Senior Backend Engineer – AI-Native FinTech (Remote)

M-KOPA; West of England; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Growth Shares

On-Call Allowance

Job summary

M-KOPA is hiring senior backend engineers to join its fully remote Asset Sales group. You’ll build distributed C# and .NET microservices on Azure, operating in an event-driven environment and contributing to AI-native engineering practices across a global team.

The role focuses on delivering scalable fintech services that reach millions across Africa, with a strong emphasis on production readiness, observability, and collaboration across time zones in the UK, Europe, and Africa.

Qualifications

• Strong grasp of C# and .NET development.
• Experience with event-driven systems and messaging (Azure Service Bus, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Microservices architecture experience, ideally on Azure and Kubernetes.
• Experience using observability tooling to understand production behaviour.
• Comfort using AI tools as part of a daily engineering workflow.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate distributed C#/.NET microservices on Azure.
• Work in an event-driven architecture at scale.
• Own end-to-end delivery from idea to production and iteration.

Skills

C# & .NET

Event-driven architecture

Azure service bus

Kubernetes

Observability tooling

Tools

Azure

Grafana

Application Insights

Job description

M-KOPA is hiring senior backend engineers to join its fully remote Asset Sales group. You’ll build distributed C# and .NET microservices on Azure, operating in an event-driven environment and contributing to AI-native engineering practices across a global team.

The role focuses on delivering scalable fintech services that reach millions across Africa, with a strong emphasis on production readiness, observability, and collaboration across time zones in the UK, Europe, and Africa.