Senior Developer Advocate

KX
London, UK
10 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
£64,023.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Database Queries Python (Programming Language) Search Technologies Software Application Programming Kubernetes Apache Kafka Free and Open-Source Software Video Streaming

Job description

As a Developer Advocate, your mission is to help developers successfully adopt KX by creating technical content and experiences that demonstrate how our platform solves real capital markets problems. You’ll translate complex technology into practical guidance while helping Product and Engineering continuously improve developer experience.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in Developer Relations, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or a similar technical customer-facing role.
  • Strong proficiency with q/kdb+ and experience building applications that process high-performance time-series data.
  • Strong Python skills (PyKX experience is a plus).
  • Strong SQL skills.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
  • Experience with containers and Kubernetes.
  • Deep understanding of capital markets workflows including market data, electronic trading, quantitative research, market structure, or trading technology.
  • Experience creating technical content including demos, tutorials, sample applications, blogs, videos, presentations, or developer documentation.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to developers with varying levels of experience.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience building developer communities through conferences, meetups, workshops, or open-source contributions.
  • Experience with AI developer workflows, MCP, RAG, vector search, GPU acceleration, or modern AI development frameworks.
  • Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Kafka.

About the company

Senior Developer Advocate KX software powers the time-aware data-driven decisions that enable fast-moving companies to outpace competitors, realizing the full potential of their AI investments. The KX platform delivers transformational value by addressing data challenges related to completeness, timeliness and efficiency, ensuring companies understand change over time and can achieve faster, more accurate insights at any scale, cost-effectively.

KX is essential to the operations of the world’s top investment banks, aerospace and defence, high-tech manufacturing, healthcare and life sciences, automotive and fleet telematics organizations. The company has established offices and a robust customer base across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

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