KDB+ Engineer/FS/12 months/50-80K HKD

Senior KDB+ Engineer

12 month contract

50-80K HKD per month (depending on seniority/experience)

Location: Hong Kong (No Visa Sponsorship)

Join a Tier-1 Financial institution’s electronic trading desk as a Senior KDB+ Engineer. You will be part of a team responsible for the data platform used by Quants and Traders for real-time risk, pricing, and backtesting. This is a high-availability environment with multiple production releases per day and a massive global data footprint.

Technical Stack & Responsibilities

• Design and optimize scalable KDB+ tick architectures (TP, RDB, HDB) and data access layers.
• Write optimized, vectorized q code to handle multi-terabyte daily data ingestion.
• Full ownership of the SDLC—TDD/BDD, build automation, and CI/CD are core to the workflow.
• Partner with Quants and eTech teams to build APIs and analytics for automated trading.

Requirements

• Deep knowledge of q and experience managing large-scale HDBs.
• Solid grasp of market data, trade lifecycles, and basic statistics.
• Strong focus on Test-Driven Development and specification-based testing.
• Experience with build/deployment automation and performance monitoring.
• Competency in a second language (Python, Java, etc.) is a plus.

Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.