Overview

M-KOPA Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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.

Join us in combining cutting-edge .NET development with purpose-driven engineering that makes digital and financial inclusion possible 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.

Your onboarding journey includes an Internal Engineering Bootcamp where you\'ll dive into our event-driven architecture, engineering practices, and how we approach building systems at scale.

Technical Environment

• Modern C# Stack: We use predominantly C# written against the latest .NET stack
• Microservices & Cloud: Microservices hosted on Azure using Kubernetes
• Event-Driven Architecture: Iterating toward a decoupled event-driven architecture
• Mixed Environment: Both legacy services and greenfield microservices

Our Engineering Approach

We are 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:

• High quality output
• Observability and monitoring
• Automated testing in all environments, including production
• Infrastructure as code and DevOps practices
• Knowledge sharing and collaborative problem-solving

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 lifecycle from inception through production to decommissioning under a DevOps culture. You\'ll value continuous delivery constraints and embrace testing and observability as first-order concerns.

• Strong grasp of C# .NET development
• Experience with Event-Driven Systems
• Microservices architecture experience
• Testing and deployment expertise
• DevOps culture mindset
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively in distributed teams
• Continuous learning mindset and openness to feedback

Location & Benefits

• Fully remote role within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones
• Work with diverse teams distributed across UK, Europe, and Africa
• Personalised training budget to support your development
• Home office setup budget
• Internal Engineering Bootcamp: immersive onboarding into our event-driven architecture
• Professional development programs and coaching partnerships
• Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements
• Well-being support and career growth opportunities

Our Mission & Impact

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 technology has created measurable change:

• 2.5 million first-time mobile internet users connected
• 70% of customers use M-KOPA products for income generation, with 35,000 livelihoods created for agents
• 2.1 million tonnes of CO2 avoided through clean energy products and e-mobility

Ready to build C# .NET solutions that create real-world financial inclusion? Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews will take place at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date.