Senior Backend Engineer (Remote) at M-KOPA Nigeria

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.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer

Location: Lagos (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-time

Description

• Are you looking for an opportunity to work in a company where progress, and humility are valued as highly as technical excellence? At M-KOPA we use the latest technologies and architectures to build fantastic customer experiences with a socially and environmentally conscious mission that echoes throughout the organisation.
• We are looking for a Backend Engineers from Mid level experience up to Senior Engineer and beyond to join one of the groups here. There are 4 product groups, Repayment, Retention, Application Sales and Portfolio Management.
• Repayment for example, is responsible for providing our customers the best possible experience of the financial services M-KOPA offers. This includes providing them with slick and easy to understand payment options, keeping them informed of their progress throughout the course of their loan repayment as well as ensuring that the safeguards we use to incentivise repayment such as controls on device usage are enforced.
• Retention look after our repeat business, Sales is where the onboarding comes to play and Portfolio management 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. One team in particular uses infrastructure as code demonstrating the unique nature of some of our work.
• We foster autonomy inside the teams, while keeping some standards across the company. We use predominantly C# written against the latest .NET stack, and favour 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.

Method of Application
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