kdb+ Engineer

Data Intellect

$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of hands-on kdb+ development experience
  • Solid understanding of q language and time-series data structures
  • Experience working in Unix/Linux environments
  • Strong logical thinking and problem-solving skills
  • Comfortable working independently and collaboratively within a team
  • Excellent client-facing communication skills
  • Experience in Capital Markets or Investment Banking is advantageous

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with business users to define new application requirements
  • Develop, test and maintain clean, performant code for client applications
  • Support project delivery alongside Project Managers and Senior Engineers
  • Work as part of a close-knit team to deliver solutions on time and on budget
  • Analyse large-scale time-series data and generate actionable reports
  • Mentor junior developers and contribute to a culture of continuous learning

Benefits

  • Hybrid & flexible working - balance your time between home and our global offices
  • Global opportunities - work with clients in major financial hubs
  • Continuous learning - day one access to paid training and certifications
  • Clear progression pathways - biannual promotions and monthly 1:1s
  • Healthcare & wellbeing - provider dependent on region
  • Flexible, increasing holiday allowance
  • Generous referral bonuses and exciting social events
Full Job Description
Job Description

What You'll Be Doing
  • Collaborating with business users to define new application requirements.
  • Developing, testing and maintainingclean, performantcode for client applications.
  • Supporting project delivery alongside Project Managers and Senior Engineers.
  • Working as part of a close-knit team to deliver solutions on time and on budget.
  • Analysing large-scale time-series data and generating actionable reports.
  • Mentoring junior developers and contributing to a culture of continuous learning.


Qualifications

What You Bring
  • 2+ years of hands-on kdb+ development experience.
  • Solid understanding of q language and time-series data structures.
  • Experience working in Unix/Linux environments.
  • Strong logical thinking and problem-solving skills.
  • Familiarity with software development methodologies and the SDLC.
  • Comfortable working independently and collaboratively within a team.
  • Excellent client-facing communication skills.
  • Experience in Capital Markets or Investment Banking is advantageous

Bonus Skills (Not Required):
  • Experience with AI tooling (Claude, Co-Pilot)
  • Knowledge of Python, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), or other time-series databases.
  • Exposure to project leadership or people management.

Contribution to internal tools, documentation, community initiatives.

Additional Information

Why Join Data Intellect?
  • Hybrid & flexible working - balance your time between home and our global offices.
  • Global opportunities - work with clients in London, New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Toronto and beyond.
  • Continuous learning - day one access to paid training, certifications and leadership development.
  • Clear progression pathways - biannual promotion cycles and monthly 1:1s to excel your career growth and development.
  • Healthcare & wellbeing - provider dependent on region.
  • Flexible, increasing holiday allowance - option to work bank holidays providing greater flexibility in holiday usage
  • Generous referral bonuses, exciting social events and so much more - we work hard and celebrate harder.

Data Intellect is a specialist data and technology consultancy with deep expertise in capital markets. We build high-performance systems that power trading, risk and analytics for some of the world's most demanding clients. Our expertise spans kdb+, AI, data engineering, regulatory technology and enterprise platforms. We're growing, fast!

Ready to excel your kdb+ career with us?

Challenge Accepted. Apply now.

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