# KDB Engineer - Equities Research Technology

**Company**: Equity IT
**Location**: New York, New York, United States of America
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $175,000 to $250,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

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

## Skills

### Required
- KDB+ q application development
- Linux
- Feed handlers
- Real-time and historical databases
- Computer networking
- Monitoring tools
- Equities
- Linear products
- Financial markets

### Nice to have
- Cross-asset risk analytics
- Large-scale real-time portfolio risk and PL engines
- Rebuilding platforms to scale horizontally with the business
- KDB+ q
- C/C++ with KDB

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