Vacancy title:
Backend Engineering Team Lead

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Manufacturing, Category: Science & Engineering,Computer & IT,Management,Team leader]

Jobs at:
M-KOPA SOLAR

Deadline of this Job:
Monday, May 25 2026

Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi

Summary
Date Posted: Friday, May 15 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

M-KOPA’s mission is to make high quality energy affordable to everyone. OUR GROWTH SO FAR... M-KOPA has connected more than 400,000 homes in Kenya,Tanzania and Uganda to solar power with over 550 new homes being added every day.

Responsibilities or duties

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.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

We're looking for an experienced low-ego backend engineering leader who brings both technical depth and a genuine passion for growing people.

Experience needed

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

Any other provided details (e.g., benefits, work environment, team info, or additional notes)

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.

The Team

You'll lead a team of three engineers - two senior engineers with longer tenure and one mid-level engineer who joined more recently. The team is just under a year old, with a dedicated Product Manager as your counterpart. It's a tight-knit, focused group with real ownership over a significant part of the M-KOPA platform.

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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