KDB+ Developer

The Financial Markets (FM) landscape is rapidly going through a process of digitisation, at the core of which is eTrading. eTrading at ING covers all products traded in ING FM. These span from the very liquid and electronic products (cash equities, futures, commodities and FX), Fixed Income products (corporate and government bonds) which are in the process of becoming electronic due to balance sheet reduction and regulation, to the less liquid and less electronic derivative products. Data is core to eTrading and eTrading also covers the data and business intelligence strategy.

As the lead KDB+ developer you will be part of the eTrading team and will be responsible for development and strategic direction of the KDB+ solution. Expected responsibilities will include:

Responsibilities

• Scale our architecture to support different business use cases and data growth.
• Development of tools for automated testing, monitoring and deployment
• Design infrastructure and develop software for load balancing and optimisation
• Help lead our core development and business intelligence teams develop tools for data analytics and monitoring for sales, trading and business.
• Help architect the collection of alternative data sources

• 5+ years of working experience with KDB+/Q
• Demonstrable interest and aptitude for data analysis
• Experience with designing KDB solutions for trading
• Experience in data storage and access optimisations
• Experience with automated testing
• Team lead Experience

• Experience with KDB dashboards
• Experience with the entire software development life
• Java and Python experience
• Design (patterns), algorithms and data structures knowledge
• Multiple stakeholder management

• Hands-on mentality; Calm under pressure
• Ability to deliver without much supervision
• Creative learning and thinking, passion for technology; Proactive behaviour and perpetual energy and drive to improve performance;
• Challenger of the status quo, always striving to do things more efficiently and effectively;
• Genuine team player.

• Customer and product focus; Clear, concise and transparent communicator.