Cadogan Solutions
Senior KDB Engineer
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Front Office KDB+ Engineer – Equities
Hybrid | London - up to £180k + bonus
We are hiring an experienced Senior KDB+ Engineer to join a front-office Equities technology team supporting high-performance trading, market data and quantitative analytics platforms.
This is a hands-on engineering role working directly with traders, quantitative researchers and other front-office stakeholders. You will design and build scalable KDB+/q solutions used for real-time decision-making, historical analysis and trading strategy development.
Key responsibilities
- Design, develop and enhance high-performance KDB+/q applications for Equities trading.
- Build real-time and historical market data platforms capable of processing large volumes of tick data.
- Work directly with traders and quantitative teams to translate business requirements into production-quality solutions.
- Develop analytics, data models and APIs supporting trading, pricing, execution and risk workflows.
- Improve the performance, scalability and resilience of existing KDB+ systems.
- Investigate production issues and provide responsive front-office support.
- Integrate KDB+ platforms with upstream market data feeds and downstream trading applications.
- Contribute to architecture, testing, deployment and engineering standards across the platform.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve data quality.
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Essential experience
- Strong commercial experience developing production systems using KDB+/q.
- Experience working within a front-office Equities trading environment.
- Deep knowledge of time-series data, tick data and high-volume market data processing.
- Experience designing real-time tickerplants, real-time databases and historical databases.
- Strong understanding of KDB+ performance optimisation, memory management and query efficiency.
- Experience working directly with traders, quantitative researchers or trading desk stakeholders.
- Good understanding of Equities products and the electronic trading lifecycle.
- Strong Linux and scripting skills.
- Ability to diagnose complex production issues in a time-sensitive environment.
- Clear communication skills and the ability to operate effectively across technology and trading teams.
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Desirable experience
- Experience with cash equities, equity derivatives, electronic trading or systematic trading.
- Knowledge of order and execution data, transaction-cost analysis or market microstructure.
- Experience integrating KDB+ with Python, Java or C++ applications.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containerisation and modern deployment pipelines.
- Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka.
- Knowledge of FIX connectivity and electronic execution workflows.
The opportunity
You will join a business-critical front-office engineering team where your work will directly influence trading decisions and platform performance. The position offers close exposure to traders and quantitative researchers, ownership of technically demanding systems and the opportunity to build high-impact Equities technology in a fast-paced environment.
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