Are you interested in developing complex systems with both high throughput and low latency requirements? Are you interested in helping quants with complex analytics? Do you want a role where you can take responsibility for the full development cycle – from requirement gathering to delivery of the end product?

We're looking for someone like that, to help us

• translate business requirements into designs for solutions
• implement solutions and develop software components as defined by the software development life cycle (SDLC)
• test and integrate components into larger subsystems
• produce secure, stable, and scalable code
• collaborate with other global IT teams and business sponsors
• solve problems that vary from high volume, low latency scalable architecture to user analytics

Your team

The KDB team is global and works closely with our key business sponsors; Cash Quant and Quant Trading. Your location will be in New York working primarily on KDB in Q with some Java components.

Your experience and skills

You can demonstrate that you can contribute to the design and technical direction of the product suite as well as maintain and enhance it to meet future business requirements. This role will focus on the build-out of our strategic Equities Tick and Transaction Cost Analysis systems

You are

• a proficient Q developer
• comfortable with building out significantly sized KDB systems and infrastructure
• able to develop on a Unix and/or Linux environment
• able to core Java and ideally Java web development
• comfortable working closely with the business and have the ability to quickly understand the products and services they offer
• able to demonstrate market data knowledge across the equities asset class
• In addition, you will need very strong communication skills