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Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE (London, UK; now also Santa Monica, California) We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price co
by bostik 10y ago
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE (London, UK; now also Santa Monica, California)
We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small, agile, and fast-growing team, in our beautiful office in St. Katharine Docks. If our US location tickles your fancy, you get to help setting up a brand new office too.
Smarkets develops a reliable, low-latency, highly concurrent betting exchange based on trading exchange designs. We're also building a fast, modern web interface to allow for a smoother experience. Servicing our users is top priority.
The Smarkets platform is written predominantly on Python and Erlang, and relies heavily on asynchronous programming techniques. We use REST where we can. Life at Smarkets circles around people, version control, configuration management and automation. We can - and do - deploy to production several times a day.
Our entire production is in AWS. In fact, Smarkets was the first gambling operator under the Maltese regulator to get permission to run everything in the cloud. We push the envelope where needed and educate auditors when necessary.
We are looking for:
* Infrastructure Engineers, both junior and senior (think midway between SRE and devops; security background is a bonus)
* An Infrastructure Lead Engineer
* Software Engineers (London, Los Angeles)
* UX/UI Designers
If you like the idea of flat structure and practical engineering approach, see our jobs at https://smarkets.com/careers/ https://smarkets.com/careers/ . (A while back I wrote an overview about our engineering challenges, which you can find at https://smarketshq.com/the-challenges-of-running-a-betting-exchange-4a55320d0978 https://smarketshq.com/the-challenges-of-running-a-betting-e... .)
- ninjate 10y agoDo you have anything in place for people who have a no-compete clause and are working at one of your competitors? Asking for a friend.
- bostik 10y agoWe haven't had to consider this situation before, so I don't have an answer. Not yet. I'll get an answer for tomorrow.
- bostik 10y agoWell, I have an answer: <EMPTY STRING> The question itself is risky, even to ask. We cannot condone or encourage anyone breaking contractual agreements - no matter what they might be or how the parties involved feel about them.
- ninjate 10y agoOh well, my friend says "Thanks for trying". But why is risky to ask?