Software Engineer

PlayMeTech
Greater London
1 month ago
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About Us:


PlayMeTech is a proprietary trading firm and alternative investment manager, focused on quantitative and fundamental sports trading. With professionals across Europe, Asia, and the USA, our group combines deep research with proprietary, tech-driven methodologies to trade on all major public exchanges and markets, generating risk-adjusted returns. Our trading philosophy is fuelled by a passion for competitive sports and quantitative research. By applying predictive systems and our seasoned knowledge of public sports markets, we aim to deliver sustainable, short- and long-term value for partners and investors with minimal correlation to traditional financial markets. PlayMeTech executes systematic strategies on the world’s most frequently played sports, identifying market inefficiencies and diversifying capital across various wagering categories, including spreads, totals, and more.



Key Responsibilities:

  • Build necessary supporting software systems for traders like automation tools, betting control console/website
  • Build sports data pipeline, from data scraping, data processing to data management
  • Investigate and troubleshoot unexpected data issue like data missing, duplicate
  • Maintain and improve the existing software projects
  • Analyse sports betting data and give insight to non-developers like traders
  • Communication with users and stakeholders



Skills / Competencies Required:

  • MSc degree in computer science, software engineering or other related discipline
  • 3+ years’ software engineering work experience
  • Good Python development skills and OOP experiences
  • Experience with data-driven software pipeline project
  • Experience with client-server system project
  • Familiarity with data science tools like Jupyter, Pandas,Matplotlib
  • Familiarity with database tools like MySQL, MongoDB
  • Familiarity with version control tools like Git
  • Ability to work across multiple projects in an agile environment
  • Excellent communication skills



Desirable skills:

  • Familiarity with data science and machine learning skills
  • Exposure to high-frequency trading and real-time data handling
  • Experience with data system design and management
  • Familiarity with sports betting software project




Benefits:

  • Salary: £60,000+ (DOE)
  • Performance-based bonus scheme
  • 30 days of holiday (exclusive of bank holidays)
  • Private health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life and accident insurance


Ideally, we are seeking someone who is willing to relocate to Madrid, Spain.

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