# KDB+/q Developer

**Company**: Morgan Stanley
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Morgan Stanley's Automated Risk Trading (ART) team is hiring a KDB+/q Developer to build and support our equities trading data platform. The team develops e-trading systems for risk internalization, hedging, and market-making across global markets within the Institutional Equity Division.

**Responsibilities**

- Design, build, and maintain KDB+/q components that support real-time data capture and analytics generation.

- Deliver enhancements across the full software lifecycle: requirements, development, testing, release, and production support, with a strong focus on reliability and data correctness.

- Investigate production and data-quality issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement durable fixes that reduce repeat incidents.

- Improve platform observability and operational tooling, including monitoring, logging, alerting, and backfill/recovery workflows.

- Optimize q queries and data pipelines for performance, scalability, and maintainability.

- Contribute practical engineering ideas that improve delivery speed and platform robustness.

**Required skills**

- At least 5 years of KDB+/q experience working with large financial datasets in Unix/Linux environments.

- Understanding of KDB architecture and time-series data workflows in production.

- Experience supporting process-oriented production systems.

- Ability to work directly with front-office users in a fast-moving environment.

**Preferred skills**

- Scripting/automation experience in Python.

- Experience with Snowflake.

- Experience with equities electronic trading systems.

**What you can expect from Morgan Stanley**

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered.

## Skills

### Required
- KDB+/q
- Unix/Linux
- financial datasets
- production systems

### Nice to have
- Python
- Snowflake
- equities electronic trading systems

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