Vacancies at M-Kopa Solar

To be successful in this role you’ll need to have extensive experience in distributed systems, significant experience in operations, and site reliability experience in cloud-based environments. You’ll also be able to demonstrable high-quality coaching and interpersonal skills.

Our primary tech stack is C# hosted on Azure AKS with some legacy systems based in Service Fabric and some hosted on legacy VM scale sets. With everything in Azure, we’re looking for you to use your extensive knowledge of the Azure ecosystem and know when it’s right to buy in external tools vs leveraging what we already have. We use a range of data storage technologies, depending on the microservice use case, but notably, we have a few very large SQL databases which are being actively worked on.

A Bit About You

• We primarily use .NET for our backend and Kotlin for our Android apps, we also have a few other internal tools that may need a bit of attention; our teams use some flavor 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 a team of passionate product-focused engineers committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel valued. We encourage knowledge sharing and learning as much as possible on the job. We are building a whole new set of microservices based on Event-Driven Architecture patterns. We believe this is a great moment to join our team
• We strongly encourage applications from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.

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Under your guidance, each team you look after will be highly engaged, autonomous, and deliver high-quality product iterations at a good velocity. You will demonstrate empathy for our customers, and your colleagues and provide emotional safety within a low ego environment.

You will be accountable for the team's delivery and report on mutually agreed SLOs. You will have the autonomy to shape and create new teams under your leadership, with the expectation that your mandate will grow steadily year on year in a growing department. You will empower your teams to have autonomy in their day-to-day activities, and agile practices.

Beyond your direct teams, you will also have significant influence in wider departmental decisions and be expected to help with cross-department initiatives that will level up how M-KOPA builds software

To achieve this, you’ll be expected to

• Put people first, bringing your most empathetic self to work.
• Take a product-focused approach to development and drive changes with data.
• Have at least 7 years of commercial software engineering experience in either .NET or Android.
• You understand that DevOps is a culture, and you know that teams delivering code, infrastructure, and operational support can give the best results.
• Know how to empower teams to deliver their best work.
• Collaborate with other Engineering Managers to grow and improve the department and wider business.

You might be a good fit if you.

• 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 on ship code, but own the whole cycle from ideation to production support and Engineering Manager Job Description 3 every step in between.