Software Engineer: Platform & Reliability

At KingMakers, we’re not here to follow the industry, we’re here to define it.

We are a proudly homegrown African company, building the future of sports and iGaming entertainment across the continent. Since our launch in 2018, we’ve created platforms that connect millions of fans to the excitement they love through our leading brands, BetKing and SuperSportBet.

From Nigeria to South Africa, we’ve rapidly grown into a powerhouse, recognized for raising standards, pushing boundaries, and shaping what’s next in our industry. Our vision is bold: to be the home where Africa plays.

Collaboration, innovation, and fearless execution define our culture. Every decision is purposeful, every interaction impactful, and every product designed to serve our players and partners with excellence.

We move fast, stay curious, and constantly raise the bar. Our mission is to deliver entertainment with integrity, innovation, and impact — because great products can change how entire communities experience play.

We’re looking for a Software Engineer – Platform & Reliability who thrives at the intersection of coding and infrastructure. This isn’t a traditional DevOps role — you’ll be embedded directly into product squads, contributing to their codebases, making pull requests, and helping teams level up their observability, reliability, and performance.

If you love learning new systems, enjoy writing production-grade code, and want to shape how engineering squads build, scale, and operate software, we’d love to hear from you.

• Contribute directly to product codebases (primarily .NET and React) to improve observability, reliability, security, and platform integration.
• Drive adoption of OpenTelemetry (OTEL) by instrumenting services and building clear, actionable telemetry pipelines.
• Partner with engineering squads to design and automate infrastructure (Terraform, AKS, Azure) that scales with their products.
• Champion security best practices across code and infrastructure — from secrets management to least-privilege access and secure CI/CD pipelines.
• Enhance monitoring, metrics, and dashboards in Grafana, ensuring signals are useful, not just noisy.
• Collaborate with teams on defining SLIs, SLOs, and alerting strategies to ensure world-class reliability.
• Build tooling, automation, and libraries that make engineers faster and more productive.
• Act as a bridge between product engineering and platform engineering, advocating for best practices while staying hands-on in the code.

What we’re looking for

• Solid programming skills in at least one major language — C#/.NET strongly preferred; Go, Python, or others also valued.
• Ability to design, review, and contribute code to production systems (please be ready to share examples of your work).
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred), infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), and container orchestration (Kubernetes, AKS).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, ideally Azure DevOps.
• Practical understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP, HTTP, headers, debugging with tools like Postman).
• Knowledge of security fundamentals — including secure coding, cloud security, and identity/access management.
• Experience in medium-to-large engineering organisations where speed, reliability, and collaboration matter.
• Curiosity and self-driven learning — you’ll often be the one figuring things out first, then helping others succeed.

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, OpenTelemetry).
• Knowledge of databases (SQL Server, NoSQL systems).
• Exposure to Nginx or load balancing technologies.
• A security-first mindset, with an eye for efficiency and performance.
• Experience collaborating across distributed or remote teams.

How you do it – Expectations for fulfilling your role:  

At KingMakers, how we do things matters as much as what we do. We live by our CROWNS values, and you’ll thrive here if you:

• Customer First – You keep our customers at the center of every decision.
• Raise the Bar – You push for better, smarter, more innovative solutions.
• Operate with Candor – You’re open, honest, and direct, always playing the ball, not the person.
• We Build Together – You collaborate across teams and borders to win as one.
• No Hesitation, Never Reckless – You move fast, take bold steps, but never compromise on responsibility.
• Speed & Iteration – You value momentum, continuous learning, and progress over perfection.

• Health Support: A monthly allowance to invest in your health and wellbeing
• Comprehensive Insurance: Extra protection and peace of mind for you and your loved ones
• Future Planning: Employer contributions towards your long-term financial security
• Performance Bonus: Discretionary rewards that celebrate your impact
• Convenience at Work: Free reserved parking at the office
• Hybrid Work: A flexible arrangement with 2 days in the office and 3 days remote each week