Software Engineer Graduates 2020, Smarkets
Peer-to-peer trading on sporting and political events
Job no longer available
Peer-to-peer trading on sporting and political events
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
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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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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle