Senior Backend Engineer (.NET)

M-KOPA Kenya Limited; London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial technology is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to develop impactful microservices using C# and .NET. This fully remote role emphasizes collaboration, testing, and DevOps best practices to advance financial inclusion in Africa. Join a team committed to excellence while driving meaningful change.

Benefits

Diverse development programs

Coaching partnerships

Family-friendly policies

Well-being prioritization

Work-life flexibility

Qualifications

• Good grasp of C#.NET and experience with microservices.
• Understanding of event-driven architecture is crucial.
• Experience in testing and deployment practices.

Responsibilities

• Build sophisticated event-driven microservices.
• Ensure quality output and continuous delivery.
• Collaborate in a DevOps environment across the software lifecycle.

Skills

C#

Event Driven Systems

Microservices

Testing

Deployment

Job description

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing team at M-KOPA.

''At M-KOPA, you'll build sophisticated event-driven microservices with real-world impact. Our engineering teams own their solutions end-to-end – from architecture decisions to production monitoring. Join us in combining cutting-edge .NET development with purpose-driven engineering that makes digital and financial inclusion possible across Africa."

About us

At M-KOPA, we're revolutionising financial inclusion and connectivity across Africa through innovative technology solutions. Our platform has unlocked $1.5 billion in credit, connected 1.7 million first-time internet users, and impacted over 23 million lives.

Technical Environment

• Modern C# Stack: We use predominantly C# written against the latest .NET stack

• Microservices & Cloud: We favour microservices hosted on Azure using Kubernetes

• Event-Driven Architecture: We are constantly iterating towards a completely decoupled, event-driven architecture

• Mixed Environment: We have both legacy services and greenfield microservices

Our Engineering Approach

As an engineer, you will work as a collaborator. More senior members will coach and contribute, placing an emphasis on:

• High quality output

• Observability and monitoring

• Automated testing in all environments, including production

• Infrastructure as code and DevOps practices

Our roles are fully remote, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3). Our engineers work remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa.

What You'll Bring

We expect you to be comfortable working as part of a team which owns the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire software lifecycle - from inception through production to decommissioning under a DevOps culture. You'll value the constraints that continuous delivery places upon engineering processes and embrace testing and observability as first-order concerns in development.

Our Mission

We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities.

Our Impact

Our technology has created measurable change:

• Connected : 1.7 million first-time mobile internet users connected

• Prosperous : 62% of customers use M-KOPA smartphones for income generation, with 30,000+ livelihoods created for agents

• Green : 2.1 million tonnes of CO2 avoided through clean energy products, with over 100,000 circular economy products provided

Join us in building C# .NET solutions that create real-world financial inclusion while advancing your career in modern backend engineering!

We are looking for good grasp of / and experience with C#.NET, Event Driven Systems, microservices, testing and deployment.

Why M-KOPA?

At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.

Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com.

Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 5 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa.

Important Notice

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-KOPAexplicitly 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/chargeany money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This meansthat 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.

Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews will take place at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date.