21 Oct
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Luxoft
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Banana Shire
21 Oct
Luxoft
Banana Shire
?Become a Luxoft employee? Our
Benefits:
?Paid Referrals ?Equipment: laptop and monitor ?Private Medical & Dental care & Life Insurance covered ?? ♀️ MyBenefit program (sports card, well-being program etc.) ? Internal Mobility program
- possibility of rotation between projects, locations, accounts ? LuxTalent platform (webinars, training, courses) ...and more Project Description: We are seeking an experienced Senior KDB+ Developer to design, develop and optimize high performance data platforms built on kdb+. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in kdb+ tick architecture, performance tuning at scale and close collaboration with business stakeholder
- particularly within Risk functions
- to deliver robust, efficient and maintainable solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design, develop and maintain kdb+ tick systems with strong understanding of data organization, schema design and the performance implications of different architectural approaches.
- Build and operate solutions handling large scale, high frequency datasets, ensuring low latency, high throughput and efficient memory usage.
- Analyze and optimize q queries, data models and ingestion pipelines for both real time and historical workloads.
- Collaborate closely with Risk function teams to translate business requirements into efficient, scalable and performant code.
- Drive continuous improvement through refactoring, performance benchmarking and adoption of best practices
- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level developers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, code quality and knowledge sharing.
- Participate in design reviews,
production support and root cause analysis of complex system issues.
- Work collaboratively within an Agile or iterative delivery environment, contributing to design, implementation, testing and release phases. Mandatory Skills Description:
- 8+ years of hands on experience in kdb+ development in a production environment.
- Strong expertise in q language including: table design (splayed, partitioned, segmented), In memory vs on disk trade offs, efficient joins, aggregation and windowed analytics
- Deep understanding of kdb+ tick architecture including ticker plant, RDB, HDB nd associated patterns
- Proven experience working with large datasets and optimising queries for performance and scalability
- Strong background in Unix/Linux environments, including shell scripting for automation, monitoring and operational tooling
- Solid understanding of software delivery processes and methodologies (Agile, CI/CD, Version control, release)
- Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, demonstrating systematic reasoning and problem solving skills Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
- Knowledge of inter process communication mechanism in kdb+ and integration with external systems
- Experience tuning kdb+ systems for low-latency and high availability
- Familiarity with data quality checks, validation frameworks and operational resilience patterns
- Exposure to financial markets data (market data, trading, risk, post-trade workflows, equity asset class)
- passion for writing clean, effective and well-structured code Languages: English: C1 Advanced
📌 Senior KDB+ Developer (Banana Shire)
🏢 Luxoft
📍 Banana Shire