KDB Developer/KDB+ Engineer London/Glasgow/Bournemouth ( Onsite 5 days per week) Experience in KDB is the main criteria for qualification. Overview: We are seeking a KDB+/q Developer to design, build, and optimize high-performance time-series data systems for Real Time analytics and trading applications. Responsibilities: Develop and maintain kdb+/… q applications, including tickerplants, RDBs, and HDBs. Build Real Time and historical market data pipelines. Optimize queries and systems for low latency and high throughput. Integrate kdb+ with internal platforms, APIs, and market data feeds. Troubleshoot production issues and ensure data quality and system reliability. Collaborate with quants, traders, and engineering teams. Requirements: Strong proficiency in kdb+/ More ❯
The Kdb database, is widely used in the financial services industry, particularly by major investment banks, for high-speed, Real Time data processing and analytics. Kdb+ is a high-performance, column-based, in-memory database optimized for time-series data analysis, commonly used in financial services for handling large Real Time and historical datasets. It is developed and uses … the q programming language, which is designed for high-speed data manipulation. Primary Use Cases Kdb+ is optimized as a high-performance time-series database, making it ideal for the demanding, data-intensive environments within capital markets. Common applications include: High-Frequency Trading (HFT): Processing massive volumes of market data (trades and quotes) in milliseconds to enable rapid, automated … cases: Widely adopted by major financial institutions for high-frequency trading, Real Time analytics, and historical data storage and retrieval. Kdb Insights Database: A more recent, distributed version of kdb+ designed for scalability with features like scalable query routing and temporal storage tiering. More ❯
