Jobs Career Advice Post Job
X

Send this job to a friend

X

Did you notice an error or suspect this job is scam? Tell us.

  • Posted: Apr 20, 2026
    Deadline: Not specified
    • @gmail.com
    • @yahoo.com
    • @outlook.com
  • SportyBet - No 1 in Africa As recommended by Footballing Legend Kanu Nwankwo


    Read more about this company

     

    Operations Director, Payments

    About the role

    As the Director of Payment Operations at Sporty, you’ll be responsible for owning the payment operations strategies whilst providing leadership and expertise in the field of payments for our products used by millions of daily global users. You'll collaborate with talented stakeholders across our remote-working organisation to work on improvements, optimisation initiatives, and integrations to ensure the best payment experience for our customers.

    We are passionate about caring for our customers and we ensure we are up to date with our latest product development in the Sporty ecosystem so we are able to offer the best experience.

    What you'll be doing

    • Define, own, and manage core payment operations, core metrics including our KPIs in the area of payment acceptance rates, payment performance, conversion, compliance, cost, and more
    • Oversee the development and implementation of comprehensive fraud prevention and risk management strategies, policies, and procedures to safeguard the organisation's assets and minimise financial losses
    • Continuously analysing market trends across the payment space in order to increase the quality and efficiency of our customers experience
    • Monitor business and process metrics in order to identify solutions and deliver improvements related to core metrics and KPIs
    • Oversee the investigations of suspected fraudulent activities, ensuring timely and thorough analysis of data, documentation, and evidence
    • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product and engineering to solve local challenges and deliver enhanced CX
    • Recruit, manage, lead, and motivate a team of professionals, ensuring the team builds and maintains a deep understanding of our technology and customers
    • Assess and manage changing payment landscapes and evolving industry trends whilst remaining current on all changes to regulations and systems
    • Ensuring the payments team are remaining current on industry trends
    • Establish and revise policy, enforcing and implementing compliance directives, reviewing system enhancements, and assessing operational needs
    • Ensure end user issues are resolved in a timely manner
    • Manage, recruit and train a team of payment specialists across different geographies
    • Act as a primary POC with network partners to resolve ongoing production issues

    What you'll bring

    • Fluency in both written and spoken English
    • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance or a related field
    • Advance knowledge of global payment systems, region specific rules and regulations
    • Payment operations experience across tech / fintech / gaming industry is an advantage
    • Proven experience in fraud, risk, KYC, investigation, and risk management
    • Expert experience managing, leading and building a wider team
    • Strong analytical and decision-making skills, with the ability to use data and metrics to drive improvements in payment operations
    • Experienced owning and and solving complex payment issues
    • Understanding of Compliance and Risk Awareness 

    What's in it for you

    • Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
    • A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
    • 28 days paid annual leave
    • Our 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

    go to method of application »

    Data Analyst

    As a Data Analyst at Sporty, you’ll be mining through petabytes of data to provide key insights that drive core business decisions. You’ll create dashboards that are used on a daily basis by product managers, traders, and executives, as well as provide in-depth reports on various areas of the business with complete freedom on your methodology.

    Furthermore, our analysts play a key role in ensuring the stability of our reporting infrastructure. They are vital in maintaining our ability to deliver accurate and consistent reporting to the various stakeholders. 

    Our Stack

    • MySQL
    • Python
    • AirFlow
    • AWS
    • Metabase
    • Redshift
    • Linux

    What you'll be doing

    • Analysing large and complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, and actionable insights that support business decision-making.
    • Designing, defining, and monitoring  core business KPIs to evaluate product and operational performance.
    • Partnering with product, marketing, and business teams to translate business questions into structured data analysis.
    • Delivering clear, concise, and data-driven insights to stakeholders and shareholders through presentations and reports.
    • Developing and maintaining dashboards and reporting frameworks that enable self-service analytics.
    • Conducting ad hoc analysis to support strategic initiatives and emerging business needs.
    • Ensuring data quality and integrity by validating datasets and collaborating with data engineering teams when needed.

    What you'll bring

    • 3+ years experience in a similar data-driven role 
    • Excellent working knowledge of SQL 
    • Familiarity with Python and a range of BI and data visualization tools
    • Strong knowledge with ETL data pipelines
    • Strong knowledge of A/B Testing
    • Familiarity with Airflow
    • Understanding of principles of relational databases and data warehouse 
    • Strong understanding of sports and gaming will be beneficial 
    • Proactive and self-driven with excellent analytical skills 
    • Ability to thrive in a fast paced and dynamic environment 
    • Great communication skills

    go to method of application »

    Senior QA Engineer

    n this role you will be responsible for ensuring the quality of every release that goes out. Sporty isn’t like other organisations that just see QA as a blocker - we give our QA team members the power you need to do your job, including deciding what is ready for launch and what needs more work. You will be acting as a Hybrid QA Engineer with the skills you bring in on both Manual testing and automation processes. You will be involved at every step of the development process, from requirements capture and estimation, all the way through to final testing and launching. You must be based in the EU timezone to ensure collaboration with the rest of the team daily.

