Principal Backend Software Engineer

Role Overview

What You’ll Be Doing**

• Architect the future: design, implement, and evolve distributed systems that handle high throughput and millions of concurrent transactions.
• Provide technical leadership: act as a go-to expert for backend and infrastructure topics, mentoring teams and raising the overall engineering bar.
• Optimize performance: identify bottlenecks and design scalable solutions that improve availability, latency, and cost efficiency.
• Drive reliability: establish solid standards for monitoring, alerting, and incident management, ensuring our systems are observable and resilient.
• Collaborate across teams: partner with product and business leaders to translate ideas into clear technical strategies and execution plans.
• Improve continuously: challenge existing solutions, propose better patterns, and keep us aligned with modern practices in distributed systems and DevOps.
• Lead by example: write clean, maintainable code; review peers’ work; and ensure consistent engineering quality across services.
• Be part of on-call rotations for critical systems, focusing on root-cause prevention, not firefighting.

Requirements

**We’re looking for someone who thrives in complexity and is driven by the pursuit of excellence. To succeed in this role, you’ll need:

• 10+ years of engineering leadership, with a proven track record of delivering large-scale, distributed systems.
• Expertise in some cloud architectures (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), DevOps practices (CI/CD), Microservices (AKS), Kafka/RabbitMQ streams and programming languages (C#, or others).
• Demonstrated ability to quickly address production incidents and implement preventive measures to avoid recurrence.
• Proven capability to maintain product quality through unit testing and end-to-end testing processes.
• The ability to foresee future challenges, craft innovative solutions, and implement strategies that drive meaningful impact.
• Exceptional communication skills to work effectively across teams and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• While iGaming experience is a plus, what matters most is your ability to solve real-world problems with creativity and precision.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Kafka
• Microservices
• RabbitMQ

Benefits

• Hybrid work model
• 2 days onsite, 3 remote.
• Competitive annual leave allowance + public holidays + your birthday off.
• Private medical cover.
• Flexible compensation plan for meals and transport.
• Discretionary annual bonus based on company and individual performance*
• Regular team breakfasts, offsites, and local events.
• Work with global teams across Nigeria, South Africa, Malta, Madrid & the UK.

*Discretionary bonus eligibility is subject to onboarding cycle and start date. Employees joining after 1 October 2026 may not be eligible for the current bonus cycle.

KingMakers is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building diverse, inclusive teams that reflect the communities and markets we serve across Africa and beyond, regardless of background, identity, race, gender or experience.