Website M-KOPA Solar
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, m… read moreobile 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 50 Companies Changing The World and won the Zayed Energy Future Prize. M-KOPA has also won the 2014 Bloomberg Pioneer Award and 2013 FT/IFC Excellence in Sustainable Finance Award.
What You’ll Do
At M-KOPA, you’ll lead a team of backend engineers through both greenfield and legacy projects, owning the full software lifecycle from design ideation through to production and eventual decommissioning. Our engineering teams work under a true DevOps culture – with infrastructure as code, observability, automated testing, and continuous delivery treated as first-order concerns, not afterthoughts.
You’ll set architectural direction, partner closely with your Product Manager counterpart on roadmap planning and prioritisation, and serve as a servant leader who grows the people around you while shipping high-quality, impactful software.
Technical Environment
Languages & frameworks: C#/.NET
Cloud: Azure
Architecture: Event-driven systems and microservice development (Service Bus)
Engineering culture: DevOps, infrastructure as code, observability and monitoring, automated testing across all environments including production, continuous delivery
Our Engineering Approach
Full ownership: Teams own their solutions end-to-end – from inception through production support to decommissioning.
Servant leadership: We lead by coaching and enabling, not directing.
Quality by default: Observability, monitoring, and automated testing are built in from day one.
Continuous improvement: We foster a culture of innovation within a supportive, dynamic team environment.
Product partnership: Engineering and Product work as genuine counterparts – planning together, prioritising together, delivering together.
What You Need
We’re looking for an experienced low-ego backend engineering leader who brings both technical depth and a genuine passion for growing people.
Required Experience:
Strong hands-on background in C#/.NET backend development
Proven experience with Azure cloud services
Solid understanding of event-driven architecture and microservice development (Service Bus, RabbitMQ, Kafka etc)
Experience leading or mentoring engineers in a collaborative team environment
Ability to set technical direction and provide architectural guidance
Comfortable working with Product to shape roadmaps and drive delivery
The Team
You’ll lead a team of three engineers – two senior engineers with longer tenure and one mid-level engineer who joined more recently. The team is just under a year old, with a dedicated Product Manager as your counterpart. It’s a tight-knit, focused group with real ownership over a significant part of the M-KOPA platform.
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