Senior engineering for racing and betting
A small, senior engineering studio for racing and betting. We build trading systems, racing platforms and betting infrastructure, and we run them in production.
What we do
Betting software needs racing knowledge, an understanding of how money moves, and engineering that holds up under load. We have delivered all three together, in production.
01 · Racing
Form, fields, going, non-runners, in-running prices, ratings and pedigree. We have built for exchange, tote, fixed-odds and ownership products, and we understand how racing data and markets behave on a busy Saturday.
02 · Money
Wagers, wallets, settlement and payouts, and the KYC, payments and regulated flows around them. We build the parts that move real money, with the reconciliation and audit trail that finance teams and regulators expect.
03 · Software
Real-time feeds, tick-level data, low-latency execution and automation that runs unattended. Deployed to the cloud or on self-managed infrastructure, monitored, and designed to keep up with markets that reprice every second.
Trading
Two plain rules, run over the same recorded market as the replay above. Every fill comes from a price and size the exchange actually showed, so the P&L is what the book allowed, not what a model assumed.
Track record
Four recent engagements, anonymised. We do not name clients.
Engagement · Trading
Trading systems for a professional racing wagering operation.
Engagement · Consumer
A consumer micro-syndication platform for racehorse ownership in Australia, in a regulated market.
Engagement · Infrastructure
Tote data ingestion and odds distribution for a licensed wagering operator.
Engagement · Bloodstock
Data and analysis tools for a professional bloodstock trading operation.
Integrations
Bloodstock
Two real sales, anonymised: 161 two-year-olds from the Arqana Breeze Up and 1,144 yearlings from the Magic Millions Gold Coast sale. Breeze ranks against price, and every sire's record at a glance. Buyers and vendors are not shown.
Approach
Our systems run live for trading operations, consumer platforms, bloodstock businesses and betting infrastructure providers. We do not name clients, and that discretion is part of the service.
We have spent years working in racing and betting markets. You will not need to explain the domain to us.
Systems that settle real money need regression tests, reconciliation and monitoring. We build to that standard from the start.
You work directly with the people writing the code. No account managers and no handoffs.
We keep client work confidential, sign NDAs where required, and never trade against the systems we build.
Regulated flows
The onboarding state machine behind a regulated Australian ownership product: a fictional customer, scripted checks, and the audit trail a regulator asks for.
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Contact
Tell us what you are building. A short call is usually enough to work out whether we are a good fit.
or write to hello@sonicswan.co.uk