Senior KBD Engineer
🏦 Senior KDB Engineer - Global Investment Bank 📍 Belfast
Recruiting for the FICC Low Latency Trading technology team at a leading global investment bank with operations across Toronto, London, Dublin, and New York.
About the firm: Major Tier 1 investment bank with a significant presence in Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities markets. Their electronic trading platforms handle critical client pricing and trading activities globally, utilizing cutting-edge low latency technology.
The role: Join a team building strategic low latency e-trading applications covering pricing, order execution, quoting solutions, automated trading, risk management, and data analytics. These systems are mission-critical for front office quants, traders, and enterprise risk.
What you'll do:
- Build and maintain Kdb/q analytics and data pipelines for low latency trading
- Work on market data processing, storage and real-time analytics
- Design frameworks, libraries and APIs for front office systems
- Partner closely with quants and traders on pricing and execution platforms
- Support dealer-to-dealer and dealer-to-client trading solutions
- Apply DevOps practices to highly scalable trading infrastructure
You have:
✅ 8-10 years in finance technology (minimum 5 considered)
✅ Deep Kdb/q expertise (architecture, analytics, market data)
✅ Capital markets knowledge - ideally eTrading experience
✅ Experience working directly with front office/business teams
✅ Strong API and framework design skills
✅ Test-driven development and agile methodologies
Highly valued:
- FX, Fixed Income, or Commodities experience
- Surveillance platform experience
- Java or Python programming
- Linux/shell scripting and DevOps tooling
- Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Messaging protocols (gRPC)
The team: Global, cross-functional team spanning multiple financial centers. Strong ownership culture, collaborative environment, and focus on delivering scalable solutions for latency-sensitive trading.
Interested in low latency FICC technology? Apply below
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