Software Engineer - Bet Trading Models

Job Description

Our Trading Models team, part of our Bet tribe, are on the lookout for an outstanding Software Engineer to join their ranks.This squad builds tooling for our in-house traders, allowing them to gain the upper hand on competition whilst maintaining a phenomenal product for our customers! We build and own our market-leading Trading Engine which provides SkyBet with its innovativefootball pricing, handling 33.4 million market updates between 3 and 5 PM on an average Saturday afternoon.As a Software Engineer in Trading Models, you will...

• Contribute to our full-stack codebase, reviewing other specialists code and releasing to production daily.
• Be exposed to our internal pricing models, helping to expand them and working on our new projects.
• As our products are for internal use, our customers are also internal. Models engineers will work closely with the Traders to help define and refine our products.
• Need to balance the commercial needs of the business against the ideal technical design, proposing sound phased and pragmatic implementations where appropriate.
• Football is always on - as a team we need to maintain operational excellence and limit any downtime. As owners of our systems we embrace failure; we fail fast, recover quickly and keep learning.

How youll do it...

• Turn concepts and requirements into highly available applications and systems using industry standard languages and technologies including Kotlin, Node.JS and React.
• Whilst some of our software runs on SkyBets inhouse Kafka and Kubernetes platforms, Trading Models heavily utilise managed AWS services so that we can focus on building better products rather than setting up infrastructure. Youll use serverless technologiessuch as Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, API Gateway and many more.
• While experience in the above tools is advantageous, it is not a requirement as we expect engineers to pick up skills on the job.
• Engineers will be expected to work in an Agile Software Delivery squad, contribute to the teams ways of working and fully embrace a teamwork mentality through practices such as pair programming and a no-blame culture.
• Whilst we have dedicated testers and on call engineers in the team, every engineer is responsible for quality and ownership of our services. You will be expected to contribute to all parts of the test pyramid.
• Take operational responsibility for the services your squad owns, assuring services are up to the required service level through regular testing.
• Work with your squad to develop and implement real-time monitoring, good alert design and first-rate logging strategies to easily check health and availability of services.
• In your first few months, you will be expected to become familiar with our full-stack codebase, and ways of working. You will start by pairing with an existing engineer and tackling small tasks as you find your feet.

How youll do it...

• Turn concepts and requirements into highly available applications and systems using industry standard languages and technologies including Kotlin, Node.JS and React.
• Whilst some of our software runs on SkyBets inhouse Kafka and Kubernetes platforms, Trading Models heavily utilise managed AWS services so that we can focus on building better products rather than setting up infrastructure. Youll use serverless technologiessuch as Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, API Gateway and many more.
• While experience in the above tools is advantageous, it is not a requirement as we expect engineers to pick up skills on the job.
• Engineers will be expected to work in an Agile Software Delivery squad, contribute to the teams ways of working and fully embrace a teamwork mentality through practices such as pair programming and a no-blame culture.
• Whilst we have dedicated testers and on call engineers in the team, every engineer is responsible for quality and ownership of our services. You will be expected to contribute to all parts of the test pyramid.
• Take operational responsibility for the services your squad owns, assuring services are up to the required service level through regular testing.
• Work with your squad to develop and implement real-time monitoring, good alert design and first-rate logging strategies to easily check health and availability of services.
• In your first few months, you will be expected to become familiar with our full-stack codebase, and ways of working. You will start by pairing with an existing engineer and tackling small tasks as you find your feet.