Vacancies at M-KOPA

Vacancies at M-KOPA

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: Senior Lead – Shared Services and Recruitment

Location: Nigeria
Job type: Short-Term Contract
Department: Human Resources

Job Purpose

• As Senior Lead – Shared Services & Recruitment, you will provide high-quality HR administrative support and will be the first point of contact for employees and managers regarding Shared Services and Recruitment-related inquiries. This includes supporting the onboarding of new team members.
• This is a short-term contract for four (4) months only.

Responsibilities
What you will do:

• Respond to HR-related inquiries from employees and managers raised through our ticketing system within the service level agreement.
• Help administer HR processes, including onboarding, offboarding, and documenting employee changes.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date employee data in the HR system and other HR-related databases.
• Produce HR reports and analyze HR data to support decision-making.
• Provide administrative support in the preparation of new hire contracts, contract renewals, and employee change documents.
• Ensure compliance with HR policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of HR procedures.
• Maintain the confidentiality of all HR-related information.
• Manage end-to-end recruitment for Nigeria.
• Coordinate onboarding for new team members in Nigeria.
• Update all recruitment trackers.

Requirements

• Diploma Holder / Degree holder, preferably in Human Resource or a related field.
• 3+ years of HR-related experience.
• Experience and a high capacity for managing multiple tasks and people simultaneously while delivering high-quality output.
• Highly computer literate with capability in email, MS Office, and related business and communication tools.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Application Security Engineer

Location: Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
Department: Technology

Overview

• This role would involve performing vulnerability testing of M-KOPA mobiles, IoT and automotive devices, diagnosing possible hardware-based and software-based attacks, particularly for Android mobile phones and embedded systems and by extension assisting in forensic analysis of the same.

Collaboration

• We aim for autonomy and collaboration within and outside the teams therefore you would be interacting with different stakeholders across the Application Security team, Threat Intelligence team, IT team and 3rd party vendors; verifying tech/apps from vendors that can be used to prevent potential threats from infiltrating our devices.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Head of Product, E-Mobility

Location: Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
Department: Mobility

Responsibilities
In this role, you’ll be expected to:

• Know all things electric mobility – from battery supply chains to battery management system AI algorithms to future price curves to electric charger types to manufacturing assembly tax benefits
• Be a key leader in defining the product strategic direction of M-KOPA’s electric mobility business
• Design, run, and iterate M-KOPA’s electric vehicle and electric charging / swapping tests and feed that input back into product evolution
• Manage M-KOPA’s electric vehicle, charging infrastructure, and supply chain partners

Requirements
You Might Be A Good Fit If:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience working as a Head of Product or Sr. Product manager
• Priority will be given to those with deep technical experience with products involving electric vehicles and/or lithium ion batteries and/or EV battery management systems and/or finance lease software systems.
• Priority will be given to those with market experience in the markets M-KOPA operates in
• You are passionate about products and product management and leading product teams
• You are passionate about electric mobility and lithium-ion batteries and engaging with motorbike drivers, riders and EV companies
• You understand and appreciate the power of credit financing for underbanked populations
• You have experience building electric mobility products and services
• You thrive equally as well in the field engaging with and running customer tests as you do in the Board room reporting on key metrics and building long-term strategy
• You thrive in a fast paced, highly dynamic, work environment
• Be excited about the future of electric mobility and all the social and customer benefits it brings
• You like to have fun and being apart of a close-knit team

Your application should include:

• Evidence of Data Driven Product Development and management
• Successful collaborations with cross-functional team members
• Experience working closely with external stakeholders such as supply chain partners
• Technical experience with products involving electric vehicles and/or lithium ion batteries and/or EV battery management systems and/or finance lease software systems.

Key Details:

• Location: Ideally Nairobi, Kenya – but other locations possible with frequent travel
• Travel: Moderate travel to/within Kenya, and other locations where supply chain partners operate (Africa, India, China, Taiwan, etc)

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Paid Time off
• Sign-on bonus
• Annual Salary review
• Data Allowance
• Bonuses
• Professional Development opportunities

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Hiring Process
Our hiring process is as much about us selling to you as the other way round. Our hiring process is a series of meetings as follows:

• Recruiter call 30 mins – an introduction to the process and M-KOPA
• Hiring Team call 45 mins – High level introductions with an Engineer
• Presentation/Task done at home 2/3 hrs prep
• Task Deep Dive/Final interview 60 mins – This is where most of the magic happens.

