Senior Fullstack Software Engineer (R&D) at Smarkets

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London, UK

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

We’re building an R&D team reporting directly to the CEO and we’re looking for an exceptional senior full-stack engineer who will spearhead key projects and play a pivotal role in defining our engineering approach. You’ll lead development efforts on arbing sportsbook projects, working independently and collaboratively to deliver high-impact solutions. This is a unique opportunity to join as the first engineer and help shape this new team and technical direction. We are looking for talented engineers, both senior and junior, even if you don't have all of the below experience please still apply.

Responsibilities:

Drive full-stack development front front-end to back-end, taking ownership of technical decisions and project direction
Collaborate with the CEO to bring ideas to life, contributing to ideation, planning and implementation
Dive deep into problem-solving, identifying technical challenges and digging into code to reach solutions
Build systems and features autonomously while balancing collaboration with the CEO and, eventually, other engineers
Maintain high coding standards and a craftsman-like approach to software development, focusing on detail, quality and sustainability
Design, implement and maintain complex designs/features written in Python and occasionally Rust
Leverage your experience with Javascript frameworks 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
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:

Computer Science degree
Passion for coding and take pride in building quality software. You’re continually learning, testing and refining your work
You’re self-driven and maintain a positive approach
Comfortable doing everything from solving small bugs to taking on critical system issues with no task being too small or large
Able to dig deep, understand issues thoroughly and develop efficient, well-thought-out solutions
Skilled at working with minimal guidance while knowing to collaborate effectively when needed
Minimum 2+ years of experience working with Python
Built distributed systems in a modern cloud environment
DevOps engineering stacks/tools/practices
Interest in sports and sports betting
Strong written and spoken communication skills in English
Ok working five days a week in the office alongside the CEO

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!