KDB+/Q Developer

Salary: $64,000 - 104,000 per year Requirements:

• At least 8 years of hands-on software development experience, focused on high-performance, low-latency systems in the financial sector.
• Deep practical expertise in KDB+/Q, including scaling, load balancing, resilience, and query-performance optimization for large, high-frequency datasets.
• Experience designing and developing analytics platforms for automated trading systems in equities or similar asset classes.
• Strong understanding of financial market protocols such as FIX, with practical experience handling order and market data.
• Experience with testing frameworks, Agile methodologies, and CI/CD processes.
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks, set goals, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to present and understand complex technical and business concepts.
• A bachelors degree or equivalent experience; a masters degree is preferred.
• Experience in electronic markets trading or market making is preferred.

• Lead technical design discussions and conduct code reviews to uphold quality, performance, and architectural standards.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to developers, promoting best practices in high-performance KDB+ development.
• Design, develop, and optimize high-performance, low-latency KDB+/Q applications for our equities electronic trading analytics and data subsystems.
• Build and maintain business-critical, high-frequency systems that process market data and generate analytics from large datasets.
• Contribute to platforms for data management, analytics, and trading functionality.
• Partner with product development, quantitative researchers, and technology teams to deliver trading capabilities and improve existing systems.
• Improve testing frameworks, development tools, and deployment processes for low-latency, high-throughput environments.
• Analyze and resolve complex technical challenges in line with industry practices and architectural standards.
• Apply knowledge of system architecture, data flows, and development standards to coding, testing, debugging, and implementation.
• Develop shared solutions for trading-platform monitoring, trade reconciliation, and application recovery.
• Assess and manage risk in business decisions, support compliance with applicable requirements and policies, exercise sound ethical judgment, and transparently escalate and report control issues.

• Backbone
• CI/CD
• Support
• Load Balancing
• Flow

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We are seeking a senior KDB+/Q specialist to help advance the strategic analytics backbone supporting our Equities Electronic Trading product. In coordination with our Equities Electronic Trading Technology team, this role contributes to technical implementation and innovation across analytics and data subsystems and serves as a subject matter expert. This is a permanent, full-time position serving a client in the banking sector, based in New York City, NY, or Jersey City, NJ, with three days per week in the office. The annual salary range is $180,000–$260,000.

last updated 42 week of 2026