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Backend Engineering Team Lead Job M-KOPA Solar

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  • 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.

Responsibilities

Technical Environment

  • 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

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

  • We’re looking for an experienced low-ego backend engineering leader who brings both technical depth and a genuine passion for growing people.

Required Experience:

  • 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

The Team

  • 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

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