We are looking for Front-end Engineers to join our growing team. Smarkets
adopts a fluid, self-managing style which allows our teams the freedom
to make technical decisions together, with little hierarchy - giving our
engineers the opportunity to be genuinely autonomous. With our mission
being to revolutionise one of the oldest industries in the world, we’re
looking for engineers who are motivated by rethinking the method and
model of betting. This role is
focussed on building a great experience for our users and will require
excellent team collaboration across design, marketing and other parts of
engineering.
Our Front-end tech stack is built around React and React Native, with the latest ES6 features and libraries.
More specifically, your responsibilities will be:
- To write clean, modular and testable code with consistent code style
- Develop
new features for our existing platform with a strong focus on making
customer experience memorable for the right reasons
- Contributing
to the engineering culture at Smarkets, sharing your knowledge and
ideas with others, and being open to working in different ways
- To define your own role within the context of self-management (we’ll help you with this)
- Build the user interface and design language across different platforms
Role requirements:
- Work experience with HTML, CSS, JS and an understanding of the best practices
- Good familiarity with React, REST APIs and Websockets
- Experience using the latest web stacks or libraries
- The things
you work on will get used by millions of customers, so you will be
focussed on quality - you’ll write clean, componentized and well-tested
code, heavily favouring reuse
- Experience in developing cross-platform mobile applications
Bonus skills:
- Experience writing native mobile applications
- Experience in Objective C/Swift or Java
- Comfortable in a Linux environment
Why Smarkets?
We've built one of the world's
largest betting exchanges with significantly better odds than the
competition. Our strength is technology and trading with a passion to
push the known boundaries of real-time financial technology. With our
self-management structure, flexible work environment and unlimited
holiday allowance, Smarkets offers a unique opportunity to be part of a
great work culture. Our office in St Katharine’s Docks (Tower Hill)
comes complete with a fantastic roof terrace and a team of in-house
chefs cooking breakfast and lunch every day.
Notes:
The salary range for engineers at
Smarkets is £40,000-£65,000 per year, including stock options and other
benefits. Your salary will be determined by experience.
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