Quantitative Developer

Title: Quantitative DeveloperLocation - New York, NYJob Type: Contract- HireLength: 6month RoleAre you interested in developing complex systems with both high throughput and low latency requirements? Are you interested in helping Quants with complex analytics? Do you want a role where you can take responsibility for the full development cycle – from requirement gathering to delivery of the end product? We’re looking for someone like that to help usTranslate business requirements into designs for solutions Implement solutions and develop software components as defined by the software development life cycle (SDLC)Test and integrate components into larger subsystemsProduce secure, stable and scalable codeCollaborating with other global IT teams and business sponsors Solving problems that vary from high volume, low latency scalable architecture to user analyticsYour teamThe KDB team is global and work closely with our key business sponsors, Cash Quant and Quant Trading. Your location will be in New York working primarily on KDB in Q with some Java components.Your experience and skillsYou can demonstrate that you can contribute to the design and technical direction of the product suite as well as maintaining and enhancing it to meet future business requirements. This role will focus on the building out of our strategic Equities Tick and Transaction Cost Analysis systemsYou areA proficient Q Developer Comfortable with building out significantly sized KDB systems and infrastructure Able to develop on a Unix and/or Linux environmentAble to core Java and ideally Java web developmentComfortable working closely with the business and having the ability to quickly understand the products and services they offer Able to demonstrate market data knowledge across the equity’s asset class In addition, you will need very strong communication skills.