Software Engineering Team Lead - UX

Summary

Join M-KOPA's Repayments engineering group as a Software Engineering Team Lead, predominantly full-stack. Lead a team focused on delivering exceptional user experiences for customers and internal users. Work as a servant leader, coach, and contributor, emphasizing high-quality output through infrastructure as code, observability, monitoring, and automated testing. Lead and collaborate with a cross-functional team to design, develop, and maintain M-KOPA's Customer Android application and key internal UI components. Guide the team to deliver scalable software, improve application quality, and raise coding standards. This is a fully remote role within a specific time zone, reporting to the group Head of Engineering. M-KOPA offers diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training, supporting individual journeys with family-friendly policies and flexibility.

Requirements

• Be comfortable working as part of a team which owns the entire software stack, including the supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire software lifecycle from inception, through production and right the way to decommissioning under a DevOps culture
• Have an extensive background working for a large-scale product and having deep knowledge and experience of trunk-based development, Clean Architecture, Dependency Injection, Uni-directional data flow (MVI), Feature Toggles, Docker and Azure DevOps
• Value the constraints that continuous delivery places upon engineering processes and embrace testing and observability as first order concerns in the development of software

Responsibilities

• Lead a team that is focused on delivering exceptional user experiences to both our customers and internal users
• Work as a servant leader, coach and contributor within a team which places emphasis on high quality output using infrastructure as code, observability and monitoring as well as automated testing in all environments, including production
• Lead and work with a cross-functional team to design, develop, and maintain M-KOPA’s Customer android application as well as key internal UI components
• Guide the team to deliver software that scales with both company and customer growth, deep diving user journeys using data and implementing focused updates to address our customer’s needs, improving application quality and raising coding standards

Preferred Qualifications

• Have experience in the .NET stack
• Have experience in UI technologies including, but not limited to, SPA frameworks, traditional web stack (HTML + JS), Kotlin, MAUI etc

Benefits

• Diverse development programs
• Coaching partnerships
• On-the-job training
• Family-friendly policies
• Flexibility
• Remote work