KDB Developer
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About the Position
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
We Offer
- Competitive compensation depending on experience and skills
- Variety of projects within one company
- Being a part of a project following engineering excellence standards
- Individual career path and professional growth opportunities
- Internal events and communities
- Flexible work hours
About the Company
EPAM Systems is a global software engineering and product development company. We partner with the world's leading brands to deliver technology solutions that drive innovation and growth.
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