KDB Developer

Overview

On Site
Full Time

Skills

Management
Finance
Real-time
Communication
Development Testing
Production Support
Analytics
Testing
Application Development
RDB
Onboarding
Amazon Web Services
Performance Tuning
Database
API
Collaboration
Writing
Documentation

Job Details

Proven experience managing large financial databases and datasets consisting of real-time and historical data and excellent communication skills are required, as you'll be in a fast-paced environment working hands-on closely with other developers, QA and production support teams.

The successful candidate will be expected to create innovative analytics solutions that advance the business; and will be improving the design, analytics, development, coding, testing and application programming that goes into creating high quality software and new products.

Principal Responsibilities

Standing up a kdb tick database platform
Has built out a kdb ecosystem in a greenfield new build capacity.
Familiarity with setting up the full tickerplant to rdb to hdb pipeline
Onboarding and prioritizing basic utility data to Tick Database
Good understanding of AWS and related components.
Experience writing Q based queries
Performance optimization and fine tuning of KDB database
Experience using Kx's Insights product which has some paradigms and utilities for this out of the box (Familiarity with this is preferred, or at least a desire to learn)

Mange and manipulate large historical data sets
Implement reusable Gateway functionality
Implement functionality based on defined API
Use and implement library-grade software
Automating quality checks across transactional, market and reference datasets
Ensure clean and efficient coding practices and adherence to industry best practices
Collaborate with traders, quants, and other developers to design and implement efficient and robust solutions
Writing documentation
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