About this role
Senior KDB+ Developer - Fixed Income Algorithmic Trading
Day Rate: £800-£900 per day
Location: London - Hybrid (3 days onsite)
Contract: 12 months, with potential for extension
IR35 Status: To be confirmed
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Senior KDB+ Developer to join the Fixed Income Algorithmic Trading technology team at a leading global investment bank.
You will work within a front-office environment supporting the development of pricing, trading, hedging and risk management algorithms across Fixed Income products.
This is a hands-on development role within a small specialist team, offering direct exposure to traders, short delivery cycles and the opportunity to provide technical direction to junior developers.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, test and deliver KDB+/q applications for Fixed Income algorithmic trading desks.
- Build and maintain real-time KDB+ processes, APIs and data schemas.
- Work directly with traders to understand requirements and deliver technology solutions.
- Support pricing, trading, hedging and risk management algorithms.
- Develop monitoring dashboards using Altair Panopticon.
- Perform statistical analysis of algorithm performance, market data and trading behaviour.
- Maintain and evolve existing KDB+ infrastructure.
- Develop compliance monitoring tools and provide third-line production support.
- Support software releases and ensure appropriate testing and deployment processes.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong commercial experience in KDB+/q development.
- Experience working in a front-office trading or quantitative finance environment.
- Strong understanding of Fixed Income products and markets.
- Experience with low-latency systems and real-time data processing.
- Strong Linux/UNIX operating system knowledge.
- Experience with performance monitoring and optimisation.
- Knowledge of software delivery processes, testing strategies and release management.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to engage directly with traders and technical stakeholders.
Desirable Skills
- Experience with the TorQ framework.
- Altair Panopticon dashboard development.
- Familiarity with qspec and qunit testing frameworks.
- GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, JFrog Artifactory and Rundeck Masterdeploy.
- Agile delivery methodologies.
- Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, Engineering or a related discipline.
What's on Offer?
- £800-£900 per day.
- Opportunity to work within a front-office Fixed Income algorithmic trading team.
- Direct interaction with traders and senior technology stakeholders.
- Interesting real-time KDB+ development across pricing and risk systems.
- Initial 12-month contract with potential for extension.
Apply
If you are a Senior KDB+ Developer with strong front-office Fixed Income or quantitative finance experience, we would like to hear from you.
Please submit your latest CV for immediate consideration.