Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer II & III
Organisation: M-KOPA
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About Organisation:
The scale and impact of our work is massive. M-KOPA is a fast-growing Fin Tech 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.
Job Summary: 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. We’ve already helped over 7 million customers access over $2 billion in credit. It’s your chance to be part of something that’s literally transforming lives across an entire continent 🌍
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 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.
Our Engineering Approach
- We’re 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 entire software lifecycle – from inception through production to decommissioning under a DevOps culture. You’ll value the constraints that continuous delivery places upon engineering processes and embrace testing and observability as first-order concerns in development.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- 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
How to Apply:
If you are ready to make a difference and drive financial excellence in a dynamic and innovative environment, we want to hear from you!
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Level of Education: Bachelor Degree
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: no experience required