KDB developer

As a Senior KDB Developer at Virtusa, you design and optimize high-performance market data solutions using kdb+/q for real-time and historical processing. You will build scalable, low-latency data pipelines and collaborate with quants, analysts, and engineers to support trading, analytics, and risk platforms. You drive production readiness through debugging, logs analysis, and support, while influencing architecture and best practices. This role offers exposure to cutting-edge real-time systems and a fast-paced, innovation-driven environment.

• career growth opportunities
• fast-paced and innovation-driven environment
• collaboration with highly skilled teams

• Design, develop, and maintain kdb+/q applications for real-time/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 engineers 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 Linux/Unix and shell scripting knowledge
• Production support, debugging, and troubleshooting experience
• Familiarity with distributed systems and large-scale data processing
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities

• communication
• collaboration
• analytical thinking
• kdb+/q programming
• real-time streaming
• time-series data