Technical Lead

About Kuda:

Kuda, which means ‘love’ in Shona, is more than a fintech - it’s a movement to make financial services accessible, affordable, and truly rewarding for every African.

Backed by over $100 million from some of the world’s most respected investors, we’re building a smarter alternative to traditional banking - offering seamless money transfers, business banking, and instant access to credit, all through your device.

At Kuda, we don’t just build products - we build people. We share the love in how we collaborate, carry everyone along as we grow, break boundaries to challenge what’s possible, and show up every day committed to doing better.

If you’re driven by purpose, excited by impact, and ready to help redefine the future of finance in Africa, you’ll feel right at home here.

Role overview
We are searching for an innovative technical lead to join our company. As the technical lead, you will oversee a cross-functional engineering squad dedicated to delivering high-performance, user-centric frontend products. You will analyze briefs and develop work schedules. You should be able to work with your team and inspire them to reach their goals.

To be successful as a technical lead, you should quickly identify problems. You will bridge the gap between complex backend architecture and seamless user experiences, ensuring technical scalability never compromises customer satisfaction. Outstanding technical leads are accountable, trustworthy, and able to build lasting relationships with their team.

Responsibilities

● Partnering closely with Product Managers and UX/UI Designers to translate user journeys and wireframes into highly responsive, accessible, and performant architectures.

● Delegating and assigning work/tasks to team members in order to achieve daily, weekly, and monthly goals.

● Liaising with other technical leads to set standards and engineering policy/procedure documents.

● Advocating for frontend engineering best practices, including component reusability, modular state management, and optimized asset delivery.

● Leading and guiding the team through technical issues and challenges across both the frontend and backend stack.

● Establishing performance budgets and monitoring client-side analytics (such as Core Web Vitals and error-tracking tools) to continuously improve the end-user experience.

● Identifying risks and forming contingency plans as soon as possible.

● Analyzing existing operations and scheduling training sessions and meetings to discuss improvements.

● Keeping himself/herself and the team up-to-date with industry trends, frontend advancements, and backend developments.

● Collaborating with security, system control offi cers, and auditors to identify and remediate possible gaps as a result of design, build, or choice of technology.

● Building and maintaining a high-performing engineering team.

● Being transparent with the team about challenges, failures, and successes.

● Writing progress reports and delivering presentations to the relevant stakeholders.

Qualifications:

● 6+ years of industry experience

● Bachelors or higher in Computer Science or a related fi eld or equivalent experience

● Professional certifi cations are a plus

Experience & Technical Skills:

● The candidate should be well versed in systems designs and build. Applying software architectural patterns and/or design patterns to engineering problems.

● The candidate should have practical knowledge of programming and be an experienced user of at least one modern language/ecosystem. A strong emphasis on frontend/mobile ecosystems (e.g., React JS, TypeScript, React Native, Swift iOS, Kotlin) alongside robust backend familiarity (C#, Java, Python, etc.) is highly preferred.

● The candidate should be an expert at applying software development/engineering principles such as SOLID, DRY, KISS, and Separation of Concerns, as well as modern frontend architecture paradigms (e.g., Component-Driven Development, State Management patterns, Micro-Frontends, and Monorepos).

● Have experience with at least one of GCP, AWS & Microsoft Azure (preferably Azure & AWS).

● Have experience with modern development practices such as CI/CD, continuous testing, observability, post-mortem, and chaos engineering.

● Have experience with event-driven and distributed systems and the niche SaaS in the domain such as ElasticSearch, Redis, Kafka, etc.

● Deep understanding of modern web/mobile performance optimization, including lazy loading, server-side rendering (SSR), client-side caching strategies, and CDN utilization.

● A customer-centric mindset with a track record of using data (A/B testing, user session recordings, error tracking tools like Sentry/LogRocket) to drive technical iterations.

● Familiarity or experience collaborating with platform teams on infrastructure technologies such as Ansible, Terraform/Pulumi, Datadog, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, etc.

At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:

A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team

Pension

Career development & growth

Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays

Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)

Group life insurance

Medical insurance

Well-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)

✅Perkbox

‍♀️Goalr - employee wellness app

Award winning L&D training

We are advocates of work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule

Kuda are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Kuda is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent.

We don’t regard colour, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.