Software Engineering Team Lead at M-KOPA Nigeria

M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go “PayGo’” solar energy for off grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Engineering Team Lead

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time

Job Summary

• We are looking for a Backend-focused Engineering Team Lead to join our Repayments product group; where progress, and humility are valued as highly as technical excellence.
• This is to ensure that the quality and prioritization for candidates that are a good match is unaffected by high volume processing.
• Common reasons for people being rejected are lack of seniority, no experience with C# and event driven Microservices / Azure or no relevant experience.
• Candidates are encouraged to re-apply for an appropriate role, our structure is typically as below and we do have comprehensive salary bandings to accommodate different levels of seniority that is overlaid with depth of experience. (although there are exceptions);
  • Backend Engineer 3 + yrs exp
  • Senior Backend Engineer 6+ yrs exp
  • Team Leader 8 + yrs exp
  • Staff Engineer 10 +
  • Engineering Manager 10+ (depth of experience is always assessed using a technical evaluation 3/5 hrs work).

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.