Head of Engineering at 247Bet

The Role


You 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.
This 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.


What You'll Do


Own the technical roadmap and architecture across the platform: bet placement & settlement, wallet & payments, live sports data ingestion, communities, and social feed
Lead, grow, and mentor the engineering team — hiring, performance, and career development across backend, frontend, mobile, QA, and DevOps
Set and enforce engineering standards: code quality, testing, code review culture, CI/CD, and documentation
Drive reliability and operational excellence — SLOs, monitoring, alerting, on-call, and incident response for a 24/7 real-money platform
Make build-vs-buy and vendor decisions, and own technical relationships with data, trading, payments, and fraud providers
Own security, availability, and regulatory-facing technical compliance for a licensed gaming operator
Partner with product, trading, and marketing leadership to translate business goals into delivery plans — and hit launch dates
Manage engineering budget, cloud spend (AWS/EKS), and tooling
Stay hands-on where it matters: architecture reviews, critical design decisions, and unblocking the team in C# / .NET, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Kafka


What We're Looking For


10+ years of engineering experience, including 4+ years leading engineering teams (Head of Engineering, Engineering Manager, or equivalent)
Deep backend expertise — C# / .NET strongly preferred, but we'll take a great leader from a JVM or Go background who can go deep in our stack
Proven experience running production systems at scale: high availability, low latency, real-time workloads
Hands-on background with PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka (or equivalent), and cloud infrastructure — AWS preferred; Kubernetes/EKS a strong plus
Track record of hiring, mentoring, and retaining strong engineers — and raising the bar for an entire organisation
Experience owning delivery end to end: planning, prioritisation, and shipping on aggressive timelines without sacrificing quality
Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including founders, regulators, and external partners
Prior experience in betting, gaming, fintech, or high-transaction-volume platforms is a strong advantage


Nice to Have


Experience taking a real-money or regulated platform from build to launch
Familiarity with sportsbook integrations (odds feeds, managed trading services) and payment provider ecosystems
Exposure to observability tooling — Datadog, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent
Experience with mobile release cycles (React Native) and BFF patterns for mobile and web
Experience working across African markets, especially Nigeria