Frontend Engineering Team Lead - MarTech
As the Team Lead for the Frontend development team, Sporty Group is looking for an individual to play a key role in driving the architecture, development, and delivery of high-quality software solutions. This role involves leading a group of talented developers, ensuring smooth collaboration, technical innovation, and strong delivery results. 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 team of Frontend developers within the Marketing Tech and Social domain.
- Drive high-level architecture and design decisions for complex software systems, ensuring high performance, scalability, and code quality.
- Lead major technical migration projects, specifically executing the roadmap to transition the platform to Nuxt.js and Server-Side Rendering (SSR).
- Focus heavily on performance engineering, optimising site load speed, Core Web Vitals, and technical SEO for high-traffic environments.
- Maintain a heavily hands-on contribution level (coding, architecture, and code reviews) alongside line management responsibilities.
- Manage team members' performance, lead 1-on-1s, drive career development, and handle work allocation.
- Drive continuous improvement in development processes, modern tools, and delivery standards across the team.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional stakeholders, backend engineers, and product teams to refine requirements and ship high-quality features.
- 8+ years of software development experience with a primary focus on Frontend technologies (required)
- 2+ years of experience in a formal leadership or line management role (mentoring, performance evaluations, work allocation) (required)
- Strong technical mastery of JavaScript/TypeScript (ES6+), CSS preprocessors (Less/Sass), Webpack, and Git (required)
- Proven experience with state management architectures (e.g., Vuex, Redux, NgRx) (required)
- Experience planning and executing large-scale web migrations, particularly with Nuxt.js or Server-Side Rendering (SSR) frameworks (required)
- Strong track record in web performance engineering, Core Web Vitals optimisation, and technical SEO (required)
- Experience working in high-traffic, high-scale environments such as MarTech, AdTech, E-commerce, Betting, or Events platforms (required)
- Familiarity with modern end-to-end testing tools (e.g., Playwright) (nice-to-have)
- Basic awareness/understanding of backend environments (Java, SpringBoot) and DevOps concepts (AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins) (nice-to-have)
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills (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
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.