Senior Analytics Engineer at M-KOPA

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 Analytics Engineer

Location: Lagos (Remote)
Job Type: Full-time
Department: Technology – Analytics

Description 
You Are Excited About This Role Because You Will:

• Together with your cross-functional partners you will define key metrics for the product area: how do we measure success?
• You will build easy to understand and consistently modelled datasets to serve metrics, dashboards and exploratory analysis
• You will develop semantic models in Looker, build dashboards and coach users on how to use self-serve capabilities of our platform
• Working together with software engineers you will ensure that the data necessary for analysis is captured well in our systems
• You will build data transformation pipelines, primarily by using SQL and Python in dbt + Airflow infrastructure
• Throughout this process you will apply best practices to build reliable, well tested, efficient, documented data assets

Requirements
We are excited about you because you have experience in

• You'll have experience working in the following area dimensional data modelling for analytics / data warehouses / big data infrastructures
• High proficiency in SQL (any dialect)
• Experience programming in Python, Java or another language
• 5+ years experience working with SQL
• 3+ years working with data warehouses technologies
• 3+ years experience working with BI tools such as Looker or Tableau
• 2+ years experience working with a transformation tool such as dbt
• Experience working with orchestration systems such as airflow
• Technical degree is plus, but not a must

Benefits
What's in it for you:

• Private health insurance (inpatient outpatient, maternity, eye care, dental and gym facilities)
• Group Life Cover and Personal Accident Cover
• Company pension (A mandatory basic national social security scheme)
• Remote working (dependent on the nature of the role)
• Airtime allowance (dependent on the nature of the role)
• MIFI monthly payment for remote workers
• 20 days per annum (excluding public holidays). Annual leave is accrued at the standard rate of 1.67 days per month
• Annual Learning and Development Fund - You have an annual $ 1,200 allowance to spend on learning and development (that is, between 1 January and 31 December). For your first year at M-KOPA, this allowance is pro-rated depending on the month that you start
• Home Office Set Up - Having the best IT equipment tools in the world doesn't make sense if you do not have a proper setup to work with. For this reason, M-KOPA will pre-approve the following items for a total budget of $1000 that you can use at any time after signing the offer letter with M-KOPA
• On site retreats with wider tech team, plus trips to operational markets

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.