Job Summary:
State Street is a global financial services leader, and they are seeking an experienced Senior kdb+ Developer to join the BestX engineering team. In this role, you will design, build, and optimise high‑performance data platforms using kdb+, supporting BestX’s multi‑asset analytics capabilities.
Responsibilities:
• Design and develop key components of BestX’s multi‑asset analytics platform.
• Architect, build, and maintain kdb+ tick systems, with strong consideration for data organisation, schema design, and architectural trade‑offs.
• Develop and operate systems that process large‑scale, high‑frequency datasets, ensuring low latency, high throughput, and efficient memory utilisation.
• Analyse and optimise q queries, data models, and ingestion pipelines for both real‑time and historical workloads.
• Apply modern Agile development practices across cloud‑based, server‑side, and database‑driven systems.
• Build a strong understanding of Transaction Cost Analysis (TCA) and key regulatory benchmarks required for MiFID and MiFIR.
• Take full ownership of deliverables, driving work through from design to production.
• Establish and promote best practices, clean code standards, and sound design patterns.
• Act as a change agent, continuously improving engineering standards and ways of working.
• Champion Test‑Driven Development and “shift‑left” practices to support effective CI/CD pipelines.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 5+ years of hands‑on kdb+ development experience.
• Strong expertise in kdb+/q and Python.
• Proficiency with modern data science toolchains, including Jupyter, pandas, NumPy, scikit‑learn, with applied machine‑learning experience.
• Solid understanding of parallel computing frameworks such as Slurm or equivalent technologies.
• Strong background in quantitative analysis, including mathematical modelling, statistics, regression, and probability theory.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related STEM discipline from a top‑ranked university.
• Hands‑on experience with AWS and/or other modern cloud‑based infrastructure.
Preferred:
• Domain knowledge in FX, Fixed Income, Equities, or Equity Derivatives.
• Additional expertise with kdb+ in complex, production‑scale environments.
• Exposure to modern JavaScript build toolchains, including Node.js, npm, Rush, Yarn, Webpack, Babel, and Cypress.
Company:
State Street offers a range of financial services, including investment management, research and trading, as well as asset management. Founded in 1792, the company is headquartered in Boston, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.