Senior KDB Developer
madisondavisNew York (NY)
About the role
A global financial-services organization is seeking a Senior KDB Developer to join a technology organization supporting real-time Equities data and analytics. This position will engineer high-performance platforms responsible for processing large volumes of real-time and historical financial data. The engineer will work closely with trading, quantitative, engineering, QA, and production teams while maintaining substantial hands-on ownership of KDB+/Q development. The ideal candidate combines deep KDB/Q expertise with experience building real-time, low-latency financial data systems.
Responsibilities:
Design and develop low-latency KDB+/Q platforms for real-time financial data. Build and optimize streaming pipelines supporting market, ticker, order, and execution data. Develop scalable tickerplant, RDB, and HDB architectures. Design time-series models and high-performance query frameworks. Optimize platform latency, throughput, reliability, and query performance. Develop APIs and reusable components for trading and analytics applications. Implement monitoring and automated data-quality controls. Troubleshoot complex real-time data and production issues.
Role Requirements:
Extensive hands-on KDB+/Q engineering experience. Strong experience developing real-time data-processing systems. Experience working in low-latency environments. Financial-services experience. Experience with large-scale market, trading, transactional, or time-series datasets. Strong Linux/Unix skills. Working knowledge of Python or Java. Strong understanding of time-series architecture and streaming data. Ability to work directly with technical and front-office stakeholders. Ability to work onsite in New York City three days per week.
Nice to Have:
Electronic or algorithmic trading experience. Equities experience. Market microstructure knowledge. AWS exposure. Authentication and entitlement experience.
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