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KDB Developer

Maharashtra, India (On-site)

KDB Developer

1 Month ago • 4 Years + • DevOps

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Job Description

This role at a major Australian bank involves developing low-latency FI/FX trading systems for their Institutional domain. You'll collaborate with traders, quantitative analysts, and engineers to build and deploy solutions using KDB/q. Responsibilities include enabling continuous delivery, working in collaborative teams, implementing best practices, and providing platform support. The position requires strong KDB/q skills, understanding of q internals, UNIX/Linux expertise, and knowledge of software design methodologies. The team focuses on electronic market making, aggregation, and algorithmic trading within the FX and FI space.

Must have:

4+ years KDB/q development experience in finance
Strong KDB/q skills (tp, rdb, hdb, tick data)
UNIX/Linux knowledge and shell scripting
Software design methodologies & functional principles
Jira/Crucible, BitBucket, CI/CD tools

Good to have:

Team leadership experience
FX or FI experience
Java/Python/R
High-frequency trading experience

Project description

This project is for one of the largest Australian bank for their Institutional domain that provides Best-in-Class Foreign Exchange Services to their customers by empowering staff to build World-class products. The Team is responsible for FX and FI electronic market making, aggregation, and algorithmic trading.
It will give an opportunity to work with traders, quantitative analysts, java engineers, analysts, and testers to deliver low-latency FI/FX trading systems.

Responsibilities

Work with traders, quantitative analysts, java engineers, analysts, and testers to deliver low-latency FI/FX trading systems

Enable continuous delivery practices to increase delivery speed

Work in collaborative teams to build innovative solutions

Utilise tools and practices to build, verify, and deploy solutions in the most efficient ways, enhancing tech division capabilities

Implement a culture within the Tribe and the Chapter, encouraging best practices around reviews, quality and documentation

Contribute to Engineering communities, meetups, and conferences to promote technology development culture and practices

Provide ongoing support for platforms as required e.g. problem and incident management

Create estimates and continuously review demand within the individual Squads/teams

May create, understand, and monitor application metrics

Skills

Must have

4+ years of hands on experience in Development using q/KDB / R/ Python in financial domain.

Strong KDB/q skills with a thorough understanding of q internals such as tp, rdb, hdb, and tick data storage.

Knowledge of interaction between application code, operating system, and hardware.

Solid knowledge of the UNIX/Linux environment and shell scripting.

In-depth knowledge and experience in software design methodologies, software design patterns, and functional design and principles

Development toolkits such as Jira/Crucible, and BitBucket & Familiarity with continuous integration and build Tools such as Team City/Hudson / Bamboo & build tools like Maven / Gradle.

Nice to have

Experience leading team of developers

Experience in Markets, FX or FI

Java/ Python/R

Quantitative development experience in high frequency electronic market making/algorithmic trading

Other

Languages

English: C2 Proficient

Seniority

Regular

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Luxoft

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Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company (NYSE: DXC), is a digital strategy and software engineering firm providing bespoke technology solutions that drive business change for customers the world over. Acquired by U.S. company DXC Technology in 2019, Luxoft is a global operation in 44 cities and 21 countries with an international, agile workforce of nearly 18,000 people. It combines a unique blend of engineering excellence and deep industry expertise, helping over 425 global clients innovate in the areas of automotive, financial services, travel and hospitality, healthcare, life sciences, media and telecommunications.

DXC Technology is a leading Fortune 500 IT services company which helps global companies run their mission critical systems. Together, DXC and Luxoft offer a differentiated customer-value proposition for digital transformation by combining Luxoft’s front-end digital capabilities with DXC’s expertise in IT modernization and integration. Follow our profile for regular updates and insights into technology and business needs.