Backend Engineer II & III

M-KOPA; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Growth Shares

On-Call Allowance

Home office setup budget

Professional development programs

Job summary

M-KOPA расширяет команду инженерии и ищет двух Senior Backend Engineers II & III для группы Asset Sales в рамках масштабирования FinTech-платформы. Вы будете строить распределённые C#/.NET микросервисы на Azure и работать в событийно-ориентированной архитектуре, чтобы поддержать уникальные финансовые решения для клиентов в Африке.

Полностью удалённая роль, гибкий график, поддержка профессионального роста, бонусы и акции, бюджет на обучение и оборудование для домашнего офиса; ваша работа напрямую

Qualifications

• Глубокие знания C# и .NET, опыт разработки распределённых сервисов
• Опыт работы в событийно-ориентированной архитектуре (Azure Service Bus или аналоги)
• Опыт микросервисной архитектуры на Azure и Kubernetes
• Ориентация на наблюдаемость: Grafana, Application Insights
• Умение работать в распределённых командах и следовать DevOps культуре
• Готовность к использованию инструментов ИИ в ежедневной разработке

Responsibilities

• Миссионно-ориентированная инженерия: каждый сервис расширяет финансовую инклюзию
• Сборка и масштабирование backend-решений для миллионов пользователей
• Работа в полностью распределённой команде across GMT/часовые пояса
• Использование подхода AI-native в процессе проектирования, кода и тестирования
• Обеспечение работающих и надёжных сервисов, мониторинг и инцидент-разбор

Skills

C#

.NET

Azure

Event-driven

Tools

Azure Service Bus

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Grafana

Application Insights

Job description

Описание

Join our expanding engineering team! We're hiring 2x permanent Senior Backend Engineers II & III to join our Asset Sales group as we scale one of the most important parts of M-KOPA's FinTech platform.

Build distributed, event-driven microservices and help shape what AI-native engineering looks like at M-KOPA.

The Impact Your code will directly power the systems that put smartphones and e-motorbikes into the hands of Every Day Earners across Africa.

We've already helped over 10 million customers access more than $2 billion in credit.

It's your chance to be part of something that's literally transforming lives across an entire continent.

Задачи

• Mission-driven engineering: Every service you build helps expand financial inclusion for under-banked populations
• Global recognition: Join a company named by the Financial Times as one of Africa's fastest-growing companies for five consecutive years (2022–2026)
• Scale challenges: Build backend systems serving millions across multiple African markets
• AI-native from day one: We're actively embracing AI as part of the engineering craft, not bolting it on
• Fully distributed: Work remotely with diverse teams across UK, Europe, and Africa At M-KOPA, you'll build and operate distributed C# and .NET microservices on Azure, working within an event-driven architecture at significant scale.

Technical Environment

Modern C# stack: Distributed C# and .NET microservices Cloud & orchestrations: Hosted on Azure using Kubernetes Architecture: Event-driven, supporting products used at significant scale Observability: Grafana, Azure Application Insights, logs, traces, and metrics AI tooling: Claude and other AI tools used throughout the engineering workflow — design exploration, code generation and review, test writing, incident investigation, and technical communication

Our Engineering Approach

• AI-native engineering: We want engineers who tinker — experimenting with new tools, agents, and workflows, and sharing what works
• Guardrails as we accelerate: Automated tests, SLOs, alerting, observability, and deployment safeguards around everything we ship
• Own it beyond the pull request: Design for idempotency, retries, out-of-order events, and failure modes, and know how your services behave in production
• The Campfire Rule: Leave the systems you touch a little better than you found them
• On-call as feedback, not heroics: Engineers who build our systems also help operate them, using incidents to make the platform more resilient

Требования

We're looking for a senior engineer who's curious, autonomous, and highly trusted. You're comfortable owning the entire software stack — including supporting infrastructure — throughout its lifecycle, and you see production data, not just deployment, as the real measure of "done." Strong grasp of C# and .NET development Experience with event-driven systems - We use Azure Service Bus, but would love to hear from you if you have experience with similar messaging technology (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.) Microservices architecture experience, ideally on Azure and Kubernetes Experience using observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Application Insights) to understand production behaviour Comfort using AI tools as part of a daily engineering workflow (design, code review, testing, incident investigation) DevOps culture mindset, including on-call/production ownership Proven ability to collaborate effectively in distributed teams across time zones Continuous learning mindset and openness to feedback

Условия

• Fully remote role, collaborating during core GMT working hours
• Benefits package, which includes Bonus, Growth Shares & On-Call Allowance
• Work with diverse teams distributed across UK, Europe, and Africa
• Personalised training budget to support your development
• Home office setup budget
• Professional development programs and coaching partnerships
• Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements
• Well-being support and career growth opportunities

Our Impact Our technology has created measurable change: Connected: 2.5 million first-time smartphone users connected Prosperous: 70% of customers use M-KOPA products for income generation, with 35,000 livelihoods created for agents Green: 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided since 2010 through clean energy, refurbished devices, and e-mobility

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-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. 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. If your application is successful M-KOPA undertakes pre-employment background checks as part of its recruitment process, these include; criminal records, identification verification, academic qualifications, employment dates and employer references.