Senior Backend Engineer

Senior Backend Engineer (I, II & III)

Your code will directly power technology solutions for millions of people across Africa who have been excluded from traditional financial services.

We’ve already helped over 7 million customers access more than $2 billion in credit.

It’s your chance to transform lives across an entire continent.

• Mission‑driven engineering :
  Every service you build expands financial inclusion for underbanked populations.
• Global recognition : M‑KOPA is named by TIME and the Financial Times as Africa’s fastest‑growing companies).
• Scale challenges :
  Build backend systems that serve millions across multiple African markets.
• Environmental impact :
  We are carbon‑negative, having displaced over 2.1 million tonnes of emissions.
• Fully distributed :
  Work remotely with diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa.

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—combining cutting‑edge.

.NET development with purpose‑driven engineering that makes digital and financial inclusion possible across Africa.

• Modern C# stack :
  Predominantly C# written against the latest .NET stack.
• Microservices & cloud :
  Microservices hosted on Azure using Kubernetes.
• Event‑driven architecture :
  Continuous iteration toward a completely decoupled, event‑driven architecture.
• Mixed environment :
  Both legacy services and greenfield microservices.

When you join, you’ll participate in an Internal Engineering Bootcamp—an immersive onboarding experience with our staff engineering group.

You’ll deep‑dive into our event‑driven architecture, explore our engineering practices, and understand how we build systems at scale.

We invest in getting you up to speed properly from day one.

• High‑quality output.
• Observability and monitoring.
• Automated testing in all environments, including production.
• Infrastructure as code and Dev Ops practices.
• Knowledge sharing and collaborative problem‑solving.

We expect you to be comfortable working as part of a team that owns the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire lifecycle—from inception through production to decommissioning—all within a Dev Ops culture.

You value the constraints that continuous delivery places on engineering processes and treat testing and observability as first‑order concerns.

• Strong grasp of C# .
• .NET development.
• Experience with event‑driven systems.
• Microservices architecture experience.
• Testing and deployment expertise.
• Dev Ops culture mindset.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively in distributed teams.
• Continuous learning mindset and openness to feedback.

Fully remote role within UTC
-1 to UTC time zones.

Work with diverse teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa.

Personalised training budget to support your development.

• Internal Engineering Bootcamp : immersive onboarding focused on event‑driven architecture.
• Professional development programs and coaching partnerships.
• Family‑friendly policies and flexible working arrangements.
• Well‑being support and career growth opportunities.

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

• Connected : 2.5 million first‑time mobile internet users connected.
• Prosperous : 70% of customers use M‑KOPA products for income generation, creating 35, livelihoods for agents.
• Green : 2.1 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided through clean‑energy products and e‑mobility, with over , circular‑economy products provided.

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, prioritise well‑being, and embrace flexibility.

M‑KOPA is an equal‑opportunity and affirmative‑action employer committed to assembling a…