M-KOPA
Nairobi
1,001-5,000 employees
A connected asset-financing company that serves customers across Africa and beyond. We aim to make financing for everyday essentials accessible to everyone.
Senior Analytics Platform Engineer
Senior Analytics Platform Engineer
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At M-KOPA, We Finance Progress.
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.
As a Senior Analytics Platform Engineer, you will ensure that our data pipelines run predictably and reliably. This means that those pipelines need to be well engineered (infrastructure as code, observability), need to be built using resilient patterns, and need to be optimised for both read and write performance.
Secondly, you will ensure that our data warehouse is optimised for end-user reads - you’ll look at common query patterns and working with our Analytics Engineers to put in place architecture and performance tuning designed to improve a bunch of user-centric performance metrics.
You will be reporting to the Head of Analytics. #LIremote
YOU ARE EXCITED ABOUT THIS ROLE BECAUSE YOU WILL:
- You will have experience with different data pipeline strategies (e.g. some combination of traditional batch ETL, CDC, event-based).
- You would like to learn about new practices but also pragmatic about when to support existing approaches vs. when to evolve.
- You will shape the way we use technology and the outcomes by bringing DevOps mentality and best practices to the team.
- You will use your experience with, infrastructure-as-code, continuous integration, automated deployment, and first-class observability.
- Use your experience and ideas to help our team apply these patterns to data pipelines.
- Bring your expertise with Databases and/or Data Warehouses performance tuning experience to ensure our queries are performant.
- We want you to relish owning challenges, solving difficult problems and helping us prioritise changes that bring the best value.
WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT YOU BECAUSE YOU HAVE EXPERIENCE IN:
- Experienced with architectural patterns and abstract capabilities.
- Advanced skills in SQL and Python and are demonstrating a high standard for code development within team.
- Advocate for DevOps Culture and CI / CD best practices.
- You can develop moderate to complex data science models and pipelines.
- You're using version control for collaborative development.
- You can produce data models and understand where to use different types of data models.
- You understand different tools and can compare between different data models.
BENEFITS, WHAT’S IN FOR YOU:
- Competitive Salary + Bonus
- Private health insurance (inpatient outpatient, maternity, eye care, and dental)
- Life insurance (2 x gross salary)
- Company pension
- Remote working
- 25 days leave per annum (excludes additional 8 public bank holidays)
- L&D budget
- Home office equipment budget
Diversity@M-KOPA
M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’ or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.
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