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Senior KDB Developer

London, England, gb💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-22 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, develop, and enhance real-time pricing, trading, hedging, and risk management solutions for Fixed Income products in a front-office electronic trading environment.

Role type

Senior KDB+ Developer (Front-Office)

Builds

Real-time analytics and trading capabilities for Fixed Income algorithmic trading and risk management platforms.

Domain

Financial Services / Fixed Income Trading / Real-time Data Processing

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

KDB+/q development, real-time data processing, UNIX/Linux, software engineering principles, Fixed Income products, algorithmic trading, quantitative finance

Preferred skills

TorQ framework, qSpec/qUnit, Altair Panoption, trading algorithm governance, technical mentorship

Technologies

KDB+, q, UNIX/Linux, Altair Panopticon, TorQ

Responsibilities

Partner with traders to deliver technical solutions; Design and deploy enhancements to trading and risk platforms; Build high-performance real-time KDB+ processes and APIs; Develop trading surveillance and compliance monitoring solutions; Create monitoring dashboards; Perform statistical analysis of trading performance; Maintain and optimize KDB+ infrastructure; Provide technical guidance to junior developers; Deliver third-line support.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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