Software Engineering Team Lead

M-KOPA Holdings Limited

Job Overview

Location

London

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead a team of backend engineers in delivering M-KOPA's new loan origination architecture, compliance systems, and pricing platform to power financial inclusion across Africa.
• Own the full software lifecycle from design ideation through production and decommissioning, driving technical direction and architectural decisions for event-driven microservices.
• Partner with Product Management on roadmap planning and prioritisation, practicing servant leadership to grow engineers while shipping high-quality, impactful software.
• Work within a true DevOps culture emphasizing infrastructure as code, observability, automated testing, and continuous delivery across Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Contribute to a mission-driven engineering team that enables affordable smartphones, digital loans, and financial services for Africa's Every Day Earners, supporting over 2 million daily payments across five markets.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong hands-on background in C#/.NET backend development
• Proven experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP cloud platforms
• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and microservice development (Azure Service Bus, 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

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote role in UK and parts of Europe within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones
• Professional development programmes and coaching partnerships
• Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements
• Well-being support and genuine career growth opportunities
• Work with diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa

Skills & Technologies

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

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Remote

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About M-KOPA Holdings Limited

M-KOPA Holdings Limited provides asset-financing and digital financial services across Africa, enabling underbanked customers to acquire smartphones, solar home systems, and productive-use assets through flexible pay-as-you-go installments. The company combines IoT-enabled hardware, mobile payments, and proprietary credit algorithms to offer affordable, unsecured loans while building credit histories for millions. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, M-KOPA operates in Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, and South Africa, serving over 3 million customers and disbursing more than $1 billion in cumulative credit.

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