Senior Backend Engineer .NET (Remote)

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25.04.2025

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09.06.2025

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At M-KOPA, We Finance Progress. The scale and impact of our work is massive. 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 “PayGo’” solar energy for off-grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives. Our people reflect this mission; we pride ourselves in empowering our people to own their own careers, and encouraging growth through our learning and development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. As a collective, we value diversity, knowing every journey brings its own reward, and support each employee as they travel theirs. This includes our family-friendly policies, commitment to employee mental and physical well-being, and flexible working practices. Our aim is for every employee to be able to shape their own career, whilst helping shape the future of M-KOPA as we grow together.

At M-KOPA, we are looking for a Backend Engineer to join the Retention Product Group. The group is responsible for retaining these customers by continuously providing them with life-changing products such as cash loans, insurance, and buy-now-pay-later products. The group is made of four Agile Teams:

1. Digital Financial Services - Focused on offering customers cash loans through our M-KOPA App, and all the backend services required to support this.
2. 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.
3. Identity - Ensuring a seamless customer login experience.
4. 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). Our engineers work remotely from locations such as the UK, Europe, and Africa. You will be reporting to the Engineering Manager.

About this role:

1. We pay important emphasis on Infrastructure as Code, Observability, and Automated Testing in all environments, including Production, which will be part of your daily job.
2. We foster autonomy inside the teams, while keeping some standards across the company. We use the latest .NET stack, and the microservices are based in Azure using Kubernetes.
3. For us, working as a team in a DevOps culture environment is a priority.
4. We have a mix of legacy services and greenfield microservices, so if you love the challenge of improving a legacy codebase while working on new projects, and if you love working remotely, this might be a job for you.

You’re excited about this opportunity because:

1. You like to put your people and teammates first and bring your most empathetic self to work.
2. You will deliver end-to-end backend applications in an Event Driven Architecture.
3. You take a product-focused approach to development and drive changes with data.
4. You make technical decisions based on stakeholders and user needs.
5. You understand clean architecture and know how to keep domain teams decoupled.
6. You write clear and reliable automated tests using testing best practices such as TDD.
7. You apply data security practices, such as protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII).

We’re excited about you because you:

1. You have at least 3 years’ experience working as a professional software engineer.
2. You have commercial experience, as well as shipping high-quality backend code into production.
3. You have knowledge of Azure and AKS or other containerized application deployment tools.
4. You can write high-quality code by applying software development principles such as KISS, YAGNI.
5. You are comfortable with the DevOps culture and with the idea of being involved with the management of the systems that you build through their entire lifecycle.
6. You have a collaborative spirit and a strong desire to learn from teammates, learning to work as part of a team that is greater than the sum of its parts.
7. It will be highly beneficial if you have knowledge of the financial services industry and the African market.
8. A degree in computer science or a related field will be beneficial; however, we care much more about your skills than about how you acquired them.

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 apprenticeships. M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.