Software Engineer Graduates 2020, Smarkets

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React
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
React Native
Python
Kafka
Postgres
C++
Rust
Flask
Grafana
Entry level
Smarkets

Peer-to-peer trading on sporting and political events

Job no longer available

Smarkets

Peer-to-peer trading on sporting and political events

101-200 employees

FintechB2CTradingGamblingSports

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
React
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
React Native
Python
Kafka
Postgres
C++
Rust
Flask
Grafana
Entry level

101-200 employees

FintechB2CTradingGamblingSports

Company mission

Smarkets is a peer-to-peer exchange platform for betting and trading on sport and politics.

Role

Who you are

  • You have a strong background in Computer Science, with a good understanding of software design, data structures, and algorithms
  • You are capable of writing well tested and maintainable code that integrates with an existing software system

Desirable

  • Familiarity with Python 3, C++, React Native, or Rust is a plus, but not a must
  • Experience with any other technologies in our stack (Kafka, Postgres, Flask, Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Grafana)
  • You have some personal projects or open source contributions to show off on your GitHub
  • An interest in sports, politics, finance or betting

What the job involves

  • As a company we use a range of modern computing languages and tools which have been conceptualised and implemented by the engineering group - Kubernetes, React, React Native, Rust, C++17 & Python to name a few
  • Ultimately our culture has been responsible for the work the engineering staff have achieved
  • We aim to have a relaxed and collaborative working environment to solve the challenging problems that we face
  • In-house chefs, transparent salaries and monthly parties are some of the highlights of being a Smarketeer
  • The Smarkets platform is used by more than 25k users daily through the App, Website or REST API
  • We are continuously developing new features for all of these platforms or in the backend, to improve performance, scalability and usability

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Insights

Top investors

20% female employees

12% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Company benefits

  • Holidays increase with years of service
  • 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Private medial insurance

Funding (2 rounds)

Feb 2013

$2.3m

SERIES A

May 2011

$1m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $3.3m

Our take

Betfair has been the predominant exchange for betting over the last decade. However, Smarkets is catching up with their peer-to- peer book and trades.

It offers a much lower commission than Betfair (2% vs 5%). They have also recently launched both Android and Apple apps, tapping into the trend for mobile betting. Smarkets uniqueness is in its tech-heavy focus on the product and prices.

While Smarkets accounts for about 5% of the UK betting market, it has never endorsed bold advertising campaigns preferred by most of its competitors. However, they have seen continued year-on-year growth for the past few years.

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Steph

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