Who are we?
Smarkets is a betting exchange for sports and political trading that has handled over £29 billion in volume since 2010. Our company mission is to fix the betting industry with the best products and best prices. We are upending the sports betting industry by growing a transparent platform that offers the best value for bettors, with the fairest odds, best technology and a superior customer experience.
Smarkets is a Series B tech company that brings a professional, product-led approach to our mission. We embrace collaboration, trust, innovation and scientific rigour, while we celebrate ambitious goals and passionate energy. Our culture rewards people on merit and excellence and we strive to provide a working environment where recognition, challenges, support, collaboration, interesting benefits and shared meals provided by our chefs mix together to let you unlock your potential, grow with us and become your best self.
Join our team and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our betting trading technology landscape.
The Role
As a Fullstack Software Engineer within our Engineering organization, you will play a pivotal role in designing, developing, and maintaining the services that power Smarkets' business operations products. You will collaborate closely with engineering managers, technical leadership, and product managers to lead complex technical projects aligned with the Smarkets product roadmap.
The Team
The Pricing team owns the full technology stack which powers our trading strategies (backend) and provides trading tools to our internal market making team (frontend). The services owned and maintained by the team include connecting to trading exchanges, trading and backtesting strategies, as well as managing order flow and trade execution. Naturally the engineers work closely with our quant and trading teams to implement these underlying services which drive our revenue generation.
Recently the Pricing team has been working on tech stack consolidation on devops side and rewriting a number of core services into a more modern technology stack (eg, migrating from Python to Rust) in order to drive down latency on our trading strategies for optimal performance.
Responsibilities:
- Design, implement and maintain complex designs/features written in Rust and occasionally Python as we progress to full migration of remaining microservices to Rust
- Leverage your previous experience with Javascript and React framework to enhance the development and maintainability of order management systems
- Implement alerting and monitoring to ensure production stability of our services
- Help reinforce the standard for code quality, by writing tests and reviewing Pull Requests
- Continuously improve engineering processes including CI/CD
- Mentor technically your direct teammates
- Work closely with Product and Trading to scope and lead complex business goal aligned projects
- Be the champion of the stack by demonstrating first hand how to implement functionalities in the right way, with an eye to the horizon and your mind on the present
Role Requirements:
- 4+ years of software engineering experience building web UI (by using React library), and integrating front end with REST APIs
- 4+ years of experience working with Rust and/or Python
- Previous experience with building distributed systems in a modern cloud environment
- Previous experience with DevOps engineering stacks/tools/practices including GitLab and K8S
- Previous experience working as part of business operations aligned team
- Previous experience working in Sport Betting or Finance industries
- Strong written and spoken communication skills in English
- The ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams
Values
- Push to win
- Make others better
- Give a shit
- Be a pro
- Bring the energy
Our values are at the heart of everything that we do. We believe these are the fundamentals to ensure we are delivering what’s expected of us in the best way possible for ourselves and for those around us.
Benefits
We offer a competitive salary package and benefits, along with a dynamic and collaborative work environment. Your work with us will make an impact and your voice will be heard.
We are a diverse team with a strong work ethic and plenty of hunger to win. We have designed our benefits offering around Health, Wealth, Lifestyle and Development.
These include:
- Stock options which vests over 4 years
- Pension scheme - An impressive pension scheme via Aviva. We will match 6% if you choose the same
- Health insurance
- Fresh fruit and snacks provided in the office everyday! (tea, coffee, soft drinks also included)
- We’re a member of a cycle to work scheme
- We want to continue to invest in all our employees and do so by providing a £1000 yearly education budget that can be used on courses, conferences, books or training
- 25 days paid holiday + bank holidays to enjoy - you have the choice to carry over 5 days to the next year!
- Flexible working - we want to provide a hybrid model approach to working and provide you with 2 days a week working from home.
- 20 days a year of globally working - we provide the ability to work from anywhere in the world for up to 20 days a year.
- We will provide you lunch everyday in the office - you don’t need to worry about feeding your belly as we have it sorted with top quality food served by our in-house Chef Alex!
