Software Engineering Team Lead

Job Description

Join our growing FinTech Engineering team! Were recruiting a Software Engineering Team Lead to spearhead the delivery of our new loan origination architecture, compliance systems, and pricing platform - infrastructure that will power M-KOPAs next phase of expansion across Africa.The Impact Your architecture will directly shape how millions of people access credit for the first time. Weve already served over 7 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 thats quite literally transforming financial inclusion across an entire continent The Opportunity Mission-driven engineering: Your daily work enables affordable smartphones, digital loans, and financial services for Africas Every Day Earners people for whom traditional finance simply doesnt work. Global recognition: Join a FinTech company named by TIME 100 as one of the worlds most influential and by the Financial Times as Africas fastest-growing company for five consecutive years (hidden_mobile6). Scale that matters: Youll be architecting systems that process over 2 million payments daily across five markets and building for the next 10 million customers. Environmental impact: Were carbon-negative, having avoided 2.155 million tonnes of CO emissions across our product portfolio.What Youll DoAt M-KOPA, youll 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.Youll 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.Technical Environment Languages & frameworks: C#/.NETCloud: We work in Azure, and welcome experience across AWS or GCPArchitecture: Event-driven systems and microservice development - we use Azure Service Bus, and welcome experience with similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQInfrastructure: Kubernetes, DockerObservability: Prometheus, GrafanaEngineering culture: DevOps, infrastructure as code, automated testing across all environments including production, continuous deliveryOur Engineering Approach Full ownership: Teams own their solutions end-to-end - from inception through production support to decommissioning.Servant leadership: We lead by coaching and enabling, not directing.Quality by default: Observability, monitoring, and automated testing are built in from day one.Continuous improvement: We foster a culture of innovation within a supportive, dynamic team environment.Product partnership: Engineering and Product work as genuine counterparts planning together, prioritising together, delivering together.What You NeedWere looking for an experienced, low-ego engineering leader who brings both technical depth and a genuine passion for growing people.Required Experience:Strong hands-on background in C#/.NET backend developmentProven experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP - we work in Azure but welcome experience across major cloud providersSolid understanding of event-driven architecture and microservice development - we use Azure Service Bus, and welcome experience with similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQExperience leading or mentoring engineers in a collaborative team environmentAbility to set technical direction and provide architectural guidanceComfortable working with Product to shape roadmaps and drive deliveryThe TeamYoull 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. Youll have a dedicated Product Manager as your counterpart and operate with genuine autonomy over technical direction.Location & Benefits Fully remote role within UTC -1 to UTC 3 time zonesWork with diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and AfricaProfessional development programmes and coaching partnershipsFamily-friendly policies and flexible working arrangementsWell-being support and genuine career growth opportunitiesOur Mission We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities.Our Impact Our technology has created measurable change:Connected : 2.5 million first-time smartphone users connected to the mobile internetProsperous : 70% of customers use M-KOPA

Keyskills :
NETAzureAWSGCPKafkaRabbitMQeventdriven architecturemicroservice development