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: Backend Engineer
Location: Lagos (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-time
This position will be reporting to: The Engineering Manager
About this role
- We pay important emphasis in Infrastructure as Code, Observability, and Automated Testing in all environments, including Production, which will be part in your daily job.
- We foster autonomy inside the teams, while keeping some standards across the company. We use the latest .NET stack, and are based in Azure using Kubernetes.
- We have a mix of legacy services and greenfield microservices, so if you love the challenge of improving a legacy codebase while working on new projects, and if you love working remotely, this might be a job for you.
We’re excited about you because you
- You have at least 2 years’ experience working as a professional software engineer
- You have commercial experience with C#.NET, and shipping high-quality backend code into production.
- You have knowledge of Azure and AKS or other containerized application deployment tools.
- You can write high quality code by applying software development principles such as KISS, YAGNI.
- 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 desire to learn from teammates.
You’re excited about this opportunity because:
- You like to put your people and teammates first and bring your most empathetic self to work
- You take a product-focused approach to development and drive changes with data.
- You make technical decisions based on stakeholders and user needs.
- You understand clean architecture and know how to keep domain teams decoupled.
- You write clear and reliable automated tests using testing best practices such as TDD.
- You apply data security practices, such as protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
What's in 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
- 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.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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