Senior Backend Engineer I at M-KOPA Solar

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Industry: Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Description: M-KOPA’s mission is to make high quality energy affordable to everyone. OUR GROWTH SO FAR… M-KOPA has connected more than 400,000 homes in Kenya,Tanzania and Uganda to solar power with over 550 new homes being added every day. Each 8W battery powered-system comes with three lights, mobile phone-charging and a solar powered radio. Customers can now opt for a 20W system with digital TV. As of July 2016, M-KOPA has connected over 400,000 homes to affordable solar power. Current customers will make projected savings of US$ 300 Million over the next four years. M-KOPA’s customers will enjoy 50 million hours of kerosene-free lighting per month. Total employment created in East Africa is 2,500. In March 2016, M-KOPA emerged boldest at Financial Times Arcelor Mittal- Boldness in Business Awards in the Developing Markets category. In February 2016, M-KOPA was recognised as the Best Mobile Innovation for Emerging Markets at the Global Mobile Awards. In 2015, M-KOPA was recognised by Fortune Magazine as one of the Top 5
Job Description

What You'll Do

  • At M-KOPA, you'll build sophisticated event-driven microservices with real-world impact. Our engineering teams own their solutions end-to-end – from architecture decisions to production monitoring. Join us in combining cutting-edge .NET development with purpose-driven engineering that makes digital and financial inclusion possible across Africa.

Technical Environment 

  • Modern C# Stack: We use predominantly C# written against the latest .NET stack
  • Microservices & Cloud: We favour microservices hosted on Azure using Kubernetes
  • Event-Driven Architecture: We are constantly iterating towards a completely decoupled, event-driven architecture
  • Mixed Environment: We have both legacy services and greenfield microservices
  • Your On-boarding Journey: When you join, you'll participate in our Internal Engineering Bootcamp - an immersive on-boarding experience with our staff engineering group. You'll deep-dive into our event-driven architecture, explore our engineering practices, and understand how we approach building systems at scale. We invest in getting you up to speed properly from day one.

Our Engineering Approach 

  • We're looking for low-ego, experienced engineers who collaborate exceptionally well and embrace continual learning. As an engineer, you'll work as a collaborator, with more senior members coaching and contributing, placing emphasis on:
  • High quality output
  • Observability and monitoring
  • Automated testing in all environments, including production
  • Infrastructure as code and DevOps practices
  • Knowledge sharing and collaborative problem-solving

What You Need

  • We expect you to be comfortable working as part of a team which owns the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire software lifecycle - from inception through production to decommissioning under a DevOps culture. You'll value the constraints that continuous delivery places upon engineering processes and embrace testing and observability as first-order concerns in development.

Required Experience:

  • Strong grasp of C# .NET development
  • Experience with Event-Driven Systems
  • Microservices architecture experience
  • Testing and deployment expertise
  • DevOps culture mindset
  • Proven ability to collaborate effectively in distributed teams
  • Continuous learning mindset and openness to feedback
Salary: Discuss During Interview
Education: Diploma
Employment Type: Full Time

Key Skills

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