Backend Engineering Team Lead

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 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.