{"id":2372,"date":"2026-07-21T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/head-of-engineering\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:06:27","slug":"head-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobs.dataaxisnode.com\/nigeria\/jobs\/lagos\/head-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\/\", \"@type\": \"JobPosting\", \"title\": \"Head of Engineering\", \"description\": \"The Role\\nYou will own the entire technology function at 247 Labs, reporting directly to the CEO. You'll lead our engineering organisation - backend, frontend, mobile, QA, and DevOps, through launch and into scale, and be accountable for the reliability, security, and performance of a 24\/7 real-money platform handling live betting, payment processing, and social features for thousands of concurrent users.\\nThis is a hands-on leadership role at a decisive stage. You'll set technical direction, build and develop a high-performing team, and stay close enough to the code to make the hard architectural calls yourself. Your standards become the company's standards.\\nWhat You'll Do\\nOwn the technical roadmap and architecture across the platform: bet placement & settlement, wallet & payments, live sports data ingestion, communities, and social feed\\nLead, grow, and mentor the engineering team \u2014 hiring, performance, and career development across backend, frontend, mobile, QA, and DevOps\\nSet and enforce engineering standards: code quality, testing, code review culture, CI\/CD, and documentation\\nDrive reliability and operational excellence \u2014 SLOs, monitoring, alerting, on-call, and incident response for a 24\/7 real-money platform\\nMake build-vs-buy and vendor decisions, and own technical relationships with data, trading, payments, and fraud providers\\nOwn security, availability, and regulatory-facing technical compliance for a licensed gaming operator\\nPartner with product, trading, and marketing leadership to translate business goals into delivery plans \u2014 and hit launch dates\\nManage engineering budget, cloud spend AWS\/EKS, and tooling\\nStay hands-on where it matters: architecture reviews, critical design decisions, and unblocking the team in C# \/ .NET, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka\\nWhat We're Looking For\\n10+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years leading engineering teams Head of Engineering, Engineering Manager, or equivalent\\nDeep backend expertise \u2014 C# \/ .NET strongly preferred, but we'll take a great leader from a JVM or Go background who can go deep in our stack\\nProven experience running production systems at scale: high availability, low latency, real-time workloads\\nHands-on background with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka or equivalent, and cloud infrastructure \u2014 AWS preferred; Kubernetes\/EKS a strong plus\\nTrack record of hiring, mentoring, and retaining strong engineers \u2014 and raising the bar for an entire organisation\\nExperience owning delivery end to end: planning, prioritisation, and shipping on aggressive timelines without sacrificing quality\\nExcellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including founders, regulators, and external partners\\nPrior experience in betting, gaming, fintech, or high-transaction-volume platforms is a strong advantage\\nNice to Have\\nExperience taking a real-money or regulated platform from build to launch\\nFamiliarity with sportsbook integrations odds feeds, managed trading services and payment provider ecosystems\\nExposure to observability tooling \u2014 Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent\\nExperience with mobile release cycles React Native and BFF patterns for mobile and web\\nExperience working across African markets, especially Nigeria\", \"datePosted\": \"2026-07-21\", \"hiringOrganization\": {\"@type\": \"Organization\", \"name\": \"247Bet\"}, \"jobLocation\": {\"@type\": \"Place\", \"address\": {\"@type\": \"PostalAddress\", \"addressLocality\": \"Lagos\", \"addressCountry\": \"NG\"}}, \"directApply\": true, \"validThrough\": \"2026-08-04T23:59:59\", \"employmentType\": \"FULL_TIME\"}<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Company:<\/strong> 247Bet<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> Lagos<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Type:<\/strong> Full Time , Hybrid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apply Before:<\/strong> 2026-08-04<\/p>\n<h3>Job Description<\/h3>\n<p>The Role<br \/>You will own the entire technology function at 247 Labs, reporting directly to the CEO. You&#8217;ll lead our engineering organisation &#8211; backend, frontend, mobile, QA, and DevOps, through launch and into scale, and be accountable for the reliability, security, and performance of a 24\/7 real-money platform handling live betting, payment processing, and social features for thousands of concurrent users.<br \/>This is a hands-on leadership role at a decisive stage. You&#8217;ll set technical direction, build and develop a high-performing team, and stay close enough to the code to make the hard architectural calls yourself. Your standards become the company&#8217;s standards.<br \/>What You&#8217;ll Do<br \/>Own the technical roadmap and architecture across the platform: bet placement &#038; settlement, wallet &#038; payments, live sports data ingestion, communities, and social feed<br \/>Lead, grow, and mentor the engineering team \u2014 hiring, performance, and career development across backend, frontend, mobile, QA, and DevOps<br \/>Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, testing, code review culture, CI\/CD, and documentation<br \/>Drive reliability and operational excellence \u2014 SLOs, monitoring, alerting, on-call, and incident response for a 24\/7 real-money platform<br \/>Make build-vs-buy and vendor decisions, and own technical relationships with data, trading, payments, and fraud providers<br \/>Own security, availability, and regulatory-facing technical compliance for a licensed gaming operator<br \/>Partner with product, trading, and marketing leadership to translate business goals into delivery plans \u2014 and hit launch dates<br \/>Manage engineering budget, cloud spend AWS\/EKS, and tooling<br \/>Stay hands-on where it matters: architecture reviews, critical design decisions, and unblocking the team in C# \/ .NET, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka<br \/>What We&#8217;re Looking For<br \/>10+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years leading engineering teams Head of Engineering, Engineering Manager, or equivalent<br \/>Deep backend expertise \u2014 C# \/ .NET strongly preferred, but we&#8217;ll take a great leader from a JVM or Go background who can go deep in our stack<br \/>Proven experience running production systems at scale: high availability, low latency, real-time workloads<br \/>Hands-on background with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka or equivalent, and cloud infrastructure \u2014 AWS preferred; Kubernetes\/EKS a strong plus<br \/>Track record of hiring, mentoring, and retaining strong engineers \u2014 and raising the bar for an entire organisation<br \/>Experience owning delivery end to end: planning, prioritisation, and shipping on aggressive timelines without sacrificing quality<br \/>Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including founders, regulators, and external partners<br \/>Prior experience in betting, gaming, fintech, or high-transaction-volume platforms is a strong advantage<br \/>Nice to Have<br \/>Experience taking a real-money or regulated platform from build to launch<br \/>Familiarity with sportsbook integrations odds feeds, managed trading services and payment provider ecosystems<br \/>Exposure to observability tooling \u2014 Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent<br \/>Experience with mobile release cycles React Native and BFF patterns for mobile and web<br \/>Experience working across African markets, especially Nigeria<\/p>\n<h3>How to Apply<\/h3>\n<p>Send CVs to careers@247bet.ng<br \/>Build your CV for free. Download in different templates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:careers@247bet.ng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" style=\"display:inline-block;padding:10px 20px;background:#2271b1;color:#fff;text-decoration:none;border-radius:4px;\">Apply Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p><small>Source: MyJobMag<\/small><\/p>\n<p><!-- job-expiry: 2026-08-04 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company: 247Bet Location: Lagos Job Type: Full Time , Hybrid Apply Before: 2026-08-04 Job Description The RoleYou will own the entire technology function at 247 Labs, reporting directly to the CEO. 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