We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. A small, agile, and fast-growing team, who recently broke £1 billion in lifetime trades on our platform.
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 automated testing. We can - and do - deploy to production several times a day.
Sounds like a really exciting opportunity! However, I can't open the link to your website. I get stuck in a redirect loop on your careers page between m.smakets.com and smarkets.com. Client is mobile Safari, iOS 8, iPhone 5S.
Oh bugger, I thought we had snuffed every last one of those redirect traps. Obviously not.
For what it's worth, we're in the middle of (to be fair: long & arduous) process of re-merging the desktop and mobile site. They really need to come from the same layout engine with a unified, responsive theming. WIP, as it stands.
And in case you're wondering why the process takes so long: we don't believe in "big bang" rollouts. Improving things gradually makes it far easier to track the effects and errors from individual changes. It's simpler to triage errors, misfeatures and omissions between small steps.
Rolling back a bad release is cheap, and there's nothing to be ashamed of in reverting a bad commit.
We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. A small, agile, and fast-growing team, who recently broke £1 billion in lifetime trades on our platform.
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 automated testing. We can - and do - deploy to production several times a day.
If you like the idea of flat structure and practical engineering approach, see our jobs at https://smarkets.com/about/jobs/