Software Engineering Team Lead
Mukuru|Posted 21 hours ago
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Role description
Join our Remittances and Payments team as a Software Engineering Team Lead, where you'll shape the technology powering safe, accessible financial services that make a real difference. You'll lead a high-performing engineering team while delivering impactful products—from cross-border payments to financial inclusion solutions used by customers every day. This role combines technical leadership with people development, giving you the opportunity to influence both product delivery and team growth. As our Team Lead, you'll mentor and grow a talented team of software engineers, fostering a collaborative culture of learning and continuous improvement. You'll own the delivery of key products and features, guiding your team in building robust, modern systems using microservices architecture and best engineering practices. Working closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, DevOps, and other cross-functional teams, you'll drive meaningful solutions while refining development processes and introducing efficiencies that elevate our engineering standards. We're looking for a strong technical leader with proven experience as a Senior Software Engineer or Engineering Team Lead, bringing solid expertise in PHP, Symfony, and modern software architecture. You should have a strong understanding of microservices, domain-driven design, and scalable system design, along with experience in Agile environments. Your excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, combined with a strong sense of ownership and accountability, will help you thrive in this role. If you're passionate about building both exceptional products and exceptional people, we'd love to hear from you.
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About Mukuru
What we do
Mukuru helps you move money around Africa. Whether you are sending cash for instant collection or topping up a bank account or mobile wallet it has never been easier. We use the latest mobile and web-based technologies to give you the best experience possible. But that’s just half the story. To really understand us, you need to know the “why” behind all we do.
We know that every one of our customers has a story. Just like we do. So whether they are sending money for school fees, hospital bills, rent or groceries, we are passionate about making that story end well.
It is this, the opportunity to enrich the lives of Africa's people by helping family, friends and loved ones stay connected, that motivates us to improve, to do more and to reach further. To us a remittance is more than money. It represents the love, care and hard work of the sender and can be a lifeline, an opportunity or even a celebration to the recipient.
Our Values
- World Class Service - It sets us apart from the competition.
- Innovation and Creativity - If we don't have it, we'll build it.
- Growth Through Learning - It's about progress.
- A Sense of Family - We are all in it together.
- Integrity - We're just down-to-earth, honest people.
- Passion in Work and Play - It's about giving everything.
Our Hiring Process
We a close-knit bunch so we place a lot of emphasis in the hiring process as we grow our family.
- You will firstly have an interview with the Team Lead, Development Manager or HR - we are down-to-earth, honest, all-in-it-together kind of people so have the first meeting is about getting to know each other seeing if we are a good fit for you and you for us
- We will give a short technical assignment to do in your own time - we are not the push a deadline kind of company but it is about giving it your everything in what you do. We tend to be able to move quite quickly in our process so completing the technical assessment as quickly as you can help to make the process even less of time hassle and we actually give you feedback on how you did - we take our world-class service seriously even our promises to each other as a team
- Our system works with people's livelihoods and trust, background checks (credit and criminal records) are part of our process
- Learning and growth is a big part of the Mukuru and an online psychometric test helps assist in identifying how we can work together to grow you career in the team
- We have a discussion about our offer to you.
For us, it's just as much about you choosing to make us a part of your story as much as it is about us choosing you to be a part of ours
Perks at Mukuru
Tech Stack
application and data
utilities
dev ops
business tool
