Senior Quantitative Developer

About Smarkets: Smarkets is a betting exchange for sports and political trading that has handled over £37 billion in volume since 2010. Our mission is to fix the betting industry by creating a transparent platform that offers the best value for users.

The Role: As a Senior Quantitative Developer, you will own a suite of our trading strategies and be responsible for overseeing and maintaining them through post-trading analysis and improvement of their business logic. You will research and develop new abilities to enable us to price more markets profitably.

Responsibilities:

• Own a suite of trading strategies and be responsible for their maintenance and improvement.
• Research and develop new abilities for pricing markets using correlations/derivatives and fundamental modeling.
• Use and develop automated reporting to improve post-trade analysis.
• Display strong analytical and problem-solving skills to clean and analyze large datasets.
• Communicate complex problems and collaborate with technical and non-technical teams.
• Be proactive and a self-starter to improve trading performance.
• Balance short-term results with good design for future reiteration.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in related disciplines (Maths, CompSci, Physics, or Stats).
• Strong understanding of probability and statistical prediction.
• Proficiency with Python (including numpy, pandas) and SQL.
• Machine learning experience.
• Passion for professional sports and understanding of sports rules.
• Prior experience in sports betting or trading environment.

Our Tech Stack: Python, Rust (performance critical components), PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch.

Benefits: Competitive salary, stock options, health insurance, flexible working, training budget, incredible meals, and more.