Fitzdares

Fitzdares is a members only bookmakers located in Notting Hill. We pride ourselves on delievering the best customer experience.

Last year we launched our bespoke in house trading platform to huge success. Parts of the system include: taking big data arriving over a satellite link, render it in a rich and fast UI to multiple (mobile) clients so they can initiate enormous transactions backed by complex domain logic. Securely, and do it in under a second.

We are looking for a full time member of staff to join our mix of in-house and freelance development team, and would be looking for someone who could work in the office.

Some of your responsibilities would be, but not limited to:

Prototyping new ideas
Investigating new technologies
Implementing new features
Maintaining code
Supporting the other developers

Essential technologies:

HTML
Javascript
Ruby
Rails
MySQL
Keen mind to learn!!!

Bonus points:

Any of the technologies listed below
Your sporting knowledge should include
- Being able to spell Football

Other technologies:

SASS
CoffeeScript
jQuery
Backbonejs
HAML
Websockets
Capistrano
Jasmine
Cucumber
Capybara
RSpec
JenkinsCI
Linux
Git
Puppet

Pay and benefits:

We offer competitive pay based on your competencies, experience, and skills.
You would be included in the generous company bonus and pension scheme.

If you're interested in a position where you're given lots of responsibility and plenty of room to grow and develop, please take the test below. Once you've finished please e-mail your solution to either Simon (simon@fitzdares.com) or Ed (ed@fitzdares.com)

Welcome to FitzBucks

Background

A Client is watching a Football match and decides they want to have a bet. They contact us and ask to place a bet on the Football match. We then create a football bet. The bet will then be settled after the football match finishes.

If the client's bet won, we will pay them some money. The pay out (returns) is the stake and the winning amount (our loss). If the result is a loser, we won't pay them anything and keep the stake (our profit).

At the end of the month we need to know what our profit and losses are.

As we like analytics, we would like to know the profit and losses based on the sport of the bet. This is so we can see which sports the clients are winning or losing in.

The Challenge

We have an application that shows the Profit/Loss (P/L) By Client. This can be found here:

http://localhost:3000/profit_loss_client/new

This report gives you a list of Clients; their total stakes, returns and P/L; and a headline figure of all combined clients.

We would like you to create a report that shows the overall P/L for the clients, that can then be broken down into P/L totals by sport. For example, we want to see a client's total P/L, and a list of sports. Each sport should have its own P/L, based on the client's bets for that sport. We have supplied you with only 6 months worth of test data. The date range for the bets is between 01/01/2014 and 30/06/2014 inclusive.

This report should be called "P/L By Client By Sport".

You should consider how a larger and more complex data set will affect the reports and try to cater for these situations. Also, think about how to format the report so that the data can be digested easily. We want to see how you approach the problem, how you would solve it and most importantly what your code looks like. Do whatever you think shows your abilities best.

You are allowed to change any part of the application, and feel free to use the example report format as a basis for your report or you can come up with your own.

Testing is encouraged; we use RSpec and Cucumber.

Please use the local Git repo supplied with this application and use the "solution" branch.

Setup

To setup the application run the following commands:

$ cd fitzbucks
$ bundle install
$ rake db:schema:load
$ rake db:populate
$ rails s

This will seed the database with all the required data. Now we're ready to start the server and begin the challenge!

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