📈 KDB+/Q Developer
📍 London (Hybrid)
💷 Up to £270,000 + Bonus + Exceptional Benefits
🧑 💻 1+ Years of Experience
🏢 Leading Global Trading Firm
🚀 The Opportunity
A top-tier hedge fund is seeking a KDB+/Q Developer to join its technology team, building next-generation research and analytics platforms at scale.
You’ll be developing ultra-low-latency systems that process massive volumes of real-time market data, directly supporting sophisticated trading strategies across global financial markets. This is a highly impactful role operating at the intersection of data engineering, quantitative research, and electronic trading.
Working closely with Quantitative Researchers, Portfolio Managers, and Traders, you’ll help deliver mission-critical systems that underpin the firm’s competitive advantage.
🔧 What You’ll Be Doing
* Design, build, and optimise high-performance KDB+/q applications for real-time market data processing
* Develop scalable, robust infrastructure for large-scale time-series data and analytics workflows
* Partner with Quant Researchers and Traders to deliver production-grade tools and insights
* Improve system performance, reliability, and scalability across critical data pipelines
* Contribute to architecture and design decisions for core trading technology systems
🌟 Why Join?
🧱 Greenfield Engineering
Play a key role in building new systems from the ground up, with real ownership from day one.
⚙️ Deep Technical Challenges
Solve complex, high-performance engineering problems in a latency-sensitive environment.
🧠 Elite Engineering Environment
Collaborate with world-class engineers, quantitative researchers, and trading professionals.
🗣️ Flat, Impact-Driven Structure
Enjoy direct influence over technical design, architecture, and system evolution.
🚀 High Performance Culture
Work in a fast-paced environment where technical excellence and impact are highly valued.
✅ What We're Looking For
* Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or another STEM discipline
* Strong commercial experience with KDB+/Q in production environments
* Experience working with real-time market data, time-series data, or electronic trading systems
* Solid understanding of high-performance, low-latency system design
* Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in collaborative teams
📩 Interested?
If you're excited about building the core data infrastructure that powers modern quantitative trading, we’d love to hear from you.
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