Senior KBD Engineer
12 hours ago
Belfast
🏦 Senior KDB Engineer - Global Investment Bank 📍 Belfast Recruiting for the FICC Low Latency Trading technology team at a leading global investment bank with operations across Toronto, London, Dublin, and New York. About the firm: Major Tier 1 investment bank with a significant presence in Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities markets. Their electronic trading platforms handle critical client pricing and trading activities globally, utilizing cutting-edge low latency technology. The role: Join a team building strategic low latency e-trading applications covering pricing, order execution, quoting solutions, automated trading, risk management, and data analytics. These systems are mission-critical for front office quants, traders, and enterprise risk. What you'll do: • Build and maintain Kdb/q analytics and data pipelines for low latency trading, • Work on market data processing, storage and real-time analytics, • Design frameworks, libraries and APIs for front office systems, • Partner closely with quants and traders on pricing and execution platforms, • Support dealer-to-dealer and dealer-to-client trading solutions, • Apply DevOps practices to highly scalable trading infrastructure You have: ✅ 8-10 years in finance technology (minimum 5 considered) ✅ Deep Kdb/q expertise (architecture, analytics, market data) ✅ Capital markets knowledge - ideally eTrading experience ✅ Experience working directly with front office/business teams ✅ Strong API and framework design skills ✅ Test-driven development and agile methodologies Highly valued: • FX, Fixed Income, or Commodities experience, • Surveillance platform experience, • Java or Python programming, • Linux/shell scripting and DevOps tooling, • Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), • Messaging protocols (gRPC) The team: Global, cross-functional team spanning multiple financial centers. Strong ownership culture, collaborative environment, and focus on delivering scalable solutions for latency-sensitive trading. Interested in low latency FICC technology? Apply below #KDB #KdbQ #LowLatency #FICC #FXTrading #FixedIncome #TradingTechnology #Belfast #FinTech #InvestmentBanking #MarketData