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Developer – Systematic Trading

A developer role in an established 18-person trading team at Millennium, building the applications used for data collection, analytics and trading. The main stack is KDB+/q on Linux.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Load data from internal and external sources into the team's KDB+ stores
Build monitors that catch data problems early
Create APIs so the business can query data
Develop streaming analytics and real-time monitoring
Write a testing framework and improve the existing codebase

What they ask for

Required

Programming fundamentals
Linux familiarity
Attention to detail
Ability to prioritise under pressure
Communication
Computer science, maths or similar degree

Preferred

Q/KDB+

Education: Bachelor's or master's in computer science, mathematics or a related area
Experience: Not stated; KDB+/q is an advantage
Languages and tools: KDB+/q
Git
Gradle

How to prepare

Work through q and KDB+ tutorials on a sample tick dataset
Build a small data-quality monitor with alerts on gaps and outliers
Practise Linux shell and Git workflows
Learn how streaming tick data is handled in real-time systems

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Millennium and doesn’t handle applications.