Backend Engineering Team Lead (.NET) at M-KOPA Solar

About the job

• We are looking for a Backend-focused Engineering Team Lead to join our team as we scale up and drive digital and financial inclusion across our markets.
• "At M-KOPA, you'll lead a team building sophisticated event-driven microservices with real-world impact. You'll work as a servant leader, coach, and contributor in a team that emphasizes high-quality output using infrastructure as code, observability, monitoring, and automated testing across all environments, including production. Join us in combining technical leadership with purpose-driven engineering that makes digital and financial inclusion possible across Africa."

About Us

• At M-KOPA, we're revolutionising financial inclusion and connectivity across Africa through innovative technology solutions. Our platform has unlocked $1.5 billion in credit, connected 1.7 million first-time internet users, and impacted over 23 million lives.

Technical Environment 

• Modern C# Stack: We use predominantly C# written against the latest .NET stack
• Microservices & Cloud: We favour microservices hosted on Azure using Kubernetes
• Event-Driven Architecture: We are constantly iterating towards a completely decoupled, event-driven architecture
• Mixed Environment: We have both legacy services and greenfield microservices

Our Engineering Approach
As a team lead, you will work as a servant leader, coach, and contributor, placing an emphasis on:

• High quality output
• Observability and monitoring
• Automated testing in all environments, including production
• Infrastructure as code and DevOps practices

Leadership Philosophy
We're looking for a true servant leader who is:

• Passionate about managing and promoting engineer career paths
• Dedicated to conducting meaningful 1-2-1's that drive personal and professional growth
• A champion for your team, advocating for their needs and successes
• Experienced in conducting code reviews that elevate code quality and engineer development
• Committed to creating a supportive environment where engineers can thrive and innovate