Staff 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.

At M-KOPA we are looking for a Staff Backend Engineer to join our growing team. We’re applying software engineering to solve very real problems for financially marginalised customers across Africa. Our tech stack handles high volumes of throughput for a unique blend of IoT and Finance. Grow requires us to push the bar higher than ever before so that we can effectively support an ever-growing customer base.

It is a fully remote role #LI-Remote, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3). Our engineers work remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa. You will be reporting to the Director of Engineering. 


About this role:

 
The goals of the Staff Backend Engineer are to ensure that we have a coordinated approach to building technology, support deep technical issues and provide engineering consistency across large swathes of M-KOPA’s architecture and implementation


 
Our primary tech stack is C# hosted on Azure’s Kubernetes Service with some legacy systems based in Service Fabric and some hosted on legacy VM scale sets. We use a large range of Azure services, depending on the microservice use case
 
We use a large range of Azure services, depending on the microservice use case


You’re excited about this opportunity because:

 
You’ll be able to reason about highly complex distributed architectures and coach developers in building the simplest scalable solutions for our problem domains
 
You like to put your people and teammates first and bring your most empathetic self to work
 
Your great interpersonal skills allows you to mentor our teams in broad-reaching architectural choices and to apply engineering within real world constraints
 
You also enjoy being hands-on and build code with the teams you’re working for
 
You’ll be able to reason about highly complex distributed architectures and coach developers in building the simplest scalable solutions for our problem domains


We’re excited about you because you:

 
You have extensive experience in event driven distributed systems design
 
You have significant experience in cloud-based implementations (i.e. Azure)
 
You can demonstrable high-quality coaching and interpersonal skills
 
You are capable of listening to stakeholders, engineers and engineering leadership without feeling the need to jump immediately to solutions


What's in for you:

 
Private health insurance (inpatient outpatient, maternity, eye care, and dental)
 
Life insurance (2 x gross salary)
 
Company pension
 
Remote working
 
25 days leave per annum (excludes additional 8 public bank holidays)
 
Annual Learning and Development Fund - You have an annual $ 1,200 allowance to spend on learning and development
 
Home Office Set Up - this includes a budget of $1000 that you can use at any time after signing the offer letter
 
On site retreats with wider tech team, plus trips to operational markets



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.