Backend Software Engineering Team Lead
As the Team Lead for the software development team, you will play a key role in driving the architecture, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions. You will lead a group of talented developers, ensuring smooth collaboration, technical innovation, and strong delivery results. Your responsibilities will encompass both hands-on coding and line management, helping the team grow, improve, and thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Lead and mentor a talented development team in the EU region, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture.
- Provide technical leadership and ensure best practices in software development, code quality, and architecture.
- Participate in high-level architecture and design decisions for complex software systems.
- Drive the development lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions.
- Conduct regular code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve the team’s skills and output.
- Manage team members' performance and career development.
- Help drive continuous improvement in development processes, tools, and techniques.
- 8+ years of experience in software development, with a strong focus on backend technologies (e.g. Java, Node.js, Python, Go, etc.) (required)
- 2+ years of experience in a leadership role, with experience in mentoring, performance reviews, work allocation (required)
- Strong experience in software architecture and designing scalable, reliable systems (required)
- Hands-on experience in backend development, with expertise in APIs and microservices (required)
- Excellent communication skills in English and the ability to manage and collaborate within a remote, diverse team (required)
- A passion for technology and innovation, with a drive to solve complex technical challenges (required)
- A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Core working hours are 10am-3pm in your local time zone with flexibility outside of this
- Referral bonuses & flash bonuses
- Top of the line equipment
- Annual company retreats to provide great internal networking opportunities
Sporty Group is a sports technology company whose brands include SportyBet, a mobile-first sportsbook licensed in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda, alongside the Sporty.com app and the SportyTV broadcast service in Nigeria. SportyBet has sponsorship partnerships with Real Madrid and Manchester City. The group hires across Europe, Latin America and Asia, and many of its technology and product roles are remote.