M-KOPA
More roles at M-KOPASenior Backend Engineer - Asset Sales
Remote work allowed only within certain countries or regions.
Employer listed it 4 weeks ago · Added 4 weeks ago
Been open since 4 weeks ago, still being checked, but it has been live a while.
Salary
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Location
Timezone
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Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Software
The employer did not publish a salary, and we have too few comparable roles to estimate one.
What the advert says
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- Working hours
Proven ability to collaborate effectively in distributed teams across time zones
- Where you can work from
- Location eligibility not confirmed
- Contract
We'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.
- Experience asked for
- Not mentioned in the advert
- Pay
- Not mentioned in the advert
Remote flexibility
Region Restricted
Remote work is allowed, but only for candidates based in United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Ireland.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "London, Newcastle, Bristol, Madrid, Belfast, Birmingham, Lisbon, Edinburgh, Dublin, Manchester, Remote"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Applications outside the listed area are usually rejected
- Timezone overlap with the listed area is often expected
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Before you apply
Experience: employer states
Written as a requirement
- “Required Experience:”
- “Experience 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.)”
Written as a nice-to-have
- “Microservices architecture experience, ideally on Azure and Kubernetes”
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About the role
Join our expanding engineering team!
We'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.
The Impact 💚
Your 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 🌍
The Opportunity
🎯 Mission-driven engineering : Every service you build helps expand financial inclusion for under-banked populations
🏆 Global recognition : Join a company named by the Financial Times as one of Africa's fastest-growing companies for five consecutive years (2022–2026)
🚀 Scale challenges : Build backend systems serving millions across multiple African markets
🤖 AI-native from day one : We're actively embracing AI as part of the engineering craft, not bolting it on
🌍 Fully distributed : Work remotely with diverse teams across UK, Europe, and Africa
What You'll Do
At 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.
Technical Environment 💻
Modern C# stack : Distributed C# and .NET microservices
Cloud & orchestration : Hosted on Azure using Kubernetes
Architecture : Event-driven, supporting products used at significant scale
Observability : Grafana, Azure Application Insights, logs, traces, and metrics
AI tooling : Claude and other AI tools used throughout the engineering workflow — design exploration, code generation and review, test writing, incident investigation, and technical communication
Our Engineering Approach 🚀
AI-native engineering : We want engineers who tinker — experimenting with new tools, agents, and workflows, and sharing what works
Guardrails as we accelerate : Automated tests, SLOs, alerting, observability, and deployment safeguards around everything we ship
Own it beyond the pull request : Design for idempotency, retries, out-of-order events, and failure modes, and know how your services behave in production
The Campfire Rule : Leave the systems you touch a little better than you found them
On-call as feedback, not heroics : Engineers who build our systems also help operate them, using incidents to make the platform more resilient
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
- ·Fully remote role, collaborating during core GMT working hours
- ·Work with diverse teams distributed across UK, Europe, and Africa
- ·Personalised training budget to support your development
- ·Home office setup budget
- ·Professional development programs and coaching partnerships
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, region restricted, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at M-KOPA, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
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