About the role
Join our growing FinTech Engineering team! We're recruiting another Software Engineering Team Lead to join our Asset Sales team. The Impact Your architecture will directly shape how millions of people access credit for the first time. We've already served 10 million customers and unlocked more than $2 billion in credit since we began.
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What you’ll do
- Your daily work enables affordable smartphones, digital loans, and financial services for Africa's Every Day Earners — people for whom traditional finance simply doesn't work.
- 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.
- 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.
What they’re looking for
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- 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
Conditions
- 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.
How they work
- DevOps, infrastructure as code, automated testing across all environments including production, continuous delivery
- Location & Benefits 🌍 Fully remote role in UK and parts of Europe within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones 💼 Work with diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa 📈 Professional development programmes and coaching partnerships 👨👩👧 Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements 💚 Well-being support and genuine career growth opportunities Our Mission 🌍 We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model.
How to apply
- 🌱 Environmental impact: We're carbon-negative, having avoided 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions across our product portfolio.
- Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
Benefits & working conditions
- 🌍 Fully remote role in UK and parts of Europe within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones
- 💼 Work with diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa
- 📈 Professional development programmes and coaching partnerships
- 👨👩👧 Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements
- 💚 Well-being support and genuine career growth opportunities
About M-KOPA
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M-KOPA Mobility is on a mission to make clean, affordable transportation a reality for everyday people across Africa. Through our asset financing model, we're putting motorcycles and electric vehicles into the hands of riders and entrepreneurs who would otherwise be locked out of ownership, giving them the tools to earn more, move freely, and build better lives. We're not just a financial services company with vehicles attached. We're building the infrastructure, technology, and customer experience that makes sustainable mobility accessible at scale across Kenya and growing. The Mobility team operates with the energy of a startup backed by the resources and data capabilities of one of Africa's most innovative Fintechs. If you want to work on problems that matter, in a team that moves fast, and see the direct impact of your work on people's livelihoods every day; this is where you want to be.
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