Remote Senior Backend Engineer – AI-Driven FinTech

M-KOPA; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote role with GMT hours

Diverse teams across UK, Europe, and 2

Training budget

Home office setup budget

Professional development programs

Family-friendly policies

Well-being support

Job summary

M-KOPA is hiring a permanent Senior Backend Engineer to join our Asset Sales group. You will build distributed C#/.NET microservices on Azure in an event-driven architecture, shipping features that power financial inclusion across Africa.

Work fully remotely with teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa. You will own end-to-end delivery from idea to production, contribute to AI-native engineering, and help scale systems used by millions of customers.

Qualifications

• Strong grasp of C# and .NET development.
• Experience with event-driven systems and messaging (Azure Service Bus, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Microservices on Azure and Kubernetes experience.
• Observability tooling (Grafana, Application Insights).
• Comfort using AI tools in daily engineering workflow.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery from idea to production and iteration.
• Build distributed C#/.NET microservices on Azure in an event-driven architecture.
• Collaborate with distributed teams across time zones (UK, Europe, Africa).
• Contribute to AI-native engineering practices and tooling.
• Ensure reliability with automated tests, SLOs, and observability.

Skills

C# / .NET

Azure

Microservices

Event-driven

Azure Service Bus / Kafka / RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Observability

AI tooling

On-call / Production ownership

Distributed teams

Tools

Grafana

Application Insights

Claude AI

Job description

M-KOPA is hiring a permanent Senior Backend Engineer to join our Asset Sales group. You will build distributed C#/.NET microservices on Azure in an event-driven architecture, shipping features that power financial inclusion across Africa.

Work fully remotely with teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa. You will own end-to-end delivery from idea to production, contribute to AI-native engineering, and help scale systems used by millions of customers.