Smarkets is Python and Erlang technology company based
in central London. We've built one of the world's largest betting
exchanges, also known as a prediction market, 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.
We're a growing team of 78, boasting 24 nationalities,
and our platform has handled over £3 billion of bets since launching in
2010, allowing us to become one of the most profitable companies per
employee in Europe.
Our mission is to disrupt one of the oldest industries
in the world by rethinking the method and model of the betting business.
We think traditional sports betting rips off bettors, taking up to a
15% margin on bets. We offer the industry's lowest margin of around 2%.
We can and will do better.
We're building a reliable, low-latency, highly
concurrent system capable of scaling to thousands of executions per
second with sub-millisecond latency. Whether you want to work on the
exchange platform, the front-end or trading mechanisms, you'll be
solving real and challenging problems - from pushing Python performance
to new heights to handling real-time design constraints.
The Smarkets platform is written predominantly on
Python and Erlang, and relies heavily on asynchronous programming
techniques. We use REST where we can. We deploy to production several
times a day.
Our software stack is built around Linux, Vagrant,
Flask, Postgres, RabbitMQ, Git and Ansible - but we are not resistant to
change when it's needed.
Smarkets prides itself on collecting individuals
seeking challenge, and our team members' experiences show this. Come
join former financial and adtech engineers, researchers, scientists, and
PhDs at one of the most dynamic workforces in Europe.
Responsibilities
Develop, execute and maintain manual and automated tests.
Identifying opportunities for test automation, and the tooling and process required to execute.
Working with Engineers to drive improvements in overall quality, automation and testing processes and practices
Contribute to the organisation by advancing culture, challenging colleagues and perpetuating a knowledge-driven environment
Define your own role within the context of self-management (we'll help you get settled)
Requirements
Passionate about quality.
Previous software testing experience.
An eye for detail, both in terms of functional and presentation
Ability to clearly document use cases and features into clear concise tests.
Excellent collaboration and reporting skills.
Desirable Attributes
Experience with automated testing tools and scripting
Comfortable in a Linux environment
Interest in trading, probability, sports and exchanges
Compensation Guidance
- Salary determined by peer review and dependent on experience
- Stock options, and other benefits for qualified candidates.
Note: Unfortunately we are unable to sponsor visas for this role at the moment.
This is a full-time job based at our office on the 7th floor at 1 Commodity Quay, St Katharine Docks, London, E1W 1AZ.