Senior Quant Developer

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.Key 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.QualificationsEssential· 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.Desirable:· 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.Personal:· 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.Is this the role for you?