Opportunity overview
What you should know
We checked this opportunity from M-KOPA. It is listed as Kenya.
The work location is Nairobi. Employer-stated compensation: Salary not included in the job posting.
Job description
About this role
🏆 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Technical Environment đź’»
- Languages & frameworks: C#/.NET
- Cloud: We work in Azure, and welcome experience across AWS or GCP
- Architecture: Event-driven systems and microservice development - we use Azure Service Bus, and welcome experience with similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ
- Engineering culture: DevOps, infrastructure as code, automated testing across all environments including production, continuous delivery
- Our Engineering Approach 🚀
- Full ownership: Teams own their solutions end-to-end - 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.
Qualifications and requirements
- We're looking for an experienced, low-ego 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, 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
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How this listing was checked
- Source status
- Applicant-tracking source confirmed
- Employer or source
- M-KOPA
- Source checked
- September 7, 2026
- Application destination
- Employer or official applicant-tracking website
- Work setup and location
- Remote · Nairobi
- Who can apply
- Kenya · Confirmed by source
- Pay
- Not stated by employer
- Deadline
- Not stated by employer
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