Job Description
Smarkets is a betting exchange for sports and political events that has handled £29 billion in traded volume since 2010. Our goal is to fix the sports betting industry by creating a transparent platform that offers the best value for users, with not only the best odds but also the latest technology, alongside an amazing customer experience.We are searching for an experienced CTO to lead and grow our engineering team. The engineering team is at the heart of everything we do and as such this is a key hire that will report directly to the CEO. The CTO will be empowered to structure the engineering team and shape product development at a company renowned for its technical care and excellence.What You’ll be Responsible For
- Scaling our engineering teams globally
- Attracting and retaining the best talent for our team
- Ensuring that our engineering teams consistently deliver the right things at the right time
- Owning the product development processes from start to finish
- Scalability and reliability of a large-scale microservices-based software architecture
- Representing the engineering team internally
- Promoting Smarkets as a tech company externally
About you
- Experience in growing and managing engineering teams of size 50+
- Background in consumer tech
- Highly technical with a proven experience of building scalable and resilient software stacks
- A decisive individual who deals well with uncertainty and thrives on challenge
- Ability and willingness to change course quickly and a bias towards action
- Excellent communicator in both spoken and written form
- Cares deeply about the product you are putting in the hands of customers
- Maintains high energy and a contagious enthusiasm for technical challenge
Our Values
- Push to win
- Make others better
- Give a shit
- Be a pro
- Bring the energy
Our Culture
Our vision at Smarkets is to fix the betting industry with the best products and prices. Smarkets is a Series B-funded company that brings a professional, tech-led approach to the sports and political betting industry with a sophisticated platform that has handled over £29 billion in traded volume.
We embrace collaboration, trust, innovation and scientific rigour, while we celebrate ambitious goals and passionate energy. We push ourselves to be the best and lean into challenges to ensure that we are continually developing at both an individual and organisational level. This has enabled us to be where we are today and will lead us to where we want to be next.
Our culture rewards people on merit and excellence and we strive to provide a working environment where recognition, challenges, support, collaboration, interesting benefits and shared meals provided by our chefs mix together to let you unlock your potential, grow with us and become your best self.
Smarkets is an equal opportunities employer and takes active steps to prevent bias and discrimination in our interview process. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or gender identity.
We will not be providing visa sponsorship for this role.