Senior Data Engineer (KDB)

Type of contract: Employment contract

Salary range: 14600 - 22300 PLN gross

What will you do

Join the AI Markets development team and help build and enhance a critical analytics and reporting platform based on high-volume market data. You will design and optimize data processing solutions develop APIs and analytics capabilities and work closely with traders quants sales teams and product owners. The role offers the opportunity to work with one of the most advanced time-series technologies in the market while contributing to scalable low-latency solutions that support reporting analytics and AI-driven use cases.

Your tasks

• Develop and optimize KDB processes and queries for low-latency and high-throughput environments
• Build analytics and aggregation layers for downstream applications APIs and AI/ML models
• Expose data and analytics through APIs and services for business and technology stakeholders
• Collaborate with AI and data engineering teams to deliver structured datasets for model training and execution
• Implement monitoring alerting and capacity management across KDB environments
• Ensure resilience failover capabilities and disaster recovery strategies for critical services
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions together with traders quants sales teams and product owners
• Maintain compliance with operational risk model risk and data governance standards
• Participate in code reviews and contribute to development standards and best practices
• Support continuous improvement of platform capabilities and performance

Your skills

• Strong hands-on experience working with large-scale datasets in production environments
• Proven experience optimizing high-volume and low-latency data processing solutions
• Experience with data engineering and distributed data platforms
• Strong knowledge of Unix/Linux environments
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or Bash
• Strong knowledge of Git and version control practices
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployment processes
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in production environments
• Understanding of secure coding data protection and operational risk principles
• Experience within at least one trading domain such as FX Rates Credit Equities or Commodities
• Understanding of electronic trading pricing and risk concepts
• Ability to work closely with business and quantitative stakeholders

Nice to have

• Experience with KDB/q
• Experience supporting AI/ML platforms
• Experience building analytics platforms
• Knowledge of time-series databases and time-series analytics
• Experience with anomaly detection solutions
• Experience with signal generation for trading or client analytics

We offer

• Hybrid work in our clients office (Kraków) 8 days a month
• Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
• Benefit package tailored to your needs (medical sport lunch subsidy life insurance etc.)
• Online training and certifications
• Access to e-learning platform
• Social events