Guesser is a prediction market platform where users can invest in
the outcome of real world events using cryptocurrency. These prediction
markets are smart contracts deployed on the Ethereum blockchain, and
they enable users to place forecasts in a fully peer to peer way with a
level of transactional freedom that has not been possible until the
advent of blockchain technology. As prediction markets grow they will
present larger opportunities for those with valuable information to
benefit from their edge and be able to exchange that value.
Our
mission is to enable this forecasting of real world outcomes throughout a
range of topics, whether that’s finance, politics, e-sports,
technology, entertainment… by creating products that are very simple to
use by our growing audience. Interacting with blockchain technology
today is complex, and we are changing that by building a product that
more people can easily use and understand.
As a team, we are
building a small, motivated, energetic group of people committed to
contributing to build an alternative financial system based on
cryptocurrencies, harnessing the power of decentralized technology and
smart contracts. By joining Guesser at this early stage, you become a
key part of a team of less than 10 people in which your work will play
an indispensable role in turning this vision into a long term reality.
As
a product, we have a standard for top quality in any of our focus
fields, whether that’s the user interface, the user experience, the
smart contract connection architecture or the transactions design. We
are thrilled to face new technical challenges and overcome them by
combining the technical expertise of a talented team with the learning
culture that we try to foster in the company’s environment.
Both
founders Jose and Carlos started to work on the project from Madrid,
Spain, which is where our main office is now. Our investors are top U.S.
venture capital firms - the ideal partners to join us on this journey!
YOUR ROLE
You will have full flexibility and decision making power in building, developing and deploying our market data infrastructure.
To
make prediction markets more efficient we need to build models that use
data to assess the probabilities of each event and every outcome, in
the time preceding its creation as well as while trading activity and
bets are happening. This involves:
- Building and developing a data pipeline
- Analyzing previous performance data
- Tracking live real world updates and price fluctuations through APIs
- Tracking real-time market trading APIs
- Testing predictive models
All
these must be implemented in different data environments given the
different nature of prediction market topics that Guesser deals with.
Technical Requirements
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases.
- Experience in construction, analysis and maintenance of ETL processes.
- Working with web services and APIs.
- Management of cloud environment tools (AWS, Google Cloud, MS Azure)
- Comfortable working with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming, etc.
- Knowledge of object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala, R, etc
Nice to Haves
- Solidity
- Problem solving skills, ability to master new skills, versatile, and results oriented
- Strong sense of responsibility, organization, rigor and quality of work
OUR CULTURE
We
are looking for people willing to take on the big responsibility of an
early stage startup, face the many challenges that building something
new entails with passion, integrity and sharpness, and be able to solve
unexpected problems with flexibility and accuracy.
We make
decisions using reason and facts, not authority. Members of the team
shall try to best understand how the world works and act from this
knowledge to make our mission a reality. Every member of the team is
expected to bring curiosity and rigor; we like those who learn
relentlessly and are open to acknowledge mistakes we all make.
We
surround ourselves with people who are willing to explore ideas and
beliefs which are far or opposite from the mainstream opinion, in favor
of finding the truth.
The power of an alternative financial
system challenges traditional models such as centralized money issuance,
permissioned transactions or custodial banking. We are looking for
people who are willing to question the status quo if that’s necessary to
build a better product, system or new technology.
A role in a
small team in a high growth startup is very different from that of
working for a big company. Where in other companies you’d be told to do
something, here you might be expected to figure it out for yourself.
What could be a clearly defined position where you shouldn’t go out of
line, here it’s a multi-disciplinary role where you must be able to
harness different skills and be ready to make time sensitive decisions.
Where meeting with another team member might take weeks to set up, here
it can take minutes. What can be a Christmas bonus in a big corporation,
here it’s owning equity % in a business where your work has a
measurable impact in that future value.
Being part of the Guesser
team is an experience from which you will learn and grow exponentially.
We’re looking forward to welcoming you on board!