Backend Engineering Team Lead, M-KOPA
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Connected asset financing solutions
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Connected asset financing solutions
1001+ employees
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1001+ employees
Company mission
To make financing for everyday essentials accessible to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- We're looking for an experienced low-ego backend engineering leader who brings both technical depth and a genuine passion for growing people
- Strong hands-on background in C#/.NET backend development
- Proven experience with Azure cloud services
- Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and microservice development (Service Bus, RabbitMQ, Kafka etc)
- 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
What the job involves
- Join our growing FinTech Engineering team! We're recruiting a Backend 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
- 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 🌍
- 🎯 Mission-driven engineering: 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
- 🏆 Global recognition: Join a FInTech company named by TIME 100 as one of the world's most influential and by the Financial Times as Africa's fastest-growing company for five consecutive years (2022–2026)
- Scale that matters: You'll be architecting systems that process over 2 million payments daily across five markets - and building for the next 10 million customers
- 🌱 Environmental impact: We're carbon-negative, having avoided 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions across our product portfolio
- 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
- Languages & frameworks: C#/.NET
- Cloud: Azure
- Architecture: Event-driven systems and microservice development (Service Bus)
- Engineering culture: DevOps, infrastructure as code, observability and monitoring, automated testing across all environments including production, continuous delivery
- You'll lead a team of three engineers - two senior engineers with longer tenure and one mid-level engineer who joined more recently. The team is just under a year old, with a dedicated Product Manager as your counterpart. It's a tight-knit, focused group with real ownership over a significant part of the M-KOPA platform
Our take
M-KOPA is an asset financing company in East Africa, that provides solar energy solutions to under-served households. The company offers a pay-as-you-go model, allowing customers to access solar products like panels and batteries without upfront costs.
M-KOPA's impact reaches far beyond its innovative financing model. By allowing households to have access to sustainable energy solutions, the company has helped improve overall living conditions for its customers. The widespread adoption of solar products has significantly reduced dependence on fossil fuels, resulting in lower carbon emissions and a cleaner environment.
M-KOPA's robust funding includes debt financing from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, which aims to develop digital connectivity in Kenya. On top of this, a substantial, sustainability-linked 2025 debt financing round will help grow M-KOPA's smartphone products and ramp up market expansion, whilst promoting an environment and social benefit approach to asset financing. The company, then, is a driving force in ensuring sustainable energy access for millions across Africa and beyond.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Nov 2025
$160m
SERIES F
May 2023
$55m
LATE VC
Total funding: $358.1m
Company benefits
- Private health and life insurance
- Remote and flexi working
- Free meals in office
- Fun and collaborative facilities
- Career development opportunities
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Jesse Moore
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously served as the Director at GSMA and Signal Point Partners.
Chad Larson
(Co-Founder)Current CEO of Kopo Kopo and an Advisor at Blue Haven Initiative and KawiSafi Ventures. Previously worked at the Bank of America for 10 years in multiple roles, including Principal and Head of Structured Municipal Products.
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