Senior Backend Engineer I

Join our expanding engineering team!

We’re continuing to hire multiple Senior Backend Engineers (I, II & III) as we scale our growing FinTech team at M-KOPA. Build sophisticated event-driven microservices that unlock financial inclusion across Africa.
The Impact:

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

Mission-driven engineering: Every service you build helps expand financial inclusion for under-banked populations
Global recognition: Join a company named by TIME 100 as one of the world’s most influential and by the Financial Times as Africa’s fastest-growing for 4 consecutive years (2022-2025)
Scale challenges: Build backend systems serving millions across multiple African markets
Environmental impact: We’re carbon-negative, having displaced over 2.1 million tonnes of emissions
Fully distributed: Work remotely with diverse teams across UK, Europe, and 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 on-boarding 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.