Backend Engineering Team Lead (.NET Azure)

ABOUT THE COMPANY

At M-KOPA, our aim is to increase access to life-improving technologies at a huge scale. We do this through an innovative credit model – pay-as-you-go asset financing – of which M-KOPA was an early global pioneer. With offices in Nairobi, Kampala, Lagos, and London, M-KOPA serves over 1 million low-income households in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since its commercial launch in 2012, M-KOPA has made its name in off-grid solar power, providing customers with solar panels and solar-powered lights, televisions, radios, fridges, and more – this is often our customers’ first access to electricity.



M-KOPA’s affordable credit model can also be applied to assets beyond off-grid solar power, and in 2019, we began providing credit for smartphones, which enables our customers to move from feature phones to smartphones and improve their connectivity, communication, and information access. Today, smartphone financing is a rapidly growing business line – with enormous opportunities for innovation and increasing our customer impact – and it is the focus of this Strategy Manager role.



M-KOPA currently employs over 1,000 full-time staff across its operating countries. We value progress, innovation, pragmatism, collaboration, and – most of all – our customers. We have been well recognized for our pioneering business model and scale.

JOB SUMMARY

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: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.We are looking for good grasp of / and experience with C#.NET, Event Driven Systems, microservices, testing and Deployment.Join Us: If you are passionate about technology, love the challenge of improving legacy codebases while working on new projects, and value a remote work environment, M-KOPA is the place for you. Shape the future with us and make a real impact as a Software Engineering Team Lead.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Team Leadership: Mentor and lead a team of backend engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment. Lead as a servant leader, coach, and contributor, emphasising high-quality output using infrastructure as code, observability, and monitoring, as well as automated testing in all environments, including production.Full Ownership: Oversee the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire software lifecycle from inception, through production, and right the way to decommissioning under a DevOps culture.DevOps Culture: Champion continuous delivery, testing, and observability as first-order concerns.Tech Stack: Work with C#.NET, event-driven systems, microservices, and deployment technologies.

REQUIRED SKILLS

C, C# or C++, Programming, Database query languages (SQL, others), Version control and configuration management, Relational databases (SQL)

REQUIRED EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree