Senior Backend Engineer II - AI-Native, Remote

m-kopa; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Growth Shares

On-Call Allowance

Home office budget

Personalised training budget

Flexible working

Job summary

M-KOPA is hiring two permanent Senior Backend Engineers II & III to join the Asset Sales group. You will build and operate distributed C#/.NET microservices on Azure in an event-driven setup, with AI-native engineering embedded from day one. This fully remote role supports teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa.

You’ll own end-to-end delivery, focusing on value creation, production readiness, and scalable systems that empower millions of customers and communities across Africa.

Qualifications

• Strong grasp of C# and .NET development.
• Experience with event-driven systems (Azure Service Bus preferred).
• Microservices architecture experience on Azure and Kubernetes.
• Experience using observability tooling (Grafana, Application Insights).
• Comfort using AI tools as part of daily engineering workflow.
• DevOps mindset with on-call / production ownership.
• Proven ability to collaborate in distributed teams across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end software delivery of distributed C#/.NET microservices on Azure.
• Work within an event-driven architecture at scale.
• Collaborate across time zones to ship value and improve resilience.
• Embrace AI-native approaches throughout the engineering lifecycle.

Skills

C# / .NET

Event-driven systems

Microservices

Observability tooling

AI tooling in engineering

DevOps / on-call ownership

Distributed teamwork

Continuous learning

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

Azure Service Bus

Kafka/RabbitMQ

Job description

M-KOPA is hiring two permanent Senior Backend Engineers II & III to join the Asset Sales group. You will build and operate distributed C#/.NET microservices on Azure in an event-driven setup, with AI-native engineering embedded from day one. This fully remote role supports teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa.

You’ll own end-to-end delivery, focusing on value creation, production readiness, and scalable systems that empower millions of customers and communities across Africa.