Senior Backend Engineer I

Overview

Senior Backend Engineer I role at M-KOPA. Join our expanding engineering team as we scale our FinTech solutions that enable financial inclusion across Africa.

What You'll Do

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.

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

Your On-boarding Journey

When you join, you\'ll participate in our 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 approach building systems at scale. We invest in getting you up to speed properly from day one.

Our Engineering Approach

We\'re looking for low-ego, experienced engineers who collaborate exceptionally well and embrace continual learning. As an engineer, you\'ll work as a collaborator, with more senior members coaching and contributing, placing emphasis on :

What You Need

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.

Location & Benefits

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 :

Ready to build C# .NET solutions that create real-world financial inclusion?

Why 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 .

Note : this description reflects the role and company information as provided. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis and the company reserves the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected.

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