    Our Stack

    • Programming language: Python
    • DB: MySQL / Mongo DB
    • DevOps: AWS / Jenkins / K8S
    • Web: Selenium / Playwright/ Postman
    • Mobile: Appium / Android Studio / XCode

    What you'll be doing

    • Testing (black box, white box, integration, and performance) of the Web and Android / iOS platforms
    • Track and record product issues and analyse the problems through various tools, giving feedback to relevant personnel to make corrections
    • Write test plans / test cases and output test reports according to feature requirementsShare test-related information with other team members
    • Simulate user needs and actual usage scenarios from a user perspective
    • Actively participate in team discussions, challenge requirements, and acceptance criteria to ensure clarity and testability
    • Create automated Web / Mobile / API test cases
    • Track and analyse automated tests to improve test efficiency
    • Develop automated tests and test frameworks
    • Improve our Continuous Integration pipeline
    • Help automate all aspects of the software engineering process
    • Review designs and code done by others and provide constructive feedback
    • Continuously develop your own skills 
    • Mentor less experienced members of the team
    • Identify and execute on opportunities to improve or establish quality processes

    What you'll bring

    • 3+ years of testing experience
    • Solid understanding of testing types: unit, integration, end-to-end, regression, stress/performance, and API testing
    • Experience with Web / Android / iOS and API manual testing
    • Experience with web debugging and API testing tools (Chrome DevTools, Postman)
    • Working knowledge of relational databases preferably MySQL 
    • Strong experience with Python
    • Experience with Automation testing knowledge with REST APIs
    • Experience in test automation for mobile apps (Android and iOS)
    • Experience in Automation testing for web apps (Selenium/ Playwright)
    • Docker and Kubernetes experience would be advantageous 
    • Experience in developing and running a Continuous Integration system
    • Familiarity with Jira / Jenkins would be advantageous

    go to method of application »

    Senior Backend Engineer

    In this role, you’ll be responsible for developing microservices in a distributed deployment environment with an emphasis on containerisation with Docker and K8S. You won’t just be writing simple CRUD applications, but instead will be working on the core logic of complex systems that are accessed millions of times a day. We wrote our system from scratch about 3 years ago, so you’ll be working with the latest technology and won’t have to worry about decades old legacy code.A willingness to work in Springboot is fine - as long as you are willing to learn and have demonstrable experience in an object-oriented programming language.

    Our Stack (we don't expect you to have all of these)

    • Language: Java 17Frameworks: Spring Boot (Tomcat, Netty), Spring Data, Spring Cloud
    • Architecture: Microservices, REST API, Message Queues
    • Database: MySQL, MyBatis, ShardingSphere, MongoDB
    • Caching: Redis (AWS ElastiCache), ElasticSearch
    • Message Queue: RocketMQCloud: Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
    • Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, AWS CloudWatch 

    What you'll be doing

    • Develop highly-scalable mobile internet backends for millions of users
    • Work with Product Owners and other development team members to determine new features and user stories needed in new / revised applications or large/complex development projects
    • Participate in code reviews with peers and managers to ensure that each increment adheres to original vision as described in the user story and all standard resource libraries and architecture patterns as appropriateRespond to support calls for applications in production for quick diagnosis and repair to keep things running smoothly for users
    • Participate in all team ceremonies including planning, grooming, product demonstration and team retrospectivesMentoring less experienced team members
    • Potential On-Call responsibilities depending on team and tenure 

    What you'll bring 

    • Minimum of 6+ Years within a relevant rolePreferred experience in Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Data and iBATIS
    • Strong experience with highly-scalable web backends
    • Experience designing highly transactional systems
    • Advanced proficiency in Object Oriented Design (OOD) and analysis
    • Advanced proficiency in application of analysis / design engineering functionsAdvanced proficiency in application of non-functional software qualities such as resiliency and maintainability
    • Advanced proficiency in modern behavior-driven testing techniquesDeep understanding of Microservices
    • Proficient in SQLExpert knowledge of application development with technologies like RabbitMQ, MySQL, Redis etc
    • Strong experience with container and cloud solutions such as Docker, Kubernetes and AWS Cloud
    • An ability to work independently
    • Excellent communication skills in English

    What’s in it for you

    • Sporty is a remote first company in pursuit of sustainability
    • A competitive salary + individual performance based bonuses every quarter
    • 28 days paid annual leave
    • Our 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

    Method of Application

    Use the link(s) below to apply on company website.

     

    Build your CV for free. Download in different templates.

  • Send your application

    View All Vacancies at SportyBet Nigeria Back To Home
View Hot Nigerian Jobs Today »

Career Advice

View All Career Advice
 

Subscribe to Job Alert

 

Join our happy subscribers

 
 
 
Send your application through

GmailGmail YahoomailYahoomail