KDB Developer

Avanciers are hiring experienced KDB Developers to build high-performance market data platforms. This role involves developing scalable real-time systems using KDB+, collaborating with trading and quantitative teams, and ensuring operational stability across complex data environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain core systems using KDB+ and Q.

• Build scalable, real-time processing pipelines using agile practices.

• Manage and store large multi-asset market datasets for real-time and historical use.

• Work closely with traders, quantitative analysts, and business partners to gather requirements and deliver solutions.

• Improve system resiliency, performance, and reliability of production KDB applications.

• Write high-quality production-grade code and participate in code reviews.

• Identify areas to automate and enhance application stability.

• Provide KDB data accessibility for cloud-native, research, and AI-based solutions.

Required Skills:

• Strong hands-on expertise in KDB+ and Q, with experience developing large-scale platforms.

• Deep understanding of KDB+ tick architecture, data modeling, and performance optimization.

• Experience managing large datasets, tuning queries, and building highly available KDB solutions.

• Solid knowledge of SDLC, CI/CD, security, resiliency and agile delivery.

• Proven experience in system design, development, testing, and production support.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with AWS compute and storage services, especially in cloud migration initiatives.

• Additional programming experience in Python (PyKX), Java, C, or C++.

• Basic knowledge of financial markets, electronic trading workflows, and market data.