About the Role
M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go solar energy, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world. We are currently expanding our engineering team and hiring two permanent Senior Backend Engineers II & III to join our Asset Sales group, helping to build distributed, event-driven microservices and shape AI-native engineering at M-KOPA.
Key Responsibilities- Build and maintain distributed C# and .NET microservices hosted on Azure using Kubernetes.
- Design event-driven architectures supporting products used at significant scale, utilizing Azure Service Bus.
- Integrate AI tooling like Claude throughout the engineering workflow for design exploration, code generation, and test writing.
- Maintain high reliability through automated tests, SLOs, alerting, observability tools like Grafana, and deployment safeguards.
- Own services end-to-end, participating in on-call rotations to ensure platform resilience and performance.
- Strong professional grasp of C# and .NET development in production environments.
- Demonstrated experience with event-driven systems and messaging technologies like Azure Service Bus, Kafka, or RabbitMQ.
- Hands-on microservices architecture experience, preferably utilizing Azure and Kubernetes.
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Grafana and Azure Application Insights.
- Comfort leveraging AI tools as an integral part of daily software engineering workflows.
- Strong DevOps mindset with a commitment to continuous learning and cross-time-zone collaboration.
- Fully remote work arrangement collaborating during core GMT working hours with diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa.
- Competitive compensation package including performance bonuses, growth shares, and on-call allowances.
- Personalised training budgets, professional development programs, and coaching partnerships.
- Home office setup allowance and comprehensive well-being support.
- Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements.