Senior Analytics Engineer - Financial Inclusion at Scale

We’re looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to join our team at M-KOPA. Build the analytics infrastructure that powers data-driven decisions across our FinTech platform serving millions in Africa.

The Impact

• Your data pipelines and models will directly enable product teams to understand and expand financial inclusion for millions across Africa. We’ve already helped over 5 million customers access over $1.5 billion in credit. It’s your chance to shape how data drives decisions that transform lives across an entire continent.

The Opportunity

• Mission-driven analytics: Every dataset you model helps teams measure and expand financial inclusion for under-banked populations
• Global recognition: Join a company named by TIME 100 as one of the world’s most influential and by the Financial Times as Africa’s fastest-growing for 4 consecutive years (2022-2025)
• Scale challenges: Build analytics infrastructure processing data for millions across multiple African markets
• Environmental impact: We’re carbon-negative, having displaced over 2 million tonnes of emissions

What You’ll Do

• Own analytics datasets and pipelines for specific product domains with real-world impact. You’ll have full autonomy to drive the analytics direction for your areas – from defining success metrics to building self-serve capabilities.
• Combine cutting-edge data engineering with purpose-driven analytics.

Technical Environment

• Modern Analytics Stack: SQL and Python in dbt on Airflow infrastructure
• Data Warehouse Architecture: Dimensional data modelling for big data infrastructures; modern distributed data warehouses (Databricks experience a plus)
• BI & Semantic Layer: Looker for semantic models and self-serve analytics
• Orchestration: Airflow for pipeline automation and scheduling

Our Analytics Approach

• Collaborative partner in a matrix organisation with 12 Analytics Engineers and 3 Platform Engineers
• Build: easy-to-understand datasets, well-tested data assets, self-serve capabilities, documentation, and best practices in data transformation pipelines
• Coach: close collaboration with software engineers on data capture

What You Need

• Comfort owning analytics infrastructure end-to-end, from defining key metrics with cross-functional partners to building production pipelines
• Value clean dimensional modelling, testing, and documentation as first-order concerns
• Enjoy coaching others on self-serve analytics

• Required Experience

• Dimensional data modelling for analytics / data warehouses / big data infrastructures
• High proficiency in SQL (any dialect)
• Programming in Python, Java or other language
• Deep understanding of data warehouse technologies
• Hands-on with BI tools such as Looker or Tableau
• Track record using transformation tools such as dbt
• Practical experience with orchestration systems such as Airflow
• Strong communication skills with proven ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences

• Bonus Experience

• Databricks implementation or migration experience
• Consumer-facing product analytics background

Location & Benefits

• Fully remote role within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones
• Work with diverse teams across UK, Europe, and Africa
• Professional development programs and coaching partnerships
• Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements
• Well-being support and career growth opportunities

Our Mission

We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities.

Our Impact

Our technology has created measurable change:

• Connected: 1.7 million first-time mobile internet users connected
• Prosperous: 62% of customers use M-KOPA smartphones for income generation, with 30,000+ livelihoods created for agents
• Green: 2.1 million tonnes of CO2 avoided through clean energy products

Ready to build analytics infrastructure that measures and enables real-world financial inclusion while advancing your career in modern data engineering? At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritise well-being, and embrace flexibility. Apply now to join our mission of transforming lives across Africa through technology.

Why M-KOPA?

Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com.

Recognized by the Financial Times and TIME100 for multiple years, with over 5 million customers served and $1.5 billion in cumulative credit extended to the unbanked across Africa.