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Lead Engineer – AI Agents

M-Kopa
Nairobi
Full-time

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

At M-KOPA, you'll lead the AI Ops Agents team from day one - owning delivery, growing the function, and proving the value. You'll work daily with Claude, Claude Code, MCP, and LangChain to build production-grade agents and automations that internal teams actually use. Your team builds automations and agents for internal use and serves as internal consultants, helping Software Engineering teams integrate AI into customer-facing products.

Qualifications

Your key responsibilities:

Lead three AI Ops Engineers — own their delivery, development, and day-to-day work
Prioritise efficiently — manage competing requests from multiple teams by applying a clear prioritisation framework you’ll help develop and improve
Design and ship multi-agent systems and production-grade automations that measurably improve how internal teams and customer-facing staff work
Build RAG pipelines for internal knowledge retrieval that ground agents in real organisational context
Keep the AI tooling stack healthy as usage scales across 2,500+ employees
Stay current on emerging AI tools and technologies – know what’s hype and what’s actually useful
Help refine AI training for the wider organisation, including Software Engineering teams
Technical Environment

AI & Agentic Frameworks: Claude, Claude Code, Anthropic tooling, LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, multi-agent orchestration, Google ADK (or similar agentic tooling)
Automation & Prototyping: Scripting, workflow tools, AI-assisted development, rapid prototyping (Vercel/Railway)
Enterprise Tooling: Identity automation (Entra), internal platforms, Notion, HiBob integrations
Existing Foundation: Twelve months of Claude, Claude Code, Notion, HiBob, and Entra automations already running in production — you’re building on proven foundations, not starting from zero
Our Approach

Build, don’t just advise — this is a hands-on team that ships working automations and agents
Prove the value, then expand — start with three engineers, demonstrate impact, grow from there
Product-focused mindset — treat internal teams as customers and build tooling that works
Cut through the hype — evaluate emerging AI tools on practical value, not marketing buzz
What You Need

We’re looking for someone with a strong technical background and product-focused mindset. You won’t be building models – we have Data Science teams for that. You’ll be building multi-agent systems, shipping production-grade automations, and leading a team that makes M-KOPA’s internal operations smarter and faster.
Required Experience:

Hands-on experience building production-grade automations and AI agents — scripting, workflow tools, or AI-assisted development
Hands-on experience building multi-agent systems using agentic frameworks — LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, Google ADK or similar
Experience with RAG pipelines — retrieval-augmented generation for internal knowledge and workflow automation
Background in enterprise tooling — rapid prototyping tools (Vercel/Railway), identity automation (Entra), or internal platforms
People leadership experience — you’ve led or mentored engineers and can own a team’s delivery and development

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