Senior KDB / q Software Engineer

Salary: £? - ? per year

• We require 10+ years of commercial KDB+/q development experience.
• We require strong experience in large-scale production environments.
• We require deep understanding of Prime Brokerage post-trade risk and margining.
• We require strong knowledge of time-series data modelling.
• We require experience with KDB ticker plant, RDB/HDB architectures, and performance optimisation.
• We require proven production support and troubleshooting experience.
• We require experience in Financing, Securities Lending, Prime Brokerage, or Risk.
• We require experience integrating KDB platforms with Java and/or Python applications.
• We value knowledge of event-driven and messaging architectures such as Kafka.
• We require excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• We value experience working directly with trading desks and quantitative teams.
• We value platform reliability engineering and monitoring expertise.
• We value exposure to enterprise-scale financial market data platforms.
• We value experience improving data quality frameworks and controls.
• We require a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related technical discipline.

• We need you to design, develop, and optimise KDB+/q solutions in large-scale production environments.
• We need you to enhance real-time market and business data ingestion, processing, and distribution capabilities.
• We need you to manage and optimise KDB ticker plant, RDB/HDB architectures, and historical data platforms.
• We need you to support data feed onboarding, integration, and data quality controls.
• We need you to troubleshoot complex production issues and provide Level 3 support for critical applications.
• We need you to work closely with business users, traders, quantitative analysts, and technology stakeholders.
• We need you to support platform reliability, monitoring, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• We need you to integrate KDB platforms with broader technology ecosystems, including Java, Python, and messaging technologies.

• Support
• Java
• Kafka
• Python

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We are seeking a Senior KDB+/q Software Engineer to join a leading financial services organisations high-performing engineering team. The role supports business-critical applications and data platforms for front-office and risk functions, including large-scale platforms that process and distribute high-volume market and business data. This is an initial 13-week contract, with an ASAP start, based at 30 Fenchurch Street in London on a hybrid basis and classified as Inside IR35. The posting headline lists a rate of £730 per day (Umbrella), while the contract details list £545 per day (Umbrella).

last updated 41 week of 2026