About the Role
M-KOPA is a fast-fintech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services through advanced connected asset financing. We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer - Asset Sales to join our fully distributed engineering team and help expand financial inclusion at scale.
Key Responsibilities- Build and operate distributed C# and .NET microservices on Azure within an event-driven architecture.
- Own backend services end-to-end from ideation and implementation through deployment, monitoring, and production iteration.
- Leverage AI tooling like Claude throughout the engineering workflow for design exploration, code generation, and test writing.
- Maintain high reliability using observability tools such as Grafana and Azure Application Insights.
- Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure platform resilience and continuous system improvement.
- Extensive professional experience with C# and .NET development.
- Strong background in event-driven systems using Azure Service Bus, Kafka, or RabbitMQ.
- Proven expertise in microservices architecture hosted on Azure and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with observability platforms like Grafana and Azure Application Insights.
- Demonstrated comfort using AI tools in daily development workflows.
- Strong DevOps mindset with experience in production ownership and distributed team collaboration.
- Work remotely with diverse, high-performing teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa.
- Contribute to mission-driven engineering that directly expands financial inclusion.
- Engage with cutting-edge AI-native engineering practices and modern cloud infrastructure.
- Join a globally recognized fintech leader experiencing rapid, sustained growth.