Senior Backend Engineer

nairobi cityKE

full-time

bachelor

5 months ago11/11/202312/11/2023

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As a Senior Backend Engineer, you will be working in small team of backend engineers, product managers and testers, focused on improving our end users’ product experience. You will deliver event-driven systems that cope with millions of daily transactions and push to production multiple times a day. You will own the whole SDLP process and will drive development using testing best practices (i.e., TDD). We are a team of passionate product-focused engineers committed building and fostering an environment where our colleagues feel valued. We encourage knowledge sharing and learning as much as possible.

It is a fully remote role, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3). You will report to the Engineering Team Lead. 

You’re excited about this opportunity because you will

  • If you like to put your people and teammates first, you bring your most empathetic self to work
  • You like to take a product-focused approach to development and drive changes using data to guide your decisions
  • Be delivering high quality backend code into production on a regular basis and have a direct impact in our wider organisation.
  • You embrace DevOps mindset and understand its benefits it brings to the team
  • Working in a team makes you happy and you like collaborating with other teams to grow and improve the department and wider business
  • Your work will directly impact the experience of millions of people based in Africa
  • Demonstrating low ego and team spirit
  • Taking ownership of your work, partnering with cross functional peers to ensure projects are properly scoped and implemented
  • Advocating of CI / CD best practices and understand the importance of writing clean code
  • Be willing to explore and learn new technologies outside of your comfort zone

We’re excited about you because you have experience with

  • You have at least 3 years’ experience working as a professional software engineer/architect on medium/large scale distributed system
  • You have commercial experience with C#.NET and microservices, as well as shipping high-quality backend code into production
  • You have knowledge of Azure and AKS or other containerized application deployment tools
  • 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 strong desire to learn from teammates, learning to work as part of a team that is greater than the sum of its parts
  • It will be highly beneficial if you have knowledge of the financial services industry and the African market
  • A degree in computer science or a related field will be beneficial, however, we care much more about your skills than about how you acquired them

Interested and qualified? Go to M-Kopa Solar on jobs.lever.co to apply

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