Software Engineering Team Lead
About M-Kopa
M-KOPA was founded in 2010 on the idea that combining digital micropayments with GSM connectivity could provide affordable access to life-enhancing products. Since then, we’ve built a financial platform that has deployed over $1.5 billion in credit and enabled over 5 million customers across five countries - Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa - to own quality smartphones, access digital services and progress towards their financial goals.
Description
Qualifications
Technical Environment 💻
Languages & frameworks: C#/.NET
Cloud: We work in Azure, and welcome experience across AWS or GCP
Architecture: Event-driven systems and microservice development – we use Azure Service Bus, and welcome experience with similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana
Engineering culture: DevOps, infrastructure as code, automated testing across all environments including production, continuous delivery
Our Engineering Approach 🚀
Full ownership: Teams own their solutions end-to-end – from inception through production support to decommissioning.
Servant leadership: We lead by coaching and enabling, not directing.
Quality by default: Observability, monitoring, and automated testing are built in from day one.
Continuous improvement: We foster a culture of innovation within a supportive, dynamic team environment.
Product partnership: Engineering and Product work as genuine counterparts — planning together, prioritising together, delivering together.
What You Need
We’re looking for an experienced, low-ego engineering leader who brings both technical depth and a genuine passion for growing people.
Required Experience:
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