Quant Developer
Description
The Quant Development unit of the Data Science team is looking for a Quant Developer that will be responsible for creating and maintaining sports betting forecasting models. The role will be based in London.
Responsibilities
- Creates new player props markets from price feed and stats data.
- Adds significant new features and components to sports betting models to improve pricing in certain areas and markets.
- Owns the team's services such as Alerting for Traders.
- Manages data pipelines on the cloud and ensures they are efficient and scalable.
- Reduces tech debt whilst working on other tasks, for example introducing a new interface for market contracts.
- Collaborates and presents across team functions and communicates technical solutions effectively in Jira, Confluence and code.
- Works closely with product owners and software developers to move projects from idea to integration.
- Offers critical and concrete feedback in code reviews to ensure robust contributions like suggesting extra tests, spotting inconsistencies and helping resolve problems.
Requirements
- A postgraduate qualification in Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics or a closely related quantitative field.
- 3+ years of working experience or a PhD in a quantitative field.
- Advanced programming skills: (a) object-oriented programming ( C# or Python ) and (b) databases ( SQL and NoSQL ).
- Experience with various modelling techniques (e.g. Probability Distributions, GLMs, Monte Carlo Simulations, Bayesian Inference, Time-Series Analysis etc.)
- A demonstrable interest in developing forecasting models for sports.
- A good understanding of betting concepts and markets.
Benefits
- Attractive benefits
- an open and supportive environment
- a modern and exciting workplace
- The opportunity to interact with global teams on a regular basis as you and our business continues to develop & grow
- Tangible and genuine development - at OpenBet, you can take your career where you want it to go!
- flexible working whilst we provide you with the guidance and development skills you need to progress and enhance your career
