Senior KDB+ Engineer
12 month contract
50-80 K HKD per month (depending on seniority/experience)
Location: Hong Kong (No Visa Sponsorship)
Join a Tier-1 Financial institution’s electronic trading desk as a Senior KDB+ Engineer. You will be part of a team responsible for the data platform used by Quants and Traders for real-time risk, pricing, and backtesting. This is a high-availability environment with multiple production releases per day and a massive global data footprint.
Technical Stack & Responsibilities
Design and optimize scalable KDB+ tick architectures (TP, RDB, HDB) and data access layers.
Write optimized, vectorized q code to handle multi-terabyte daily data ingestion.
Full ownership of the SDLC—TDD/BDD, build automation, and CI/CD are core to the workflow.
Partner with Quants and e Tech teams to build APIs and analytics for automated trading.
Requirements
Deep knowledge of q and experience managing large-scale HDBs.
Solid grasp of market data, trade lifecycles, and basic statistics.
Strong focus on Test-Driven Development and specification-based testing.
Experience with build/deployment automation and performance monitoring.
Competency in a second language (Python, Java, etc.) is a plus.
