Software Engineer in Leeds

Company Overview

Angstrom is a proprietary sports pricing and product provider, building intricate, simulation driven pricing and risk systems to support the success of key sports brands across the Entain group. Founded in 2018 and having established itself as a pioneer in player-level, play-by-play simulations and forecasting, Angstrom was acquired by Entain in 2023. Today, we operate as a semi-autonomous division, responsible for delivering the group’s most advanced pricing and risk capabilities with a focus on the US market. We’re committed to building the next generation of sports betting products — sports-first, recreationally-focused, and designed to make betting more engaging, more intelligent, and more fun. We’re proud to be a high-performing, low-ego team where brilliant people are empowered and people work to become brilliant. While we’re ambitious and delivery-driven, we take real pride in how we operate and the health of our independent culture, underpinned by mutual trust and respect.

Job Description

As a Software Engineer within Angstrom’s Modelling & Data Engineering department, you will be working in a fast paced, delivery focused environment, playing a critical role in helping a young and fast-growing company to improve processes and drive the implementation of new Models & Technologies.

Key Responsibilities

• Write clean, scalable code using .NET programming languages.
• Work on Greenfield Projects to help build a wide span of tooling to facilitate the modelling of the business.
• Be a part of a team that is responsible for collecting data needed to empower the models as well as processing the models and handling their output.
• Drive the implementation of new technologies to reduce technical debt and improve application performance and maintainability.
• Work closely with other areas of the Modelling & Data Engineering department to manage the tooling life cycle and delivery.

Qualifications

Essential:

• A degree (PhD, MSc, BSc) in a STEM subject, preferably Computer Science, or similar provable programming skills.
• A qualification/certification from within our chosen tech stack/vendors (.NET, AWS).
• Demonstrate competent programming skills in the areas of data structures, and high-performance computing, by using Design Patterns and SOLID Principles.
• Experience (1+ year) working on the .Net Framework as a Software Engineer, particularly .NET 5+.
• Familiarity with SQL and experience (1+ year) working with relational databases.
• Experience (1+ year) using Kafka or equivalent distributed event store and stream-processing platform.
• Experience (1+ year) working with Redis or equivalent in memory storage.
• Experience (1+ year) working with AWS S3, Athena, ECS, Cloud Formation, Lambdas & Cloudwatch.
• Experience (1+ year) with concurrent development source control (GIT).
• Systems integration experience (1+ year) with networking, data migrations, API integration and design.
• Commitment to delivering clean systems, including documentation, logging, and reproducibility.
• Excellent presentation, documentation, time management, communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively and autonomously.
• Strong problem-solving skills with an analytical outlook.
• A keen interest in American sports (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAAB, NCAAF), Cricket, Tennis or Soccer.
• Experience working with Data Scientists and Data Engineers, working in data teams.
• Mathematics skills such as dealing with matrices, probabilities, and statistics.

We prefer candidates who are confident with C#, but we are open to considering those with limited C# experience if they have strong Java background and relevant industry experience, or can demonstrate a genuine personal interest in our sector (Betting & Gaming, Gambling, iGaming, or American Sports).

Additional Information

At Entain, we know that signing top players requires a great starting package, and plenty of support to inspire peak performance. Join us, and a competitive salary is just the beginning. Depending on your role and location, you can expect to receive benefits like:

• Generous group bonus scheme
• Hybrid working - 2 days in the office
• Private medical insurance
• Pension Scheme - matched to 6%
• Ability to buy and sell holiday
• Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development
• Sharesave Scheme

And outside of this, you’ll have the chance to turn recognition from leaders and colleagues into amazing prizes. Join a winning team of talented people and be a part of an inclusive and supporting community where everyone is celebrated for being themselves. Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.