KDB Developer
Posted Today by Red Global
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Summary: The KDB+ Developer role is focused on designing, developing, and optimizing KDB+/q solutions for a major financial services client in London. The position requires extensive experience in KDB+ architecture and performance tuning, particularly with large-scale time-series datasets. The role is hybrid, requiring three days on-site work in Central London, and is contract-based for 12 months with potential extensions. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in financial services and relevant programming expertise.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and optimize KDB+/q solutions for real-time market data, analytics, and reporting platforms.
- Utilize strong experience with KDB+ architecture and performance tuning.
- Work with large-scale time-series datasets.
Key Skills:
- 8+ years of commercial KDB+ development experience.
- Strong expertise in q programming.
- Experience with TP, RDB, and HDB architectures.
- Strong understanding of time-series databases and market data environments.
- Experience optimizing performance, latency, and scalability.
- Linux/Unix experience including shell scripting.
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
- Investment Banking or Trading experience (desirable).
- Equities, FX, Futures, or Derivatives exposure (desirable).
- Kafka or Solace experience (desirable).
- CI/CD and DevOps tooling knowledge (desirable).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
KDB+ Developer | London | Hybrid
Location: Central London (3 days onsite)
Contract Length: 12 Months + Extensions
Start: ASAP
Rate: Inside IR35
Interview Process: 2 Stages
We're currently looking for an experienced KDB+ Developer to join a major financial services client in London.
You'll be responsible for designing, developing and optimising KDB+/q solutions supporting real-time market data, analytics and reporting platforms. The role requires strong experience with KDB+ architecture, performance tuning and large-scale time-series datasets.
Required Experience
- 8+ years of commercial KDB+ development experience
- Strong expertise in q programming
- Experience with TP, RDB and HDB architectures
- Strong understanding of time-series databases and market data environments
- Experience optimising performance, latency and scalability
- Linux/Unix experience including shell scripting
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments
Desirable
- Investment Banking or Trading experience
- Equities, FX, Futures or Derivatives exposure
- Kafka or Solace experience
- CI/CD and DevOps tooling knowledge
Reference
CR/134979_1781518738
Date
15 Jun 2026