Vacancy title:
Software Engineering Team Lead

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

Jobs at:
M-KOPA SOLAR

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, June 9 2026

Duty Station:
Kenya | Nairobi

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, June 2 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Background information about the job or company

Join our growing FinTech Engineering team! We’re recruiting a Software Engineering Team Lead to spearhead the delivery of our new loan origination architecture, compliance systems, and pricing platform – infrastructure that will power M-KOPA’s next phase of expansion across Africa.

The Impact

Your architecture will directly shape how millions of people access credit for the first time. We’ve already served over 7 million customers and unlocked more than $2 billion in credit since we began. Every system you design, every engineer you develop, and every decision you make contributes to a platform that’s quite literally transforming financial inclusion across an entire continent.

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.

Technical Environment

Languages & frameworks: C#/.NET

Cloud: We work in Azure, and welcome experience across AWS or GCP

Architecture: Event-driven systems and microservice development – we use Azure Service Bus, and welcome experience with similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ

Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana

Engineering culture: DevOps, infrastructure as code, 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.

Qualifications or requirements

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

Experience needed

• Strong hands-on background in C#/.NET backend development
• Proven experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP – we work in Azure but welcome experience across major cloud providers
• Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and microservice development – we use Azure Service Bus, and welcome experience with similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
• 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

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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