Software Engineering Team Lead at M-KOPA Solar

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