Senior Quant Developer
Description
The Quant Development unit of the Data Science team is looking for a Senior Quant Developer that will be responsible for creating and maintaining sports betting forecasting models. The role will be based in Athens.
Responsibilities
- Creates new player props markets from price feed and stats data, including exotic betting markets unlike any in our current offering.
- Designs new sports betting models and optimizes existing ones, including making pricing more accurate, the code more scalable, and execution perform better for time or memory.
- Owns the team's services such as Alerting for Traders.
- Manages data pipelines on the cloud and ensures they are efficient and scalable.
- Implements new design patterns for coding best practice in object-oriented programming and communicates them to the team.
- Engages with client-facing teams to understand customer's needs and business requirements, and creates and delivers project presentations to leadership.
- Collaborates closely with product owners and software developers to move projects from idea to integration.
- Acts as a mentor for junior team members and leads regular knowledge share sessions on subjects like sports betting models, API design, and cloud solutions.
Requirements
- A postgraduate qualification in Data Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics or a closely related quantitative field.
- 5+ years of working experience, or a PhD in a quantitative field and 2+ years of working experience.
- 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.
- 2+ years working experience in the betting industry.
- Knowledge of Machine Learning methodologies (e.g. Neural Networks, Random Forests, GBMs, SVMs etc.).
- Experience with cloud computing services.
- Experience with version control platforms (e.g. GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket etc.).
- Experience with Jira and Confluence.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken).
- You must have a strong work ethic and outstanding interpersonal skills.
- You must be self-motivated, a team-player and a creative thinker.
Benefits
- Attractive benefits, an open and supportive environment as well as 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!
- Enjoy flexible working whilst we provide you with the guidance and development skills you need to progress and enhance your career
- We have a collaborative office environment with our team members in office 2 days per week.
