Backend Engineering Team Lead
About The Position
Join our growing FinTech Engineering team! We're recruiting a Backend Engineering Team Lead to spearhead the delivery of our new loan origination architecture, compliance systems, and pricing platform - infrastructure that will power M-KOPA's next phase of expansion across Africa. Your architecture will directly shape how millions of people access credit for the first time. We've 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 that's quite literally transforming financial inclusion across an entire continent. Mission-driven engineering: Your daily work enables affordable smartphones, digital loans, and financial services for Africa's Every Day Earners - people for whom traditional finance simply doesn't work. Global recognition: Join a FInTech company named by TIME 100 as one of the world's most influential and by the Financial Times as Africa's fastest-growing company for five consecutive years (2022–2026). Scale that matters: You'll be architecting systems that process over 2 million payments daily across five markets - and building for the next 10 million customers. Environmental impact: We're carbon-negative, having avoided 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions across our product portfolio.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on background in C#/.NET backend development
- Proven experience with Azure cloud services
- Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and microservice development (Service Bus, RabbitMQ, Kafka etc)
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Set architectural direction.
- Partner closely with your Product Manager counterpart on roadmap planning and prioritisation.
- Serve as a servant leader who grows the people around you while shipping high-quality, impactful software.
Benefits
- Professional development programmes and coaching partnerships
- Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements
- Well-being support and genuine career growth opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
