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: Backend Engineering Team Lead
Location: Lagos
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.
What You Need
- We're looking for an experienced low-ego backend engineering leader who brings both technical depth and a genuine passion for growing people.
Required Experience:
- Strong 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.
Technical Environment:
- Languages & frameworks: C#/.NET
- Cloud: Azure
- Architecture: Event-driven systems and microservice development (Service Bus)
- Engineering culture: DevOps, infrastructure as code, observability and monitoring, 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.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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