Senior KDB+ Developer - Fixed Income Trading

About the role

Talan is looking for an experienced Senior KDB+ Developer to join a front-office technology team in London supporting Fixed Income electronic and algorithmic trading. You will work with traders, quantitative specialists and technology teams to build pricing, trading, hedging and risk management solutions for Fixed Income products, in a fast-paced environment with a small, collaborative KDB+ team. The role is permanent or contract depending on engagement, with hybrid working of three days per week onsite.

Key responsibilities

• Work with traders and stakeholders to understand business needs and deliver technical solutions.
• Design, develop, test and deploy enhancements to Fixed Income algorithmic trading and risk management platforms.
• Build and maintain high-performance real-time KDB+ processes, schemas and APIs.
• Develop solutions for trading surveillance, compliance monitoring and algorithm oversight.
• Create monitoring and visualisation dashboards using Altair Panopticon where appropriate.
• Perform ad hoc statistical and quantitative analysis of trading algorithms, market data and client activity.
• Maintain and evolve KDB+ infrastructure and applications, and contribute to release management with robust controls.
• Mentor junior developers and provide third-line support to production and operations teams.

Required profile

• Extensive commercial experience developing with KDB+ / q in a front-office or electronic trading environment.
• Strong understanding of software engineering principles, including design, testing and delivery.
• Experience building real-time data processing systems.
• Solid understanding of Fixed Income products, electronic trading, market data or quantitative finance.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working with traders and business stakeholders.

Required skills

• KDB+ / q
• UNIX/Linux
• Altair Panopticon (desirable)
• qSpec, qUnit or similar automated testing frameworks (desirable)
• Knowledge of the TorQ framework (desirable)