KDB+ Developer (Equities Analytics)

Role: KDB+ Developer (Equities Analytics)

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Visa: Any Visa

Duration: 12+ Months

MOI: Video + F2F

Domain: Capital Markets / Electronic Trading / Equities Analytics

Job Description:

Our client is seeking an experienced KDB+ Developer to support a large-scale transformation initiative focused on building a next-generation global trading platform across execution, prime brokerage, clearing, and margining services. This role will be responsible for designing, developing, and supporting a strategic analytics platform for Equities Electronic Trading, delivering high-performance and highly resilient solutions that process large-scale market data.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain KDB+/Q-based applications supporting electronic trading platforms.
• Build scalable, low-latency systems capable of processing high volumes of market and order data.
• Optimize query performance across large datasets ranging from terabytes to petabytes.
• Implement high-availability, fault-tolerant, and load-balanced KDB+ environments.
• Collaborate with trading technology, infrastructure, and business teams to deliver strategic enhancements.
• Analyze and resolve complex technical and business challenges.
• Establish best practices for coding, testing, deployment, and system monitoring.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to developers and analysts.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise technology standards, security requirements, and regulatory policies.
• Support integration across trading platforms, analytics systems, and market connectivity solutions.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with KDB+ and Q programming language.
• Strong experience building and supporting scalable KDB+ applications.
• Experience implementing load balancing and high-availability solutions within KDB+ environments.
• Expertise in performance tuning and query optimization for large-scale datasets.
• Solid understanding of market data, order flow, and electronic trading systems.
• Knowledge of financial messaging protocols such as FIX.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in Electronic Trading, Algorithmic Trading, or Market Making environments.
• Exposure to Equities Trading platforms and analytics systems.
• Experience working within investment banking or capital markets organizations.
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or related field preferred.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field required.
• Master's Degree preferred.

Required Skills:

• KDB+
• Q Language
• Market Data Processing
• Electronic Trading Systems
• FIX Protocol
• Query Performance Optimization
• High Availability Architecture
• Load Balancing
• Data Analytics
• Capital Markets / Equities Trading