M-KOPA - Software Engineering Team Lead

Remote - UTC-1 to UTC+3 - Europe *3w ago

Remote Staff EMEA Cloud Computing Team Lead Product Manager .NET C#Azure AWS GCP

Requirements

• We're looking for an experienced, low-ego engineering leader who brings both technical depth and a genuine passion for growing people. • 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 • You'll 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. You'll have a dedicated Product Manager as your counterpart and operate with genuine autonomy over technical direction. • [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1d985516-2a99-43c0-b591-957f5adaceb9/bd6b1302-c24a-44bf-bbac-659215992cda/image.png]

Responsibilities

• At M-KOPA, you'll lead a team of backend engineers through both greenfield and legacy projects, owning the full software lifecycle from design ideation through to production and eventual decommissioning. Our engineering teams work under a true DevOps culture — with infrastructure as code, observability, automated testing, and continuous delivery treated as first-order concerns, not afterthoughts. • You'll set architectural direction, partner closely with your Product Manager counterpart on roadmap planning and prioritisation, and serve as a servant leader who grows the people around you while shipping high-quality, impactful software. • 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.

Benefits

• 🌍 Fully remote role in UK and parts of Europe within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones • 💼 Work with diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa • 📈 Professional development programmes and coaching partnerships • 👨‍👩‍👧 Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements • 💚 Well-being support and genuine career growth opportunities • We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities. • Our technology has created measurable change: • Connected 📱: 2.5 million first-time smartphone users connected to the mobile internet • Prosperous 💰: 70% of customers use M-KOPA products for income generation, with 35,000 livelihoods created for agents • Green 🌱: 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided through clean energy and circular economy products, with over 127,700 circular economy products provided • Ready to build the systems that create real-world financial inclusion while leading a talented team of engineers? Apply Now! • At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility. • [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1d985516-2a99-43c0-b591-957f5adaceb9/369018b8-cf9c-49c7-95f1-1d414482ba57/B13.png] • Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 7 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa. • [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1d985516-2a99-43c0-b591-957f5adaceb9/481f6724-8375-4f39-b514-fbe00b8fc3b5/B13.png] • Important Notice • M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. • M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships. • M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process. • If your application is successful M-KOPA undertakes pre-employment background checks as part of its recruitment process, these include; criminal records, identification verification, academic qualifications, employment dates and employer references.