M-KOPA’s mission is to make high quality energy affordable to everyone. OUR GROWTH SO FAR… M-KOPA has connected more than 400,000 homes in Kenya,Tanzania and Uganda to solar power with over 550 new homes being added every day.

The role

We are looking for very Senior Backend Engineers as we continue to expand our Acquisition Sales Product Group. Working on applications related to our Sales and onboarding, this is where we build our Know-your-customer (KYC) checks, and manage our 10’000 plus Sales Agents that use our internal CRMs.

Wider teams include, Repayment for they are responsible for providing our customers the best possible experience of the financial services we offer.

Retention, who look after our repeat business and Portfolio management that looks at the tools and software we use to measure our business

Collaboration

• As an engineer in the group you will work as a collaborator, more senior members will coach and contribute placing an emphasis on high quality output observability and monitoring as well as automated testing in all environments, including production. Our teams use infrastructure as code demonstrating the unique nature of some of our work. Our Engineers are empowered to choose how to implement software (within high-level architectural constraints) to meet the needs of our customers.
• We have a data-driven approach to the incremental improvements of our products and a focus towards excellence.
• We foster autonomy inside the teams, while keeping some standards across the company. We use predominantly C# written against the latest .NET stack, and favor microservices hosted on Azure using Kubernetes for all new implementations. We are constantly iterating towards a completely decoupled, event driven architecture across our entire software portfolio.

Remote

• Our roles are fully remote, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3). Our engineers work remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa.
• We have a mix of legacy services and greenfield microservices, so if you love the challenge of improving a legacy codebase while working on new projects, and if working remotely full time appeals, this might be a job for you.
• Our expectations are that you would 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.
• If you also value the constraints that continuous delivery places upon engineering processes and embrace testing and observability as first order concerns in the development of software, you probably have what it takes to join one of the teams and help shape our future