M-KOPA
FinTech
BackendEngineeringTeamLead
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“Backend Engineering Team Lead at M-KOPA. Skills: Backend Engineering Team Lead, C#/.NET backend development, Azure cloud services, event-driven architecture, microservice development, leading engineers, architectural guidance. lead a team of backend engineers. owning the full software lifecycle from design ideation through to production and eventual decommissioning”
What You'll Achieve.
spearhead the delivery of our new loan origination architecture, compliance systems, and pricing platform; power M-KOPA's next phase of expansion across Africa; shape how millions of people access credit for the first time; shipping high-quality, impactful software
Industry & Context.
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What They're Looking For.
Must Have
hands-on background in C#/. NET backend development, Proven experience with Azure cloud services, Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and microservice development (Service Bus, RabbitMQ, Kafka etc), 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
What You'll Do.
lead a team of backend engineers
owning the full software lifecycle from design ideation through to production and eventual decommissioning
set architectural direction
partner closely with your Product Manager counterpart on roadmap planning and prioritisation
serve as a servant leader who grows the people around you while shipping high-quality
architecting systems that process over 2 million payments daily across five markets
building for the next 10 million customers
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
partner closely with your Product Manager counterpart on roadmap planning and prioritisation; work with diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa; Engineering and Product work as genuine counterparts - planning together, prioritising together, delivering together; lead a team of three engineers; dedicated Product Manager as your counterpart
Process & Methodology
roadmap planning, prioritisation, drive delivery
Full Job Description
[https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1d985516-2a99-43c0-b591-957f5adaceb9/5ac97b31-49cd-4012-8bb0-5caf15e33c69/B25.png] Join our growing FinTech Engineering team! We're recruiting a Backend Engineering Team Lead to spearhead the delivery of our new loan origination architecture, compliance systems, and pricing platform - infrastructure that will power M-KOPA's next phase of expansion across Africa. [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1d985516-2a99-43c0-b591-957f5adaceb9/0524125f-275f-4f87-83d9-7d2f25b72c9e/B13.png] THE IMPACT Your architecture will directly shape how millions of people access credit for the first time. We've already served over 7 million customers and unlocked more than $2 billion in credit since we began. Every system you design, every engineer you develop, and every decision you make contributes to a platform that's quite literally transforming financial inclusion across an entire continent 🌍 [https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1d985516-2a99-43c0-b591-957f5adaceb9/0524125f-275f-4f87-83d9-7d2f25b72c9e/B13.png] THE OPPORTUNITY 🎯 Mission-driven engineering: Your daily work enables affordable smartphones, digital loans, and financial services for Africa's Every Day Earners - people for whom traditional finance simply doesn't work. 🏆 Global recognition: Join a FinTech company named by TIME 100 as one of the world's most influential and by the Financial Times as Africa's fastest-growing company for five consecutive years (2022–2026). 🚀 Scale that matters: You'll be architecting systems that process over 2 million payments daily across five markets - and building for the next 10 million customers. 🌱 Environmental impact: We're carbon-negative, having avoided 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions across our product portfolio. WHAT YOU'LL DO 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 a
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