Software Engineering Team Lead

M-Kopa

9d•Remote

About The Position

Join our growing FinTech Engineering team! We're recruiting another Software Engineering Team Lead to join the Asset Sales team. 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. 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. 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). You'll be architecting systems that process over 2 million payments daily across five markets — and building for the next 10 million customers. 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, AWS, or GCP - we work in Azure but welcome experience across major cloud providers
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
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

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kubernetes, Docker
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana
Experience with Kafka or RabbitMQ

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.
Operate with genuine autonomy over technical direction.