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What You'll Do

• Partner with our CTO to develop and execute technology strategy that scales across African markets
• Lead OKR setting, strategic planning, and cross-functional collaboration across distributed engineering teams
• Oversee technology operations including resource planning, budgeting, vendor management, and compliance coordination
• Drive project management for strategic initiatives including country launches and platform scaling
• Build frameworks for team development, recruitment strategy, and organisational growth across our technology teams
• Establish data-driven decision-making processes and optimise resource allocation for maximum impact
• Coordinate cross-functional strategy reviews and product strategy execution while driving documentation and knowledge management practices, working closely with the Head of Strategy & Operations in Product Management
• Drive AI adoption and digital transformation initiatives across technology teams, embracing emerging technologies to enhance operational efficiency

What You Need

• Strong background in technology strategy within a FinTech environment with proven strategic/operational/advisory leadership experience
• Proven track record leading strategic initiatives and driving operational improvements including procurement, vendor management, and organisational goal setting
• Experience working with distributed engineering teams, agile development practices, and cross-functional stakeholder management
• Strategic mindset with ability to translate vision into actionable plans, combined with strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Exceptional communication skills and emotional intelligence to build relationships across all organisational levels
• Bias for action with proven ability to deliver results while creating structure in fast-paced, ambiguous environments

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What You'll Do

• At M-KOPA, you'll build sophisticated event-driven microservices with real-world impact. Our engineering teams own their solutions end-to-end – from architecture decisions to production monitoring. Join us in combining cutting-edge .NET development with purpose-driven engineering that makes digital and financial inclusion possible across Africa.

Technical Environment 

• Modern C# Stack: We use predominantly C# written against the latest .NET stack
• Microservices & Cloud: We favour microservices hosted on Azure using Kubernetes
• Event-Driven Architecture: We are constantly iterating towards a completely decoupled, event-driven architecture
• Mixed Environment: We have both legacy services and greenfield microservices

Our Engineering Approach As an engineer, you will work as a collaborator. More senior members will coach and contribute, placing an emphasis on:

• High quality output
• Observability and monitoring
• Automated testing in all environments, including production
• Infrastructure as code and DevOps practices

What You Need

• We expect you to be comfortable working as part of a team which owns the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire software lifecycle - from inception through production to decommissioning under a DevOps culture. You'll value the constraints that continuous delivery places upon engineering processes and embrace testing and observability as first-order concerns in development.

Required Experience:

• Strong grasp of C# .NET development
• Experience with Event-Driven Systems
• Microservices architecture experience
• Testing and deployment expertise
• DevOps culture mindset