Lead Engineer - AI Agents at M-kopa

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 are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Lead Engineer - AI Agent

Location: Lagos

What You'll Do

• At M-KOPA, you'll lead the AI Ops Agents team from day one - owning delivery, growing the function, and proving the value.
• You'll work daily with Claude, Claude Code, MCP, and LangChain to build production-grade agents and automations that internal teams actually use.
• Your team builds automations and agents for internal use and serves as internal consultants, helping Software Engineering teams integrate AI into customer-facing products.

Your key responsibilities

• Lead three AI Ops Engineers — own their delivery, development, and day-to-day work
• Prioritise efficiently — manage competing requests from multiple teams by applying a clear prioritisation framework you'll help develop and improve
• Design and ship multi-agent systems and production-grade automations that measurably improve how internal teams and customer-facing staff work
• Build RAG pipelines for internal knowledge retrieval that ground agents in real organisational context
• Keep the AI tooling stack healthy as usage scales across 2,500+ employees
• Stay current on emerging AI tools and technologies - know what's hype and what's actually useful
• Help refine AI training for the wider organisation, including Software Engineering teams

Technical Environment:

• AI & Agentic Frameworks: Claude, Claude Code, Anthropic tooling, LangChain, LangGraph, MCP, multi-agent orchestration, Google ADK (or similar agentic tooling)
• Automation & Prototyping: Scripting, workflow tools, AI-assisted development, rapid prototyping (Vercel/Railway)
• Enterprise Tooling: Identity automation (Entra), internal platforms, Notion, HiBob integrations
• Existing Foundation: Twelve months of Claude, Claude Code, Notion, HiBob, and Entra automations already running in production — you're building on proven foundations, not starting from zero.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
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