Backend Technical Lead C#/.NET at 247Bet
Confidential
Lagos, Nigeria
Permanent
Published 1 month ago · Expires 1 week from now
Job description
## Title: Backend Technical Lead - C#/.NET
The Role
This is a hands-on technical leadership position where you'll spend 80% of your time coding and architecting, and 20% leading and mentoring. You'll own critical backend services, make key architectural decisions, and ensure the platform scales smoothly from thousands to millions of users. This role is ideal for someone who loves solving complex distributed systems problems and building high-performance APIs.
Technical Architecture & Development
- Design and build scalable microservices handling 100K+ requests/second
- Architect event-driven systems for real-time betting operations
- Implement high-performance APIs powering web and mobile clients
- Build distributed systems with zero data loss guarantees
- Optimize database queries processing millions of daily transactions
- Design fault-tolerant systems with automatic failover
- Own core services: betting engine, wallet system, odds calculation
Backend Engineering Excellence
- Write production code for critical system components
- Implement CQRS and event sourcing patterns
- Build real-time data pipelines for live odds updates
- Design idempotent APIs for payment processing
- Create robust integration with third-party providers
- Optimize system performance and latency
- Debug complex production issues
Team Leadership
- Lead team of 4-6 backend engineers
- Conduct code reviews ensuring high standards
- Mentor mid and junior engineers
- Drive technical decisions and trade-offs
- Facilitate architecture discussions
- Define coding standards and best practices
- Interview and help recruit backend talent
DevOps & Infrastructure
- Design CI/CD pipelines for zero-downtime deployments
- Implement infrastructure as code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
- Set up comprehensive monitoring and alerting
- Optimize cloud costs while maintaining performance
- Build auto-scaling strategies for traffic spikes
- Ensure security best practices across services
- Design disaster recovery and business continuity strategies