Silicon Milkroundabout
November 11, 2012
Smarkets is at start-ups job fair Silicon Milkroundabout today recruiting for new talent. Wanna work for us? Stop by and say hello. If you can’t make it, check out the ad below then send your CV to: yourlife@smarkets.com. We’re also still recruiting Client Services Reps.
Smarkets Seeking New Graduates
August 29, 2012
We at Smarkets are looking for new graduates to join our team. If you love Smarkets, want to experience life at a growing London start-up and want to help build our betting exchange, read on:
About Smarkets
Smarkets is disrupting the online sports gambling industry by offering a modern betting exchange product with significantly lower transaction fees than the competition. Since launching in February 2010, we have traded over £150 million worth of bets. Smarkets has been featured in publications such as Wired UK, The Wall Street Journal and TechCrunch and was recently selected as part of the Startups 100. We share an office in East London with other exciting start-ups.
About the role
We are looking for fresh graduates who are interested in being part of something big. As a client services representative you’ll be the first point of contact with our customers, so an outgoing attitude is a must. We’re not looking for someone who is content doing the minimal amount either, so don’t get in touch with us if your idea of a job is a place you show your face from 9 to 5 and nothing more. We’re ideally looking for someone who wants to grow and learn with us as the company develops. Because you’ll be working for a rapidly growing start-up, you’ll have the opportunity to work on projects in fields as diverse as marketing, business development and outreach, accounting and finance, software development, office management and more.
Main Responsibilities
- Interact with customers through various online and offline channels, ensuring you provide an exemplary level of customer support
- Basic office administrative tasks as required
- Maintain a current social media presence using Twitter, Facebook and other channels as necessary
- Contribute to the growth of the company by getting involved in other aspects of the business (marketing, customer outreach, business development, partnership negotiation, finance and accounting, software development and/or office management)
Key Skills
- University graduate or equivalent experience
- Outgoing, people person
- Excellent communication skills (this includes strong written and spoken English)
- Adept at working independently and with little direction (we love self-starters)
- Excellent problem solving skills
- Entrepreneurial attitude
- Familiarity with bookmakers and betting exchanges an asset
- Comfortable working in an online environment; familiarity with or a desire to learn programming languages a plus
- You’ll get teased endlessly if you can’t touch type
More
- This is a full-time job (with frequent evening and weekend work) based near Old Street, London, United Kingdom
- Salary dependent on experience
- Please note you must have the right to work in the UK
- We are unable to assist with relocation
If the idea of a flexible, fun environment to work in that is free from corporate politics appeals to you, then please get in touch with us. Who knows, maybe you’ll be heading your own department in two years’ time.
If you want to work with us we’d love to hear your experience with Smarkets so sign up, maybe place a bet, but definitely poke around on the website. Once you’ve done that, send your CV and covering letter to yourlife@smarkets.com with ‘Client Services Representative’ in the subject line. Please be sure to include your typing speed and your Smarkets account email (if applicable) on your CV.
Smarkets at Silicon Milkroundabout this Sunday
October 26, 2011
Fancy having your photo on the Smarkets team page?
Hunter and Brad will be at Silicon Milkroundabout this Sunday, October 30th from 11am – 5pm. We’re looking for developers and engineers, so if you’re fluent in Python, Erlang et al., make sure you stop by .
If you can’t make it to Sunday’s event, check out our job and internship opportunities.
What: Silicon Milkroundabout
Where: The Old Truman Brewery, T1 space. Entry at 81 Brick Lane, London
When: Sunday, October 30th, 11am – 5pm
Python and Erlang engineering jobs
January 5, 2011
Continuing our hiring binge, we’re also looking for engineers experienced with the rest of the stack.
A bit about Smarkets
Smarkets is one of the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 Tech Startups to watch in Europe, was shortlisted for the Startups Awards, and is heavily driven by user-focused design and a focus on technology and engineering as a first class discipline. We use agile product development techniques and release changes frequently.
We are also heavily invested in world-class technical talent from such pedigree as Wolverine Trading, Last.fm, and Yahoo!; and are looking to foster that reputation within the community and investors.
A bit about the job and working environment
The part of our stack which runs behind the website is one of the few websites that uses Erlang as a primary language, and is supported by other well-known Erlang projects such as RabbitMQ and CouchDB.
The non-Erlang pieces of our stack are entirely written in Python, and relies heavily on asynchronous programming techniques and REST.
Key Responsibilities
- Build new products and services that augment our exchange offering;
- Improve existing market exchange infrastructure and services;
- Program primarily using Python and Erlang; and
- Work in a start up environment where getting things done is crucial.
