{"id":1529975,"url":"https://alion.io/job/m-kopa-senior-backend-engineer-asset-sales","title":"Senior Backend Engineer - Asset Sales","company":{"id":4037,"name":"M-KOPA","domain":"m-kopa.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/m-kopa","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":91,"open_postings":8,"ghost_share":0.125,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0.125,"time_to_fill_p50_days":22,"computed_at":"2026-11-04T06:34:25Z"}},"role":"Backend","role_family":"Backend","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"posting_text","remote_working_hours":{"label":"GMT","utc_offset_min":0,"utc_offset_max":0},"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":["Nairobi, Kenya","Cape Town, South Africa","Lagos, Nigeria","Kampala, Uganda","Accra, Ghana","Johannesburg, South Africa"],"countries":["KE","ZA","NG","UG","GH"],"hiring_countries":["GB","KE","NG","ZA","GH","UG"],"hiring_countries_total":6,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Apache Kafka","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"C#","optional":false},{"name":"Grafana","optional":false},{"name":"Kubernetes","optional":false},{"name":"RabbitMQ","optional":false},{"name":"Claude","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-30T09:06:10Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-30","last_verified_at":"2026-11-04T21:57:14Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":35,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":35},"description":"Join our expanding engineering team!\nWe're hiring a permanent Senior Backend Engineer to join our Asset Sales group as we scale one of the most important parts of M-KOPA's FinTech platform. Build distributed, event-driven microservices and help shape what AI-native engineering looks like at M-KOPA.\nThe Impact\nYour code will directly power the systems that put smartphones and e-motorbikes into the hands of Every Day Earners across Africa. We've already helped over 10 million customers access more than $2 billion in credit. It's your chance to be part of something that's literally transforming lives across an entire continent\nThe Opportunity\nMission-driven engineering: Every service you build helps expand financial inclusion for under-banked populations\nGlobal recognition: Join a company named by the Financial Times as one of Africa's fastest-growing companies for five consecutive years (2022-2026)\nScale challenges: Build backend systems serving millions across multiple African markets\nAI-native from day one: We're actively embracing AI as part of the engineering craft, not bolting it on\nFully distributed: Work remotely with diverse teams across UK, Europe, and Africa\nWhat You'll Do\nAt M-KOPA, you'll build and operate distributed C# and .NET microservices on Azure, working within an event-driven architecture at significant scale. This is an outcomes-driven role: we care far more about the value you create than where you sit or how many hours you're online. You'll own what you build end-to-end - from idea, through implementation and deployment, into production and iteration.\nTechnical Environment\nModern C# stack: Distributed C# and .NET microservices\n\nCloud & orchestration: Hosted on Azure using Kubernetes\n\nArchitecture: Event-driven, supporting products used at significant scale\n\nObservability: Grafana, Azure Application Insights, logs, traces, and metrics\n\nAI tooling: Claude and other AI tools used throughout the engineering workflow - design exploration, code generation and review, test writing, incident investigation, and technical communication\n\nOur Engineering Approach\nAI-native engineering: We want engineers who tinker - experimenting with new tools, agents, and workflows, and sharing what works\n\nGuardrails as we accelerate: Automated tests, SLOs, alerting, observability, and deployment safeguards around everything we ship\n\nOwn it beyond the pull request: Design for idempotency, retries, out-of-order events, and failure modes, and know how your services behave in production\n\nThe Campfire Rule: Leave the systems you touch a little better than you found them\n\nOn-call as feedback, not heroics: Engineers who build our systems also help operate them, using incidents to make the platform more resilient\n\nWhat You Need\nWe're looking for a senior engineer who's curious, autonomous, and highly trusted. You're comfortable owning the entire software stack - including supporting infrastructure - throughout its lifecycle, and you see production data, not just deployment, as the real measure of \"done.\"\nRequired Experience:\nStrong grasp of C# and .NET development\n\nExperience with event-driven systems - We use Azure Service Bus, but would love to hear from you if you have experience with similar messaging technology (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)\n\nMicroservices architecture experience, ideally on Azure and Kubernetes\n\nExperience using observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Application Insights) to understand production behaviour\n\nComfort using AI tools as part of a daily engineering workflow (design, code review, testing, incident investigation)\n\nDevOps culture mindset, including on-call/production ownership\n\nProven ability to collaborate effectively in distributed teams across time zones\n\nContinuous learning mindset and openness to feedback\n\nLocation & Benefits\nFully remote role, collaborating during core GMT working hours\n\nWork with diverse teams distributed across UK, Europe, and Africa\n\nPersonalised training budget to support your development\n\nHome office setup budget\n\nProfessional development programs and coaching partnerships\n\nFamily-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements\n\nWell-being support and career growth opportunities\n\nOur Mission\nWe 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.\nOur Impact\nOur technology has created measurable change:\nConnected: 2.5 million first-time smartphone users connected\n\nProsperous: 70% of customers use M-KOPA products for income generation, with 35,000 livelihoods created for agents\n\nGreen: 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided since 2010 through clean energy, refurbished devices, and e-mobility\n\nReady to build C#/.NET systems - with AI as part of your craft - that create real-world financial inclusion? Apply Now!\nWhy M-KOPA?\nAt 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.\nJoin us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com.\nRecognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026), named on CNBC's World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025 & 2026 and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 10 million customers, unlocking $2 billion in cumulative credit for the everyday earners across Africa, in addition to over 10,000 e-bikes financed in Kenya.\n Important Notice\nM-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.\nM-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. 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