Join our growing FinTech Engineering team Were 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 MKOPAs next phase of expansion across Africa The Impact Your architecture will directly shape how millions of people access credit for the first time Weve 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 thats quite literally transforming financial inclusion across an entire continent The Opportunity Missiondriven engineering Your daily work enables affordable smartphones digital loans and financial services for Africas Every Day Earners people for whom traditional finance simply doesnt work Global recognition Join a FinTech company named by TIME 100 as one of the worlds most influential and by the Financial Times as Africas fastestgrowing company for five consecutive years hidden mobile6 Scale that matters Youll be architecting systems that process over 2 million payments daily across five markets and building for the next 10 million customers Environmental impact Were carbonnegative having avoided 2 155 million tonnes of CO emissions across our product portfolio What Youll Do At MKOPA youll 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 firstorder concerns not afterthoughts Youll 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 highquality impactful software Technical Environment Languages frameworks C NET Cloud We work in Azure and welcome experience across AWS or GCP Architecture Eventdriven 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 endtoend 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 What You Need Were looking for an experienced lowego engineering leader who brings both technical depth and a genuine passion for growing people Required Experience Strong handson 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 eventdriven 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 The Team Youll lead a closeknit focused engineering team with real endtoend ownership over a significant part of the MKOPA platform including loan origination compliance systems and a current pricing engine Youll have a dedicated Product Manager as your counterpart and operate with genuine autonomy over technical direction Location Benefits Fully remote role within UTC 1 to UTC 3 time zones Work with diverse teams across the UK Europe and Africa Professional development programmes and coaching partnerships Familyfriendly policies and flexible working arrangements Wellbeing support and genuine career growth opportunities Our Mission We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair flexible customercentric financing model We strive to drive greater inclusion of women youth and lowincome communities Our Impact Our technology has created measurable change Connected 2 5 million firsttime smartphone users connected to the mobile internet Prosperous 70 of customers use MKOPA

📌 Software Engineering Team Lead (India)
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📍 India