Backend Engineering Team Lead (.NET)

M-KOPA; Durban; Remote; USD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

M-KOPA is seeking a Backend-focused Engineering Team Lead to drive digital and financial inclusion across Africa. The role emphasizes technical leadership and collaboration, focusing on building sophisticated event-driven microservices. Join a mission-driven team to create real-world impact through innovative technology solutions.

Benefits

Diverse development programs

Family-friendly policies

Flexible work environment

Qualifications

• Experience leading a team of .NET backend engineers.
• Strong grasp of C#.NET and event-driven architecture.
• Ability to foster a high-performing engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team building event-driven microservices.
• Oversee the software stack throughout the lifecycle.
• Champion continuous delivery and observability.

Skills

C#.NET

Event Driven Systems

Microservices

Automated Testing

Job description

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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
  
  

Our roles are fully remote, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3). Our engineers work remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa.

What You'll Bring

We expect you to mentor and lead a team of .NET backend engineers while fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment. You'll oversee the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire software lifecycle - from inception through production to decommissioning under a DevOps culture. You'll champion continuous delivery, testing, and observability as first-order concerns in development.

Our Mission

We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities.

Our Impact

Our technology has created measurable change:

• Connected : 1.7 million first-time mobile internet users connected
• Prosperous : 62% of customers use M-KOPA smartphones for income generation, with 30,000+ livelihoods created for agents
• Green : 2.1 million tonnes of CO2 avoided through clean energy products, with over 100,000 circular economy products provided
  
  

Join us in leading teams building C# .NET solutions that create real-world financial inclusion while advancing your career in engineering leadership!

We are looking for good grasp of / and experience with C#.NET, Event Driven Systems, microservices, testing and deployment.

Why M-KOPA?

At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.

Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com.

Recognized thrice by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 5 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa.

Important Notice

M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.

M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.

M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

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