Alenia Consulting UK
Senior KDB+ Developer – Fixed Income / Algorithmic Trading
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Senior KDB+ Developer – Fixed Income / Algorithmic Trading
📍 London, UK
We are looking for a Senior KDB+ Developer to join a Fixed Income Algorithmic Trading IT team in London.
You will work in a Front Office environment, closely with traders and IT teams, on solutions supporting pricing, trading, hedging and risk management algorithms for Fixed Income products. The role sits within a small KDB+ development team with short delivery cycles and direct interaction with the trading desk.
Your responsibilities
- Design, develop, test and deliver KDB+ applications and real-time processes supporting Algo Trading.
- Work directly with traders to understand business and technical requirements.
- Design APIs and data schemas for trading applications.
- Develop and maintain KDB+ data and streaming solutions.
- Perform statistical analysis of algorithm performance, market data and client behaviour.
- Contribute to the monitoring and deployment of new or modified trading algorithms.
- Develop compliance monitoring tools.
- Design dashboards using Altair Panopticon.
- Provide technical guidance to junior developers and 3rd-line support to Production Support teams.
- Participate when required in software releases outside standard working hours.
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What we’re looking for
Essential:
- Strong hands-on experience with Q / KDB+
- Experience with real-time / low-latency systems
- Strong Linux / UNIX knowledge
- Experience with performance monitoring
- Previous experience in a Front Office-facing environment
- Understanding of software delivery processes and test strategies
- Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or Engineering
- Strong communication and analytical/problem-solving skills
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Nice to have:
- Fixed Income / quantitative finance knowledge
- TorQ framework for KDB+
- Altair Panopticon
- qspec / qunit
- GitLab & GitLab CI/CD
- JFrog Artifactory
- Rundeck / Masterdeploy
- Agile methodologies
- Postgraduate studies in advanced computing, mathematics or statistics
Interested?
If you are an experienced KDB+ Developer looking to work close to the trading desk in a fast-paced Fixed Income environment, we’d like to hear from you.
📩 Apply directly or contact me via LinkedIn for more information.
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