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About the Role
Join our expanding engineering team as a Senior Backend Engineer in the Asset Sales group. You will build distributed, event-driven microservices and help define AI-native engineering practices at M-KOPA, contributing to systems that provide financial inclusion across Africa.
Responsibilities
- Build and operate distributed C# and .NET microservices on Azure.
- Work within an event-driven architecture at significant scale.
- Own services end-to-end, from idea to iteration.
- Tinker with and experiment with new AI tools, agents, and workflows.
- Share learnings about AI tools and workflows with the team.
- Contribute to automated tests, SLOs, alerting, observability, and deployment safeguards.
- Design for idempotency, retries, out-of-order events, and failure modes.
- Operate systems and use incidents to improve platform resilience.
Requirements
- Strong grasp of C# and .NET development.
- Experience with event-driven systems (e.g., Azure Service Bus, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
- Microservices architecture experience, ideally on Azure and Kubernetes.
- Experience using observability tooling (e.g., Grafana, Application Insights).
- Comfort using AI tools in daily engineering workflows (design, code review, testing, incident investigation).
- DevOps culture mindset, including on-call/production ownership.
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively in distributed teams across time zones.
- Continuous learning mindset and openness to feedback.
- Curious, autonomous, and highly trusted.
- Comfortable owning the entire software stack throughout its lifecycle.
- View production data as the true measure of 'done'.
Skills
- C#
- .NET
- Event-driven architecture
- Microservices
- Azure
- Kubernetes
- Grafana
- Azure Application Insights
- AI tooling
- DevOps
Location
- Fully remote
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Fully distributed
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- Bonus
- Growth Shares
- On-Call Allowance
- Personalised training budget
- Home office setup budget
- Professional development programs
- Coaching partnerships
- Family-friendly policies
- Flexible working arrangements
- Well-being support
- Career growth opportunities
About the Company
- M-KOPA creates financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model.
- Strives to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities.
- Technology has connected 2.5 million first-time smartphone users, enabled 70% of customers to use products for income generation, created 35,000 livelihoods for agents, and avoided 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂.
- Recognized by the Financial Times as one of Africa's fastest-growing companies for multiple consecutive years.
- Named on CNBC's World’s Top Fintech Companies.
- Recognized by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world.
- Empowers employees to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching, and on-the-job training.
- Supports individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritizes well-being, and embraces flexibility.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
- M-KOPA 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 apprenticeships.
- M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement.
- M-KOPA undertakes pre-employment background checks including criminal records, identification verification, academic qualifications, employment dates and employer references.