Software Engineering Team Lead

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🌐 Kenya, South Africa, +5 more countries – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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M-KOPA

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💳 Fintech

Healthcare • Logistics • Fintech

M-KOPA is a fintech platform founded in 2011 that provides digital financial services to underbanked consumers across Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, and Ghana. The company leverages data and IoT technology to enable digital micropayments, facilitating access to essential products and services such as smartphones, electric motorcycles, solar power systems, digital loans, and health insurance. With over $1 billion in credit extended to 3 million customers, M-KOPA is dedicated to making financing accessible for everyday essentials.

📋 Description

• Lead a team of backend engineers across greenfield and legacy projects • Own the full software lifecycle from design ideation through production and eventual decommissioning • Set architectural direction and provide technical guidance • Partner with the Product Manager on roadmap planning and prioritisation • Coach and develop engineers using a servant-leadership approach • Ship high-quality, impactful software • Maintain end-to-end ownership including production support • Apply infrastructure as code, observability, automated testing, and continuous delivery practices • Collaborate with diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa

🎯 Requirements

• Strong hands-on background in C#/.NET backend development • Proven experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP • Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and microservice development • Experience with Azure Service Bus or similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ • Experience leading or mentoring engineers in a collaborative team environment • Ability to set technical direction and provide architectural guidance • Comfortable working with Product to shape roadmaps and drive delivery • Experience with Kubernetes and Docker • Experience with Prometheus and Grafana • Experience with infrastructure as code, automated testing, observability, and continuous delivery • Ability to work within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role in UK and parts of Europe within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones • Professional development programmes and coaching partnerships • Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements • Well-being support and genuine career growth opportunities • Diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa • On-the-job training • Equal opportunity and affirmative action employer