A multi-strategy platform is hiring a permanent KDB+/q Developer to build and scale the tick-data and analytics infrastructure supporting its systematic pods. This is a hands-on role for a q engineer who wants to work at the data heart of a tier-one platform.
The Role:
You will own the KDB+/q layer that captures, stores and serves market data to systematic PMs and researchers across the platform, building the pipelines and query tooling that let pods research and deploy faster.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain KDB+/q databases for real-time and historical market data
- Develop high-performance q analytics and query interfaces for research and trading teams
- Engineer resilient data-capture pipelines across US and global markets
- Support pod onboarding with clean, well-documented data access
- Optimise storage, partitioning and query performance at scale
- Collaborate with quant developers on research-to-production data workflows
Required Experience & Qualifications:
- 3–8 years of KDB+/q development in a systematic trading, hedge fund or prop environment
- Strong q programming and tick-data schema design
- Experience with real-time capture and large historical databases
- Solid Linux and data-engineering background
- Python a plus
What We Offer:
- Top-of-market compensation for KDB+/q specialists
- Direct impact across multiple systematic pods
- World-class data and technology infrastructure