KDB+ Team Lead (VP) & Developers (Associate) – Investment Banking recruitment

The role is for a developer to work in a newly formed team responsible for many of the KX systems used in Equities.

This is a pan-equities role, with business exposure at the highest level. Components such as ticker plants, order and execution services are used by many of the firm’s automated and manual trading systems.
Other components provide analytics to the firm’s internal and external analytics systems, such as TradeSpex.
The group’s responsibilities also include a new state-of-the-art system providing position and risk management globally.
The team will initially be composed of 8 developers in Europe, and will take the leading role in global development strategy in this area.

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required

Q (KX development tools). They should be an expert in Kdb+ Q. Preferably with some experience of K.
They should have very good understanding of software development best practices, and how to use them to achieve timely delivery without compromising quality.
They should be highly self-motivated and able to work autonomously as well as on collaborative development efforts.
They should have experience building high-availability, mission critical software and be prepared to provide support if and when it is needed.
They should be comfortable interacting directly with all levels of business user and stakeholder.
They should have a very good understanding of the tools, frameworks, languages, principles and best practices required for the design and implementation of usable, reliable and maintainable large scale applications.
They should be very comfortable working in a unix-based development environment, and using unix tools and scripts to configure build/deployment environments.
They should enjoy the challenge of making enhancements to large existing applications in addition to green-field development.

Desirable

Equities
Java - a thorough understanding of the Java language and API’s, as well as the frameworks and tools commonly used in Java development.

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