KDB+ Developer
Job Location:
Jersey, NJ - USA
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Job Summary
KDB Developer
Location: Jersey City NJ (Hybrid 3 Days Onsite / 2 Days Remote)
Duration: 1 Year Contract
Interview: Video Interview (Potential In-Person Team Meeting Before Offer)
Client Note:
- Local and LinkedIn with location
- Banking / Capital Markets domain experience preferred
- Strong KDB and Q language expertise required
- Electronic Trading or Market Making experience is highly preferred
- Looking for a senior-level developer capable of driving architecture and delivery initiatives
About the Role:
Our client is undergoing a multi-year transformation initiative to build a next-generation global trading platform across execution prime brokerage clearing and cross-product margining. The technology landscape is being modernized to deliver world-class performance resiliency market connectivity and post-trade processing capabilities.
The KDB Developer will play a key role in building and supporting the strategic analytics backbone for an Equities Electronic Trading platform. This position requires deep expertise in KDB low-latency trading systems market data processing and large-scale analytics platforms.
Required Skills:
- 5 years of KDB Development experience
- Strong expertise with Q Programming Language
- Experience scaling and load-balancing KDB applications
- High-Availability and Resilient System Architecture experience
- Query Performance Tuning and Optimization on large datasets
- Real-Time Market Data Processing
- Low-Latency Trading Systems Development
- Data Analytics Platform Development
- Strong software engineering and troubleshooting skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Others:
- Electronic Trading platform experience
- Market Making systems experience
- FIX Protocol experience
- Market Data and Order Data expertise
- Capital Markets or Investment Banking experience
- Trade Lifecycle knowledge
- Equities Trading domain experience
- Experience supporting global trading platforms
Education:
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience required
- Masters Degree preferred
