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Lead Quant Developer

Role Overview

Pythia Sports are looking for a  Quant Developer to lead a small but growing team, dedicated to ensuring our platform delivers the optimal experience to our B2B partners.

With particular emphasis on scalability, performance, deployability and integration, you will implement complex algorithms and work hand-in-glove with other technologists, as well as our product and operational teams to ensure we design, deliver, and run our platform to the highest possible standards. Your experience and understanding of production-ready Quant code will be of real benefit as we bring our products and our teams to maturity.

This is a hybrid role with London Victoria office attendance expected once a week.

Benefits:

  • 28 days + Bank Holidays leave
  • Purchase up to 5 extra days of holiday/year
  • Casual dress
  • Company events
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Flexible schedule
  • Private medical insurance
  • Optical and Dental cover
  • Generous paternity and maternity leave
  • Referral programme
  • Company sick pay
  • Team lunches

Lead Quant Developer

  • Design it: ensure that everything is designed not just for now, but for the growth of years to come, aligned with longer-term company strategy
  • Research it: test and iterate new model approaches based on our historical data sources
  • Build it: work to deliver great solutions that are proven to meet the needs of our partners as well as your operational colleagues
  • Test it: take personal responsibility for the quality of your output, by ensuring testing is part of everything you and the team do
  • Run it: ensure that everything is working as expected and go hunting for problems to solve
  • Document it: make sure we have top class and up to date technical and use case documentation 
  • Collaborate: constantly engage with your other team members to ensure that knowledge and best practice is shared, learn from Pythia Seniors and help onboard new team members
  • Lead and Mentor: support, guide and mentor junior members of the team, ensuring they approach modelling challenges appropriately, and deliver commercially viable solutions.

Key Skills / Qualifications

  • Highly experienced quant developer with experience in the betting industry, and ideally, an understanding of horse racing.
  • Material hands-on experience of delivering quant solutions using a scripting language like Python
  • Solid experience of software version control systems (preferably GitLab), and confident working with JIRA & Confluence and similar tools
  • Experience of Agile methodologies and of working with remote technical teams
  • Ability to work well in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and to pick up new skill sets quickly
  • A passion for detail and problem solving, with excellent verbal and written communication skills

Who you are:

  • Customer-focused: everything we do is with our partners and stakeholders in mind
  • Organised: staying on top of the detail and being able to multi-task will be crucial 
  • Analytical: you should be able to probe data from multiple sources in order to draw meaningful conclusions that help make our products more efficient and performant
  • Relevant: the marketplace, our competitors and our partners move fast, so you need to help us keep ahead by staying on top of trends and applying that to how we work
  • Team Player: building great teams is how we will succeed