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About the Role
Lead a backend engineering team through greenfield and legacy projects, owning the full software lifecycle. Foster a DevOps culture with a focus on infrastructure as code, observability, automated testing, and continuous delivery. Set architectural direction, partner with Product Managers on roadmaps, and grow engineers while shipping high-quality software.
Responsibilities
- Own the full software lifecycle from design ideation through to production and eventual decommissioning.
- Set architectural direction.
- Partner closely with Product Manager counterparts on roadmap planning and prioritisation.
- Serve as a servant leader who grows the people around you while shipping high-quality, impactful software.
- Lead a team of backend engineers through both greenfield and legacy projects.
Requirements
- Strong hands-on background in C#/.NET backend development.
- Proven experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and microservice development.
- 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.
Skills
- C#/.NET
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
- Event-driven systems
- Microservice development
- Azure Service Bus
- Kafka
- RabbitMQ
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- DevOps
- Infrastructure as code
- Automated testing
- Continuous delivery
Location
- Fully remote role in UK and parts of Europe within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones
Work Type
- Fully remote
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced engineering leader
Benefits
- Professional development programmes
- Coaching partnerships
- Family-friendly policies
- Flexible working arrangements
- Well-being support
- Genuine career growth opportunities
About the Company
- FinTech company named by TIME 100 as one of the world's most influential.
- Financial Times' Africa's fastest-growing company for five consecutive years (2022–2026).
- Carbon-negative, having avoided 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions across product portfolio.
- Creates financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model.
- Strives to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities.
- Technology has connected 2.5 million first-time smartphone users to the mobile internet.
- 70% of customers use M-KOPA products for income generation, with 35,000 livelihoods created for agents.
- 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided through clean energy and circular economy products, with over 127,700 circular economy products provided.
- 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.
- Named by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024.
- Served over 10 million customers, unlocking $2 billion in cumulative credit for the everyday earners across Africa.
- Over 10,000 e-bikes financed in Kenya.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- M-KOPA never asks 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.
- 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.