KDB developer
Virtusa
Overview
As a Senior KDB Developer you will design and optimize high-performance market data solutions, focusing on real-time processing, time-series analytics, and production support. You will work with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, low-latency applications for trading, analytics, and risk management. The role combines hands-on development with production stabilization and architectural input. You’ll engage with quants, analysts, and engineers to ensure data integrity and system reliability while advancing the platform’s capabilities.
Responsibilities- Design, develop, and maintain kdb+/q applications for real-time and historical data processing
- Build scalable, low-latency data pipelines for market data, trading, analytics, and risk systems
- Optimize q frameworks, databases, and applications for performance and reliability
- Provide Tier 2 production support, including debugging, log analysis, and troubleshooting
- Collaborate with business users, quants, analysts, and engineering teams to gather requirements
- Ensure data integrity, system stability, and high availability across platforms
- Participate in code reviews, performance tuning, and best practice implementation
- Contribute to system architecture and technical design discussions
- Strong hands-on experience with kdb+ / q programming
- Experience with real-time streaming and time-series data
- Understanding of market data systems, trading platforms, or financial analytics
- Experience building high-performance and low-latency applications
- Solid knowledge of Linux/Unix environments and shell scripting
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and production support experience
- Familiarity with distributed systems and large-scale data processing
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities
- collaboration
- analytical thinking
- problem-solving
- kdb+/q
- real-time streaming
- time-series data
Reference: WJ-747_30933523