforms and external market data feeds
- Create and refine efficient data-access frameworks to support live dashboards, execution performance analysis, and market microstructure research
- Design and implement complex event processing (CEP) workflows to detect data issues in real time and generate actionable signals
- Diagnose problems and continuously strengthen the platforms reliability, performance, and cost efficiency
- Contribute across the full software development lifecycle—from initial research and prototyping through delivery, testing, deployment, and ongoing support
Description
We are a leading, well-established digital asset quantitative trading firm currently in a high-growth phase, delivering record profits. We are looking for an accomplished KDB Developer to join our team, working closely with front-office quants and traders to design and develop latency-sensitive data solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a team that thrives on innovation and collaboration.
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