Data Scientist, Smarkets

Sports Trading Team

Salary not provided

Docker

NumPy

Pandas

Scikit-Learn

Luigi

Bokeh

Plotly

Junior level

London

3-5 days a week in office

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

FintechB2CTradingGamblingSports

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

Docker

NumPy

Pandas

Scikit-Learn

Luigi

Bokeh

Plotly

Junior level

London

3-5 days a week in office

101-200 employees

FintechB2CTradingGamblingSports

Company mission

Smarkets is a peer-to-peer exchange platform for betting and trading on sport and politics.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You’ll have a relevant educational background and/or equivalent experience in a quantitative field (statistics, maths, physics etc.)
You’re comfortable with database querying
Confident with coding, you’ll have good proficiency with at least one modern programming language and experience in data analysis/machine learning libraries
You’ve got familiarity with Linux/Unix shell and a version control system (preferably Git)
Interest in sports betting/trading
Bonus points for: Knowledge of visualisation tools
Bonus points for: Knowledge of Apache Spark or other Hadoop data processing tools

What the job involves

Design, implementation and analysis of trading strategies
Exploratory analysis of large datasets, drawing insights and value from complex Big Data
Provide prototypes of data handling algorithms and assist with their implementation
Development of data loading/ETL processes
Build streaming and data analytics pipelines
Data manipulation through Numpy/Pandas
Build pipelines of batch jobs with the help of Luigi
Matplotlib/Bokeh/Plotly for data visualisation
BigQuery/Postgres for data persistence
Implementing machine learning models with Scikit-learn (and friends)
Docker for containerisation and also running our jobs in production

Salary benchmarks

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

Insights

Top investors

20% female employees

12% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (2.8)

Trustpilot (2.7)

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

Feb 2013

$2.3m

SERIES A

May 2011

$1m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $3.3m

Company benefits

Holidays increase with years of service
25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
Work from home opportunities
Private medial insurance
Free chef-cooked meals in the office

Company HQ

St Katharine's & Wapping, London, UK

Leadership

Jason Trost

(CEO)

Started his career in finance, including at UBS. Studied Computer Science at Northwestern University

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