Senior Backend Engineer
At
M-KOPA, We Finance Progress.
The scale and impact of our work is massive.
M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked
customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From
our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go “PayGo’” solar energy for off-grid
homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing
platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve
progress in their lives.
About
the Role
First and foremost, we are looking for someone who is excited about what we do. You don’t need to be an expert in FinTech but should be keen to learn and apply our company’s values.
You are going to be part of our Backend team of
66 engineers and team leads, who work fully remote from UK, Europe and Africa.
As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be
working in small team of backend engineers, product managers and testers,
focused on improving our end users’ product experience.
You will deliver event-driven systems that cope
with millions of daily transactions and push to production multiple times a
day. You will own the whole SDLP process and will drive development using
testing best practices (i.e., TDD).
We are a team of passionate product-focused
engineers committed building and fostering an environment where our colleagues
feel valued. We encourage knowledge sharing and learning as much as possible.
It is a fully
remote role, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3). You will
report to the Engineering Team Lead.
Duties & Responsibilities
You’re excited about this opportunity because you will
- If
you like to put your people and teammates first, you bring your most
empathetic self to work
- You
like to take a product-focused approach to development and drive changes
using data to guide your decisions
- Be
delivering high quality backend code into production on a regular basis
and have a direct impact in our wider organisation.
- You
embrace DevOps mindset and understand its benefits it brings to the team
- Working
in a team makes you happy and you like collaborating with other teams to
grow and improve the department and wider business
- Your
work will directly impact the experience of millions of people based in
Africa
- Demonstrating
low ego and team spirit
- Taking
ownership of your work, partnering with cross functional peers to ensure
projects are properly scoped and implemented
- Advocating
of CI / CD best practices and understand the importance of writing clean
code
- Be
willing to explore and learn new technologies outside of your comfort zone
Qualifications
We’re excited about you because you have experience with
- You
have at least 3 years’ experience working as a professional software
engineer/architect on medium/large scale distributed system
- You
have commercial experience with C#.NET and microservices, as well as
shipping high-quality backend code into production
- You
have knowledge of Azure and AKS or other containerized application
deployment tools
- You
are comfortable with the DevOps culture, and with the idea of being
involved with the management of the systems that you build through their
entire lifecycle
- You
have a collaborative spirit and a strong desire to learn from teammates,
learning to work as part of a team that is greater than the sum of its
parts
- It
will be highly beneficial if you have knowledge of the financial services
industry and the African market
- A
degree in computer science or a related field will be beneficial, however,
we care much more about your skills than about how you acquired them
Our stack
- We
primarily use .NET for our backend and Kotlin for our Android apps
- Our
teams use some flavour of Scrum where they keep track of their work in
Azure DevOps, which we also use for our CI/CD
- Our
cloud provider is Azure, where our microservices are hosted in Azure
Kubernetes Services
- We
are building a whole new set of microservices based on Event-Driven
Architecture patterns
- We
are a team of passionate product-focused engineers committed to building
and fostering an environment where our employees feel value
Our Process
- Recruiter
Screen
- 1st
Stage Interview
- Technical
Interview – take away home task, afterwards presented to the team
- Final
Interview – Meeting senior members of the team
- Offer
What’s in it for you
- Private
health insurance (inpatient outpatient, maternity, eye care, and dental) –
- Group
Life Cover
- Remote
working (dependent on the nature of the role)
- Airtime
allowance (dependent on the nature of the role)
- WIFI
payment up to 5 Mbps monthly (dependent on the nature of the role)
- 21
days per annum (excluding public holidays). Annual leave is accrued at the
standard rate of 1.75 days per month
- Annual Learning and Development
Fund – You
have an annual $ 1,200 allowance to
spend on learning and development (that is, between 1 January and 31
December). For your first year at M-KOPA, this allowance is pro-rated
depending on the month that you start.
- Home Office Set Up – Having the best IT
equipment tools in the world doesn’t make sense if you do not have a
proper setup to work with. For this reason, M-KOPA will pre-approve the
following items for a total budget of $1000 that you can use at any time
after signing the offer letter with M-KOPA (you may purchase desk and
chair separately or together; before or after your start date)
- On site retreats with wider tech team, plus
trips to operational markets
Qualifications
Diversity@M-KOPA
M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative
action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff.
Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to
apply.
M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a
pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for
‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’ or any other kind of
money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring
process.
