Software Engineering Team Lead
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M-KOPA is hiring a Software Engineering Team Lead to join its Asset Sales engineering team in Ghana. The role involves leading backend engineers through greenfield and legacy projects using C#/.NET, Azure, microservices, and event-driven architecture. The position offers the opportunity to shape financial inclusion technology serving millions of customers across Africa.
- Lead backend engineers in a DevOps culture with full ownership from design to decommissioning
- Work with C#/.NET, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, and event-driven microservices
- Join a TIME 100-recognized FinTech company serving 10 million customers
- Process over 2 million payments daily across five markets
- Focus on servant leadership and growing engineering talent
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Job Type
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Job Description
J
oin our growing FinTech Engineering team! We're recruiting another Software Engineering Team Lead to join our Asset Sales team.
The Impact
Your architecture will directly shape how millions of people access credit for the first time. We've already served 10 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
- 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.
- What You Need
- We're looking for an experienced, low-ego engineering leader who brings both technical depth and a genuine passion for growing people.
- Required
- Strong hands-on background in C#/.NET backend development
- Proven
- with Azure, AWS, or GCP - we work in Azure but welcome
- across major cloud providers
- Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and microservice development - we use Azure Service Bus, and welcome
- with similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- 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
- The Team
- You'll lead a close-knit, focused engineering team with real end-to-end ownership over a significant part of the M-KOPA platform. You'll have a dedicated Product Manager as your counterpart and operate with genuine autonomy over technical direction.
- Location &
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
Our Mission 🌍
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 Impact 💚
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!
Why M-KOPA?
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.
Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at
m-kopa.com
.
Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026), named on CNBC's World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025 & 2026 and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 10 million customers, unlocking $2 billion in cumulative credit for the everyday earners across Africa, in addition to over 10,000 e-bikes financed in Kenya.
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.
Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews will take place at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date.
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.
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About the Employer
M-KOPA
Fintech / Asset Financing & Digital Financial Services
M-KOPA is a pan-African fintech company that provides asset financing and digital financial services to underserved, everyday earners across Africa. It lets customers pay for smartphones, and other essential products through small deposits and affordable daily or weekly micro-instalments, while also offering embedded digital loans, health cover, and data bundles. In Ghana, M-KOPA operates as M-KOPA Ghana Ltd, based in Accra, as part of the group's operations spanning Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana.
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