At Mustard Systems, we leverage statistical modeling to dive into sports events and help us make informed predictions about future outcomes. By utilising our unique datasets, advanced statistical models, and custom-built software, we strive to accurately forecast sports results.
We value quick delivery and real-world impact over perfect code. If you’re an engineer who thrives on solving problems quickly and enjoys a flexible, outcome-focused culture, you’ll fit right in.
What You’ll Work On:
- Expand our access to new liquidity providers, through advanced web scraping and reverse engineering techniques.
- Develop and maintain low-latency real-time data feeds, based on the data extracted, to support trading strategies
- Enhance system visibility for our teams to provide insight into integration issues and improvements.
We work with an agile approach, following a flexible plan that adapts to new information and opportunities as they arise. Developers are a core part of this process, taking full ownership of their software throughout its lifecycle—from design and development to testing, review, and production support.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and Build Impactful Features: Develop new features that align with and drive our business goals, delivering high-quality code that brings measurable value.
- Collaborate on Code Quality: Review and test code from teammates to ensure functionality, maintainability, performance, and quality standards.
- Support in Production: Take ownership of your team’s software in production, ensuring stability and quickly addressing any issues that arise.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with other development teams on cross-functional projects, and partner with traders and quants to design and implement the best solutions to real business problems.
- Participate in Out of Hours Support for our Software Systems.
Core Tech Stack:
- Languages: Python (Python 3.10+), JavaScript/TypeScript for frontend work, and Go for select infrastructure
- Tools: RabbitMQ and Kafka for messaging, PostgreSQL and Redis for data storage
- Environment: Linux servers
- Observability: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana and Zabbix
Requirements
Must-Haves:
- Strong background in software development, with strong experience with Python.
- A degree in Computer Science or a numerical subject from a top university.
- Exceptional communication skills, enabling you to convey complex technical ideas clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Strong decision-making abilities, with a knack for making thoughtful trade-offs in both implementation and architectural choices, balancing innovation and practicality.
- Experience with web scraping and reverse engineering techniques, including working against bot protection tooling.
- At least 3 years experience in software development
Nice-to-Haves:
- Familiarity with building event-driven systems
- Comfort with Linux/Unix environments
- Track record of driving successful cloud migrations, ideally to AWS, including setting up secure, scalable account and access structures.
Benefits
Why join Mustard Systems?
- Hybrid working environment. We're in the office every Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, and work from home every Wednesday and Friday
- Work on cutting-edge systems in a competitive and innovative field.
- Collaborate with a smart, driven team, where your contributions directly impact business performance.
- Opportunity to drive the company’s technical direction and double its revenue in the next three years.
Comprehensive benefits, including:
- Competitive salary and significant bonus potential
- Enhanced pension match with salary sacrifice option.
- Health insurance and life assurance.
- Sabbatical leave after five years.
- 33 days of annual leave (including bank holidays).