Requirements
- Computer Science (or related technical field) degree or equivalent professional experience;
- The ability to learn quickly with enthusiasm;
- The ability to work independently and lead design/architecture of new features;
- Knowledge of transaction processing and relational database design; and
- Prior experience delivering solid web-related products in a GNU/Linux environment.
Bonus points
- Functional programming experience;
- Experience with web technologies and methodologies like web servers, REST, and protocol buffers;
- Using Git in a multi-developer environment.
Other information about the job
- This is a full time, on site job;
- The job is based in Clerkenwell, London, United Kingdom.
If you’re looking for a flexible, agile team to work with; want to work somewhere free of big corporate politics; would like a cool project to work on; and fit the above criteria we’d love to hear from you! Please provide a CV and some examples of your recent or relevant work.
Front end developer role at Smarkets
January 4, 2011
We’re happy to announce that we’re looking for an experienced front end web developer for a full time position with an immediate start! Here’s some useful information about our platform:
Our front end application is a collection of Django apps built on an exclusively Python API client (to a RESTful Erlang API), and we’re looking for someone to build out user-facing features. We’ve also recently added a search application that’s powered by Flask.
A typical candidate:
- Hand-written, valid (when required) (X)HTML (although Smarkets values HTML 4.01 Strict, and we’d expect a candidate to be able to explain the difference between XHTML and HTML in practical terms);
- Solid knowledge of Javascript, above and beyond frameworks, but also experience with the benefits of Javascript frameworks, including jQuery and YUI;
- Experience writing cross-browser CSS;
- Demonstrated understanding and experience of how the above things can affect accessibility and performance;
- Experience with Django, Pylons, TurboGears or any other modern Python-based web frameworks. We use Django at Smarkets, so bonus points for that;
- A good cultural fit for a small team that works under the pressure, short deadlines, and high workload start ups are legendary for (we drink a lot of coffee); and
- A proven history of getting the job done on high quality websites.
An ideal candidate:
- Knows your way around Linux;
- Solid Python experience, beyond just Django or Pylons;
- Using Git in a multi-developer environment.
About the job
- This is a full time, on site job;
- The job is based in Clerkenwell, London, United Kingdom.
If you’re looking for a flexible, agile team to work with; want to work somewhere free of big corporate politics; would like a cool project to work on; and fit the above criteria we’d love to hear from you! Please provide a CV and some examples of your recent or relevant work.
Want to join Smarkets?
May 26, 2010
We’re looking for an experienced front end web developer for a full time position with an immediate start. Sound interesting? Read on…
Job description
Our front end application is a collection of Django apps built on an exclusively Python API client (to a RESTful Erlang API), and we’re looking for someone to build out user-facing features.
Required skills and qualities
- Hand-written, valid (when required) (X)HTML (although Smarkets values HTML 4.01 Strict, and we’d expect a candidate to be able to explain the difference between XHTML and HTML in practical terms);
- Solid knowledge of Javascript, above and beyond frameworks, but also experience with the benefits of Javascript frameworks, including jQuery and YUI;
- Experience writing cross-browser CSS;
- Demonstrated understanding and experience of how the above things can affect accessibility and performance;
- Experience with Django, Pylons, TurboGears or any other modern Python-based web frameworks. We use Django at Smarkets, so bonus points for that;
- A good cultural fit for a small team that works under intense pressure, short deadlines, and a high workload; and
- A proven history of getting the job done on high quality websites.
Desirable skills
- Knowing your way around Linux;
- Solid Python experience, beyond just Django or Pylons;
- Using Git in a multi-developer environment.
Additional information
- This is a full time, on site job;
- The job is based in Clerkenwell, London, United Kingdom.
If you’re looking for a flexible, agile team to work with; want to work somewhere free of big corporate politics; would like a cool project to work on; and fit the above criteria we’d love to hear from you!
Want to work at Smarkets?
June 4, 2008
We’re looking for a front-end web developer.
Type: Full-time
What: Front-end web developer
When: ASAP
Pay: Cash + equity
Where: London (NW5)
Smarkets is building an online prediction market system with a keen focus on usability. We believe strongly in web standards, accessibility, and a user-centred approach to designing interfaces. As a front-end developer, you would work on creating and implementing new interface ideas, requiring experience with all levels of UI development from markup and styling to interaction.
Skills:
HTML, CSS, Javascript, UI & UX design, web standards
Gravy:
Erlang and/or Haskell (or functional programming in general), git, RESTful web service design, message passing, non-relational databases, distributed systems, and scalability
Bonus:
You can write closures without memory leaks in IE.
Send us an email at y_o_u_r_l_i_f_e [at] smarkets [dot] com with the underscores removed. Spam bots are starting to read the [at] [dot] syntax.