Job Title: Head of Product, E-Mobility

Location: Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
Department: Mobility

Responsibilities
In this role, you’ll be expected to:

• Know all things electric mobility – from battery supply chains to battery management system AI algorithms to future price curves to electric charger types to manufacturing assembly tax benefits
• Be a key leader in defining the product strategic direction of M-KOPA’s electric mobility business
• Design, run, and iterate M-KOPA’s electric vehicle and electric charging / swapping tests and feed that input back into product evolution
• Manage M-KOPA’s electric vehicle, charging infrastructure, and supply chain partners

Requirements
You Might Be A Good Fit If:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience working as a Head of Product or Sr. Product manager
• Priority will be given to those with deep technical experience with products involving electric vehicles and/or lithium ion batteries and/or EV battery management systems and/or finance lease software systems.
• Priority will be given to those with market experience in the markets M-KOPA operates in
• You are passionate about products and product management and leading product teams
• You are passionate about electric mobility and lithium-ion batteries and engaging with motorbike drivers, riders and EV companies
• You understand and appreciate the power of credit financing for underbanked populations
• You have experience building electric mobility products and services
• You thrive equally as well in the field engaging with and running customer tests as you do in the Board room reporting on key metrics and building long-term strategy
• You thrive in a fast paced, highly dynamic, work environment
• Be excited about the future of electric mobility and all the social and customer benefits it brings
• You like to have fun and being apart of a close-knit team

Your application should include:

• Evidence of Data Driven Product Development and management
• Successful collaborations with cross-functional team members
• Experience working closely with external stakeholders such as supply chain partners
• Technical experience with products involving electric vehicles and/or lithium ion batteries and/or EV battery management systems and/or finance lease software systems.

Key Details:

• Location: Ideally Nairobi, Kenya – but other locations possible with frequent travel
• Travel: Moderate travel to/within Kenya, and other locations where supply chain partners operate (Africa, India, China, Taiwan, etc)

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Paid Time off
• Sign-on bonus
• Annual Salary review
• Data Allowance
• Bonuses
• Professional Development opportunities

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Hiring Process
Our hiring process is as much about us selling to you as the other way round. Our hiring process is a series of meetings as follows:

• Recruiter call 30 mins – an introduction to the process and M-KOPA
• Hiring Team call 45 mins – High level introductions with an Engineer
• Presentation/Task done at home 2/3 hrs prep
• Task Deep Dive/Final interview 60 mins – This is where most of the magic happens.

Job Title: Principal Engineer

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description
Collaboration:

• As an engineer in the group you will work as a collaborator, more senior members will coach and contribute placing an emphasis on high quality output observability and monitoring as well as automated testing in all environments, including production.
• One team in particular uses infrastructure as code demonstrating the unique nature of some of our work.
• We foster autonomy inside the teams, while keeping some standards across the company. We use predominantly C# written against the latest .NET stack, and favour microservices hosted on Azure using Kubernetes for all new implementations. We are constantly iterating towards a completely decoupled, event driven architecture across our entire software portfolio.

Remote:

• Our roles are fully remote, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3). Our engineers work remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa.
• 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 working remotely full time appeals, this might be a job for you.
• Our expectations are that you would be comfortable working as part of a team which owns the entire software stack, including the supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire software lifecycle from inception, through production and right the way to decommissioning under a DevOps culture.
• If you also value the constraints that continuous delivery places upon engineering processes and embrace testing and observability as first order concerns in the development of software, you probably have what it takes to join one of the teams and help shape our future.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Principal Engineer

Location: Nigeria
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description
Collaboration:

• As an engineer in the group you will work as a collaborator, more senior members will coach and contribute placing an emphasis on high quality output observability and monitoring as well as automated testing in all environments, including production.
• One team in particular uses infrastructure as code demonstrating the unique nature of some of our work.
• We foster autonomy inside the teams, while keeping some standards across the company. We use predominantly C# written against the latest .NET stack, and favour microservices hosted on Azure using Kubernetes for all new implementations. We are constantly iterating towards a completely decoupled, event driven architecture across our entire software portfolio.

Remote:

• Our roles are fully remote, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3). Our engineers work remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa.
• 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 working remotely full time appeals, this might be a job for you.
• Our expectations are that you would be comfortable working as part of a team which owns the entire software stack, including the supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire software lifecycle from inception, through production and right the way to decommissioning under a DevOps culture.
• If you also value the constraints that continuous delivery places upon engineering processes and embrace testing and observability as first order concerns in the development of software, you probably have what it takes to join one of the teams and help shape our future.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online