Software Engineering Manager, M-KOPA
Portfolio Management
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Connected asset financing solutions
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Connected asset financing solutions
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make financing for everyday essentials accessible to everyone.
Role
Who you are
- We need someone proven in the coordination and management of multiple software teams working in an agile consumer focused product environment
- They need to be comfortable articulating trade-offs between solutions and managing challenging customer driven stakeholders
What the job involves
- At M-KOPA we are looking for an Engineering Manager to join our Portfolio Product group
- You will be reporting to the group Engineering Manager
- As one of Africa’s leading fintech lenders, M-KOPA issues millions of microloans to our customers every year
- Each of these loans is based on a rigorous credit risk assessment
- Each of these loans needs to be authoritatively tracked, with the results of that tracking aggregated into M-KOPA’s management accounting systems
- In addition our overall lending portfolio needs to be continuously stress-tested and reforecasted, to ensure that it is evolving in-line with our expectations
- Practically speaking this means that you will be responsible for directly managing multiple engineering teams to build and maintain transactional systems for core areas of loan management systems, while also working extremely closely with Data Scientists and Analytics Engineers to support our broader Portfolio Management work
- At M-KOPA we deploy multiple times per day, and you will be empowered to drive the architecture of our new fleet of microservices
- 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
Our take
M-KOPA is an asset financing company in East Africa, that provides solar energy solutions to under-served households. The company offers a pay-as-you-go model, allowing customers to access solar products like panels and batteries without upfront costs.
M-KOPA's impact reaches far beyond its innovative financing model. By allowing households to have access to sustainable energy solutions, the company has helped improve overall living conditions for its customers. The widespread adoption of solar products has significantly reduced dependence on fossil fuels, resulting in lower carbon emissions and a cleaner environment.
M-KOPA's robust funding includes debt financing from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, which aims to develop digital connectivity in Kenya. On top of this, a substantial, sustainability-linked 2025 debt financing round will help grow M-KOPA's smartphone products and ramp up market expansion, whilst promoting an environment and social benefit approach to asset financing. The company, then, is a driving force in ensuring sustainable energy access for millions across Africa and beyond.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Nov 2025
$160m
SERIES F
May 2023
$55m
LATE VC
Total funding: $358.1m
Company benefits
- Private health and life insurance
- Remote and flexi working
- Free meals in office
- Fun and collaborative facilities
- Career development opportunities
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
Leadership
Jesse Moore
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously served as the Director at GSMA and Signal Point Partners.
Chad Larson
(Co-Founder)Current CEO of Kopo Kopo and an Advisor at Blue Haven Initiative and KawiSafi Ventures. Previously worked at the Bank of America for 10 years in multiple roles, including Principal and Head of Structured Municipal Products.
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