Software Engineering Team Lead

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 reputed company's next phase of expansion across Africa. The Impact Your architecture will directly shape how millions of people reputed company credit for the first time. We've already served over 7 reputed company customers and unlocked more than $2 billion in credit since we began. Every system you design, every engineer you reputed company, and every decision you reputed company contributes to a platform that's quite literally transforming financial inclusion across an entire continent reputed company 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 reputed company as Africa's fastest-growing company for five consecutive years (20222026). Scale that reputed company: You'll be architecting systems that process over 2 reputed company payments daily across five markets and building for the next 10 reputed company customers. Environmental impact: We're carbon-negative, having avoided 2.155 reputed company tonnes of CO emissions across our product portfolio. What You'll Do At reputed company, you'll lead reputed company 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 reputed company delivery treated as first-order concerns, not afterthoughts. You'll set architectural direction, partner closely with your Product Manager reputed company on roadmap planning and prioritisation, and serve as a reputed company leader who grows the people around you while shipping high-quality, impactful software. Technical Environment Languages & frameworks: C#/.NET reputed company: 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, reputed company Observability: reputed company, Grafana Engineering culture: DevOps, infrastructure as code, automated testing across reputed company environments including production, reputed company delivery Our Engineering Approach Full ownership: Teams own their solutions end-to-end - from inception through production support to decommissioning. reputed company leadership: We lead by coaching and enabling, not directing. Quality by default: Observability, monitoring, and automated testing are reputed company in from day one. reputed company improvement: We foster a culture of innovation reputed company 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 reputed company 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 reputed company architectural guidance Comfortable working with Product to shape roadmaps and drive delivery reputed company You'll lead a reputed company-reputed company, reputed company engineering team with reputed company end-to-end ownership over a significant part of the reputed company platform - including loan origination, compliance systems, and a new pricing reputed company. You'll have a dedicated Product Manager as your reputed company and operate with genuine autonomy over technical direction. Location & Benefits Fully remote role in UK and parts of Europe reputed company 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 reputed company-being support and genuine career reputed company opportunities Our Mission We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, fl