Senior Developer- KDB / eTrading / eFX / London / Hybrid
GCS Ltd
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
yesterday
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 177KJob location
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
Tech stack
API
Build Automation
Behavior-Driven Development
Data Security
Systems Development Life Cycle
Job description
- Work closely with quants and electronic tech team in implementing fit-for-purpose solutions
- Contribute to designing and architecting tick, data access, feeds and scalable analytic solutions
- Implement API-based functionality
- Contribute to and expand common components, tools and APIs
- Focus on automation around metrics, builds and testing
Requirements
- Test-Driven / Behaviour-Driven Development with emphasis on specification-based testing
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with demonstrable knowledge of market data, trade data and basic statistical concepts
- Ability to query, analyse and combine vast amounts of data
- Team player with excellent communication skills
- In depth-Understanding of q language structures and writing performant code
- Familiar with kdb tick architecture
- Ability to adjust to a dynamic environment
- Appreciates differences in style or perspective and uses differences to add value to decisions
- Exposure to all aspects of SDLC, including build automation, deployment and support
- Experience in a second programming language (whether oo or functional) greatly valued
