Jobs at M-Kopa Solar

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

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

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You’re excited about this opportunity because you will

• 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
• You’ve already embraced DevOps is a culture, and you know that teams delivering code, infrastructure, and operational support can give the best results.
• You know how to empower teams to deliver their best work.
• Working in a team makes you happy and you like collaborating with other teams to grow and improve the department and wider business.

We’re excited about you because you have experience with

• You have experience in building microservices, or high availability event driven platforms
• You’ve gained experience architecting and designing end to end systems.
• Have commercial experience with C#.NET you’ve shipped high-quality backend code into production.
• Ideally have knowledge of Azure and AKS or other containerized application deployment tools
• With a DevOps culture
• Ideally have knowledge of the financial services industry and the African market
• Understand that people's problems are the hardest problems.
• Challenge the status quo but understand pragmatic decisions.
• Enjoy working with cross-functional teams and collaborating with leads and product managers to deliver change that improves our customers’ lives.
• Come to work to learn and share your knowledge, ideas, and thought processes to solve the challenges ahead of you.
• We embrace a DevOps culture, so when joining us you’ll be empowering your teams to not only ship code, but to own the whole cycle from ideation to production support.

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You’re excited about this opportunity because you will

• You like to put your people and teammates first and 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
• You have the opportunity to identify gaps in the product experience, influence the project and the way we work
• You embrace DevOps mindset and understand the 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
• You will follow software best practices when handle sensitive data and Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
• You will own releases, support product teams and troubleshoot issues, driving improvements in our codebase and standards
• Enjoy working in cross functional domain teams, collaborating on issues and deep diving into features to improve our users’ lives
• Demonstrating low ego and team spirit
• Advocating of CI / CD best practices and understand the importance of writing clean code

We’re excited about you because you:

• You have a strong understanding of team's product. You apply critical thinking to presented requirements and deliver constructive feedback
• You have strong commercial experience in Android and Kotlin
• You understand the importance of testing and you are experience writing clear and reliable tests as well as aware of testing best practices (i.e. TDD)
• You are familiar with the Jetpack tool suite and modern Android development practices.
• You are experienced with coroutines and structured concurrency
• You have previously worked for a large-scale product and you are familiar with the following: Jetpack, Trunk based development, Flow, Koin, Clean Architecture, MVI/MVVM, Dynamic Features, Feature Toggles, Remote Config, Docker and Azure DevOps
• It will be highly beneficial if you have device locking, connected asset financing or banking experience

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You’re excited about this opportunity because you will

• You like to put your people and teammates first and bring your most empathetic self to work.
• You like to take a product-focused approach and lead changes with data, lead a team of engineers.
• You embrace DevOps mindset and understand the benefits it brings to the team.
• You know how to empower teams to deliver their best work and support their skill development.
• You understand system design, event-driven microservices and enjoy working in medium/large scale distributed systems (help us scale 2M user platform to 10M).
• Demonstrating low ego and team spirit.
• You're keen on getting into detail of our Backend and Android architecture, understand our systems from what they do to how they benefit our customers.
• Advocate and drive continuous practices to implement rapid feedback cycles in all aspects of software engineering.
• Fosters growth in individuals and in team’s capabilities.

We’re excited about you because you

• Understand that DevOps is a culture. You know how to work with infrastructure as code, observability and automated testing.
• Enjoy working in multi-functional Domain teams, collaborating on issues and deep-diving into features to improve our customers' lives.
• You have strong commercial experience with C#.NET and microservices, as well as shipping high-quality backend code into production.
• You have experience with Azure and AKS or other containerized application deployment tools.