Expires soon Quantbet

Graduate Football Trader

  • Graduate job
  • Leeds (West Yorkshire)

Job description

QuantBet is an automated sports betting specialist. We design, develop and maintain a high-speed automated sports betting platform.

Your role will be to work closely with other traders, developers and quants to complete your duties. Some of these include:

  • Comparing daily match fixtures from multiple sources and use custom software to map external team and competition names to an internal representation

  • Check for historical errors in our database and fix when these arise

  • Use custom software to monitor the health and performance of our live betting platform. Perform regular objective checks on various KPI statistics vs their expected values, as well as more subjective performance checks

  • You will investigate the causes of abnormal behaviour and look for explaining factors. You will gain a good working knowledge our system which consists of many separate software applications running on several cloud servers around the world

  • Maintain and provide department documentation

  • Provide recommendations for improvements to internal software / processes, with the (unachievable) aim of automating the entire role

  • Ensure models are not exposed to high risk scenarios, through data we see coming from bookmakers and watching live TV pictures

  • Communication of trading developments to other traders

  • Collect and compile data from external sources for internal use on request


Essential:

  • You must possess strong numerical skills

  • Flexible with regard to shift patterns as you will be required to work weekends and evenings

  • Attention to detail

  • Ability to perform multiple tasks

  • Understanding of bet types and odds

  • Self-motivated

  • Comprehensive knowledge of Football


Desirable:

  • Plays football manager computer game

  • Use of MongoDB tools to view/edit our database

  • Experience in betting on Asian Handicaps and knowledge of Asian Bookmakers

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