Software Engineering Team Lead

M-Kopa

3d•Remote

About The Position

Join our growing FinTech Engineering team! We're 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-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 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. This role offers mission-driven engineering where your daily work enables affordable smartphones, digital loans, and financial services for Africa's Every Day Earners. You'll join a FinTech company recognized 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. Additionally, M-KOPA is carbon-negative, having avoided 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions across its product portfolio.

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 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 Azure Service Bus, Kafka or RabbitMQ
Experience with Kubernetes, Docker
Experience with Prometheus, Grafana

Responsibilities

Lead a team of backend engineers through both greenfield and legacy projects.
Own 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.
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.