Backend Engineering Team Lead

At M-KOPA, you will 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 will 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.

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.

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.

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.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• A degree in BA/BSc/HND in a relevant field.
• 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.

How to Apply

Interested and qualified candidates should apply online via the M-KOPA Solar application portal on Ashby. Use the link provided below to submit your application: Apply Online