M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go PayGo solar energy for off-grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives.
Description
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our growing team at M-KOPA.
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.”
Our roles are fully remote, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3). Our engineers work remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa.
We are looking for good grasp of / and experience with C#.NET, Event Driven Systems, microservices, testing and deployment.
Responsibilities
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/
Our Engineering Approach
As an engineer, you will work as a collaborator. More senior members will coach and contribute, placing an emphasis on:
High quality output
Observability and monitoring
Automated testing in all environments, including production
Infrastructure as code and DevOps practices
