Senior KDB Developer

Overview

As a Senior KDB+ Developer in Talan’s front-office technology team, you will design and evolve pricing, trading, hedging and risk management solutions for Fixed Income. You will work closely with traders and quantitative specialists to deliver real-time analytics and rapid releases in a fast-paced environment. You’ll provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and ensure robust, governance-aligned software delivery. This role blends deep KDB+ expertise with business-facing communication to shape trading tech at scale.

Responsibilities

• Partner with traders and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions
• Design, develop, test, and deploy improvements to Fixed Income algo trading and risk platforms
• Build and maintain high-performance real-time KDB+ processes, schemas and APIs
• Develop solutions for trading surveillance, compliance monitoring and algorithm oversight
• Create monitoring and visualisation dashboards using Altair Panopticon where appropriate
• Perform ad hoc statistical analysis of algorithm performance, market data and client activity
• Support maintenance, optimisation and evolution of KDB+ infrastructure and applications
• Contribute to release management and governance controls
• Provide technical guidance to junior developers and promote best practices
• Deliver third-line support and expertise to production and operations teams

Key requirements

• Extensive experience with KDB+/q in front-office or electronic trading
• Strong software engineering principles (design, testing, delivery)
• Experience with real-time data processing systems
• Good UNIX/Linux knowledge
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and debugging skills
• Excellent communication with traders and stakeholders
• Solid understanding of Fixed Income products, electronic trading, market data or quantitative finance

• Communication
• Analytical thinking
• Mentoring
• KDB+/q
• UNIX/Linux
• Real-time data processing

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