KDB Engineer - Equities Research Technology

We are seeking a skilled KDB Engineer to join our team responsible for designing, developing, and supporting technology platforms used firmwide for equities research and trading. The successful candidate will work closely with the R&D and application development teams to create next-generation high-performance real-time analytics solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the design, prototype, and implementation of high-performance real-time analytics solutions
• Collaborate with the team to build a market-leading portfolio PL and Risk platform
• Work with different technologies to provide state-of-the-art intraday analytics platforms
• Impact application development and architecture of highly scalable real-time platforms

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience in KDB+ q application development on Linux
• Experience in writing and maintaining feed handlers, real-time and historical databases
• Experience in working with multiple q processes interacting with each other in tandem
• Experience in writing clean testable code
• Basic understanding of computer networking
• Experience working with various monitoring tools
• Basic understanding of equities, linear products, and financial markets
• Good team player with a strong willingness to participate and help others

Nice-to-have:

• Cross-asset risk analytics experience
• Experience building large-scale real-time portfolio risk and PL engines
• Experience rebuilding platforms to scale horizontally with the business
• Experience with KDB+ q or interfacing C/C++ with KDB