Software Engineering Team Lead

J**oin our growing FinTech Engineering team! We're recruiting a Software 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.** **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 **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 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...