Software Engineering Team Lead

• Your architecture will directly shape how millions of people access credit for the first time
• We’ve already served 10 million customers and unlocked more than $2 billion in credit since we began
• Every system you design, every engineer you develop, and every decision you make contributes to a platform that’s quite literally transforming financial inclusion across an entire continent 🌍
• At M-KOPA, you’ll lead a team of backend engineers through both greenfield and legacy projects, owning the full software lifecycle from design ideation through to production and eventual decommissioning
• Our engineering teams work under a true DevOps culture — with infrastructure as code, observability, automated testing, and continuous delivery treated as first-order concerns, not afterthoughts
• You’ll set architectural direction, partner closely with your Product Manager counterpart on roadmap planning and prioritisation, and serve as a servant leader who grows the people around you while shipping high-quality, impactful software
• You’ll lead a close-knit, focused engineering team with real end-to-end ownership over a significant part of the M-KOPA platform - including loan origination, compliance systems, and a new pricing engine. You’ll have a dedicated Product Manager as your counterpart and operate with genuine autonomy over technical direction

Benefits

• Private health and life insurance
• Remote and flexi working
• Free meals in office
• Fun and collaborative facilities
• Career development opportunities- We’re looking for an experienced, low-ego engineering leader who brings both technical depth and a genuine passion for growing people
• Experience leading or mentoring engineers in a collaborative team environment
• Proven experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP - we work in Azure but welcome experience across major cloud providers
• Ability to set technical direction and provide architectural guidance
• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and microservice development - we use Azure Service Bus, and welcome experience with similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• Comfortable working with Product to shape roadmaps and drive delivery
• Strong hands-on background in C#/.NET backend development
• If your application is successful M-KOPA undertakes pre-employment background checks as part of its recruitment process, these include; criminal records, identification verification, academic qualifications, employment dates and employer references