Backend Engineering Team Lead at M-KOPA

At M-KOPA, we are revolutionising financial inclusion and connectivity across Africa. We deploy multiple times per day, empowering our engineers to drive the architecture of our cutting-edge microservices. Our tech stack includes the latest .NET framework, C#, and Azure-hosted microservices managed with Kubernetes. We are committed to building a fully decoupled, event-driven architecture.

Why M-KOPA?

• Leadership Opportunity: Lead a team of talented engineers, guiding them through both legacy and greenfield projects.
• Innovative Environment: Continuously improve and innovate within a dynamic and supportive team.
• Remote Flexibility: Fully remote role within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones.
• Impactful Work: Contribute to a mission-driven company that has unlocked $1.5 billion in credit and impacted over 23 million lives through our products.

What You'll Do:

• Team Leadership: Mentor and lead a team of backend engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment. Lead as a servant leader, coach, and contributor, emphasising high-quality output using infrastructure as code, observability, and monitoring, as well as automated testing in all environments, including production.
• Full Ownership: Oversee the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire software lifecycle from inception, through production, and right the way to decommissioning under a DevOps culture.
• DevOps Culture: Champion continuous delivery, testing, and observability as first-order concerns.
• Tech Stack: Work with C#.NET, event-driven systems, microservices, and deployment technologies.