Android Engineer

**At M-KOPA, We Finance Progress.
At M-KOPA we are looking for an Android Engineer to join the Retention Product Group. The group is made of four Agile Teams**:

- Digital Financial Services -** Focused on offering customers cash-loans through our M-KOPA App, and all the backend services required to support this.

**- Eligibility** - Working with Data Scientists to bring real-time eligibility checks to decide _if_, and _how much_ we can offer a customer in a cash-loan.

**- Identity** - Ensuring a seamless customer login experience.

**- Customer Interactions** - A platform team that owns the direct interactions with customers, including the native Android App, SMS and USSD.

It is a **fully remote role **#LI-Remote, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3). You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager.

**About this role**:

- Our Android team is relatively small. We have 9 specialists with combined experience in Android, Kotlin and team leading. Our Android Engineers are part of our engineering department, which is always growing. Our engineers work remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa.
- As a Android Engineer, you will work in a cross-functional team of android, backend engineers, product managers and testers. Your main responsibilities will design, develop, and maintain M-KOPA’s Customer apps, and deliver software that scales with both company and customer growth.
- We are a team of passionate product-focused engineers committed building and encouraging an environment where our colleagues feel valued. We encourage knowledge sharing and learning as much as possible.

**You’re excited about this opportunity because**:

- You like to put your people and teammates first and 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
- You have the opportunity to identify gaps in the product experience, influence the project and the way we work
- You embrace DevOps mindset and understand the 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
- You will follow software best practices when handle sensitive data and Protect Personally Identifiable Information (PII)
- You will own releases, support product teams and troubleshoot issues, driving improvements in our codebase and standards
- You enjoy working in cross functional domain teams, collaborating on issues and deep diving into features to improve our users’ lives
- Advocate CI / CD best practices and understand the importance of writing clean code

**We’re excited about you because you**:

- You are excited to work on product-driven development.
- You have commercial experience in Android and Kotlin and you prefer taking ownership.
- You know how to setup analytics experiments and make data-driven decisions.
- You understand the importance of testing and you are experience writing clear and reliable tests as well as aware of testing best practices (i.e. testing pyramid and test automation)
- You are experienced with Kotlin coroutines and structured concurrency
- You are familiar with the Jetpack tool suite and modern Android development practices.
- You have previously worked for a large-scale product and you are familiar with the following: Trunk-based development, Clean Architecture, Dependency Injection, Uni-directional data flow (MVI), Feature Toggles, Docker and Azure DevOps
- It will be beneficial if you have device locking, connected asset financing or banking experience

**What's in for you**:

- Private health insurance (inpatient outpatient, maternity, eye care, and dental)
- Group Life Cover
- Remote working (dependent on the nature of the role)
- Airtime allowance (dependent on the nature of the role)
- WIFI payment up to 5 Mbps monthly (dependent on the nature of the role)
- 21 days per annum (excluding public holidays). Annual leave is accrued at the standard rate of 1.75 days per month
- ** Annual Learning and Development Fund** - You have an annual **$ 1,200 allowance** to spend on learning and development
- ** Home Office Set Up - **this includes a budget of $1000 that you can use at any time after signing the offer letter
- **On site retreats** with wider tech team, plus trips to operational markets

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 explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or appre