Software Engineering Team Lead

Software Engineering Team Lead

M-KOPA

Join our growing FinTech Engineering team! We're recruiting a Software 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. THE IMPACT 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 🌍 THE OPPORTUNITY 🎯 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. 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: 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 * Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker * Observability: Prometheus, Grafana * 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. What You Need We're looking for an experienced, low-ego 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, 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 The Team You'll lead a close-knit, focused engineering team with real end-to-end ownership over a significant part of the M-KOPA platform - including loan origination, compliance systems, and a new pricing engine. You'll have a dedicated Product Manager as your counterpart and operate with genuine autonomy over technical direction. LOCATION & BENEFITS * 🌍 Fully remote role in UK and parts of Europe within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones * 💼 Work with diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa * 📈 Professional development programmes and coaching partnerships * 👨‍👩‍👧 Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements * 💚 Well-being support and genuine career growth opportunities OUR MISSION 🌍 We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities. OUR IMPACT 💚 Our technology has created measurable change: * Connected 📱: 2.5 million first-time smartphone users connected to the mobile internet * Prosperous 💰: 70% of customers use M-KOPA products for income generation, with 35,000 livelihoods created for agents * Green 🌱: 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided through clean energy and circular economy products, with over 127,700 circular economy products provided Ready to build the systems that create real-world financial inclusion while leading a talented team of engineers? Apply Now! WHY M-KOPA? At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility. Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com. Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 7 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa. Important Notice M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.  M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process. Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews will take place at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date. If your application is successful M-KOPA undertakes pre-employment background checks as part of its recruitment process, these include; criminal records, identification verification, academic qualifications, employment dates and employer references.

Software Engineering Team Lead

M-KOPA

Join our growing FinTech Engineering team! We're recruiting a Software 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. THE IMPACT 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 🌍 THE OPPORTUNITY   🎯 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.   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: 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 * Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker * Observability: Prometheus, Grafana * 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.   What You Need We're looking for an experienced, low-ego 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, 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   The Team You'll lead a close-knit, focused engineering team with real end-to-end ownership over a significant part of the M-KOPA platform - including loan origination, compliance systems, and a new pricing engine. You'll have a dedicated Product Manager as your counterpart and operate with genuine autonomy over technical direction. LOCATION & BENEFITS * 🌍 Fully remote role within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones * 💼 Work with diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa * 📈 Professional development programmes and coaching partnerships * 👨‍👩‍👧 Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements * 💚 Well-being support and genuine career growth opportunities OUR MISSION 🌍 We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities. OUR IMPACT 💚 Our technology has created measurable change: * Connected 📱: 2.5 million first-time smartphone users connected to the mobile internet * Prosperous 💰: 70% of customers use M-KOPA products for income generation, with 35,000 livelihoods created for agents * Green 🌱: 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided through clean energy and circular economy products, with over 127,700 circular economy products provided Ready to build the systems that create real-world financial inclusion while leading a talented team of engineers? Apply Now! WHY M-KOPA? At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility. Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com. Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 7 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa. Important Notice M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply. M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.  M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process. Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews will take place at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date. If your application is successful M-KOPA undertakes pre-employment background checks as part of its recruitment process, these include; criminal records, identification verification, academic qualifications, employment dates and employer references.

Software Engineering Team Leader (f/m/d)

Prewave

WHAT WE BUILD Most companies find out about supplier insolvencies, cyber attacks, factory fires or floods that affect their supply chain when it's already a crisis. Prewave exists to change that. We're an AI-native company giving BMW Group, Hilti and Lufthansa real-time visibility into supply chain risks before they become headlines.  We're looking for a Software Engineering Team Lead (f/m/d) who takes ownership of a software engineering team, driving innovation for the solutions within our Data Intelligence Department from day one. Someone who uses AI as a default part of how they work - and knows when to trust their own judgment.  WHAT YOU'LL OWN We are looking for a Software Engineering Team Lead (f/m/d) who will lead a software engineering team, driving innovation for the solutions within our Data Intelligence Department. Your main tasks will be: * Plan & Design – Define and scope new features, identify project requirements, and create clear roadmaps and timelines. * Innovate & Improve – Take initiative to enhance our frameworks, optimize processes, and develop new features. * Inspire & Support – Guide and mentor a team of developers, delegate tasks effectively, and ensure project milestones are met. * Onboard & Train – Help new team members get up to speed with our tools, frameworks, and best practices. * Communicate & Collaborate – Foster open communication within the team, addressing challenges, setbacks, and achievements transparently. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR You are the right fit if you have: * Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or related fields  * 5+ years of experience in a similar role * Experience in working with Scala or other JVM languages, SQL and databases * Demonstrated leadership skills, experience in team management * Excellent communication, motivational and interpersonal skills * Professional fluency in English, both written and spoken * Living in Austria, or being available for occasional office travels Bonus points for: * Experience in how to work in a cloud based environment * Experience with Data Science (Models, NLP, LLMs, …) * Experience with durable workflow engines or workflow orchestration tools WHAT'S OUR WORKING STYLE We're a resilient AI-native team building an AI-native resilience product - and we hire for both. For us, AI-native has always meant humans and AI working together, not one replacing the other. We use tools like Cursor, Gemini and Claude as a normal part of the job, to think faster, work smarter and spend less time on the repetitive stuff. We treat AI fluency as a skill like any other - something you build, experiment with and keep developing.  What goes with that is real ownership. You'll have the space and the trust to figure things out your way - with a strong team around you and plenty of support when you need it. Things move fast here and the brief won't always be complete, but that's what makes the work interesting. The people who do best at Prewave are curious by default, go after things rather than wait to be handed them, and don't lose their footing when the plan changes. We score five values in every interview - creating positive impact through our successful customers, being an ambitious innovator, operating with urgency, doing things that make sense and collaborating with kindness - so you always know what we're looking for and can prepare accordingly.  THE PACKAGE Minimum EUR 55,300 gross annually based on the collective agreement, the actual compensation being tailored to your qualifications, experience, and the role. Flexible hours and hybrid working.  Your birthday off. MyClubs partnership. Mental health support. Regular health check-ups and initiatives. Company-wide training. Fun team events. Device of choice. Work from anywhere - up to 8 weeks a year.