KDB Developer

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We're looking for a KDB Developer to join our team in Lisbon, Portugal, in a hybrid working mode. The role focuses on maintaining, evolving and optimizing a production-grade data platform that supports electronic equities market data. You will design, build and maintain high-performance KDB+/q applications for data ingestion, transformation, storage and retrieval, enabling low-latency analytics across the firm. This position provides an opportunity to work closely with traders, quantitative analysts and IT teams to deliver reliable, real-time data solutions that power analytics and decision-making. Responsibilities: - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather and refine requirements. - Develop business-focused dashboards using Tableau or Python frameworks such as Plotly and Streamlit or through official analytics pipelines. - Design, code, test and deploy KDB+/q services for data enrichment and presentation. - Profile and optimize KDB queries to improve performance and reduce bottlenecks. - Participate in on-call rotations, address production incidents and perform root cause analysis. - Document code, processes and procedures for effective knowledge sharing and continuity. - Contribute to automated unit, integration and performance testing as well as CI pipelines. - Implement schema validation and outlier detection checks to ensure data quality. Requirements: - Minimum 3 years of software development experience. - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail. - Experience working with electronic trading platforms or other high-load real-time systems. - Familiarity with KDB+/q development for data-intensive applications. - Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks. - Experience in building dashboards with Tableau or Python visualization libraries is beneficial. - Understanding of CI/CD and automated testing principles.