Job Description :
BR 85-90 W2
KDB Developer
Location - New York
Information Technology (IT)
City: New York
Job Type: Contract- Hire
Length: 6month
Role
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 work 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
maintaining and enhancing 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.