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.
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.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
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.
- Required 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
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
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