Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven FinTech (Remote)

M-KOPA; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 1,500,000 - 2,167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role

Training budget

Home office setup

Development programs

Flexible working

Well-being support

Job summary

M-KOPA is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our expanding engineering team. You will build distributed, event-driven C#/.NET microservices on Azure, owning end-to-end delivery from concept to production and iteration.

In this role, you’ll operate within an AI-native engineering approach while collaborating with diverse teams across GMT core hours. We offer fully remote work, a generous training budget, home office setup, and ongoing professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Strong grasp of C# and .NET development.
• Experience with event-driven systems and messaging tech.
• Microservices architecture on Azure/Kubernetes.
• Experience using observability tooling to understand production behaviour.
• Comfort using AI tools as part of daily workflow.
• DevOps culture mindset with on-call ownership.
• Collaborative in distributed teams across time zones.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate distributed C#/.NET microservices on Azure.
• Own end-to-end delivery from idea to production and iteration.
• Design for scalability in an event-driven architecture.
• Work with AI tooling to support development and incident response.

Skills

C# & .NET

Event-driven

Microservices

Observability tooling

AI tooling

DevOps mindset

Distributed teams

Tools

Azure Service Bus

Azure Kubernetes Service

Grafana

Application Insights

Job description

M-KOPA is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join our expanding engineering team. You will build distributed, event-driven C#/.NET microservices on Azure, owning end-to-end delivery from concept to production and iteration.

In this role, you’ll operate within an AI-native engineering approach while collaborating with diverse teams across GMT core hours. We offer fully remote work, a generous training budget, home office setup, and ongoing professional development opportunities.