Backend Engineering Team Lead - Cape Town at M-KOPA

What You'll Do

• 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 

• 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.

What You Need

• 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