
1001 - 5000 employees
🏥 Healthcare
📦 Logistics
💳 Fintech
Healthcare • Logistics • Fintech
M-KOPA is a fintech platform founded in 2011 that provides digital financial services to underbanked consumers across Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, and Ghana. The company leverages data and IoT technology to enable digital micropayments, facilitating access to essential products and services such as smartphones, electric motorcycles, solar power systems, digital loans, and health insurance. With over $1 billion in credit extended to 3 million customers, M-KOPA is dedicated to making financing accessible for everyday essentials.
🔥 4 minutes ago
🌐 United Kingdom, South Africa, +5 more countries – Remote
⏰ Full Time
🟠 Senior
🔙 Backend Engineer
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👻 Ghost score 10%
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1001 - 5000 employees
🏥 Healthcare
📦 Logistics
💳 Fintech
Healthcare • Logistics • Fintech
M-KOPA is a fintech platform founded in 2011 that provides digital financial services to underbanked consumers across Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, and Ghana. The company leverages data and IoT technology to enable digital micropayments, facilitating access to essential products and services such as smartphones, electric motorcycles, solar power systems, digital loans, and health insurance. With over $1 billion in credit extended to 3 million customers, M-KOPA is dedicated to making financing accessible for everyday essentials.
• Build and operate distributed C# and .NET microservices on Azure • Work within an event-driven architecture at significant scale • Own services end-to-end from idea through implementation, deployment, production, and iteration • Design for idempotency, retries, out-of-order events, and failure modes • Use Grafana, Azure Application Insights, logs, traces, and metrics to understand production behaviour • Experiment with AI tools, agents, and workflows and share effective practices • Maintain automated tests, SLOs, alerting, observability, and deployment safeguards • Participate in on-call operations and use incidents to improve platform resilience • Collaborate with distributed teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa • Build systems supporting financial inclusion products across African markets
• Strong grasp of C# and .NET development • Experience with event-driven systems and messaging technologies such as Azure Service Bus, Kafka, or RabbitMQ • Microservices architecture experience, ideally on Azure and Kubernetes • Experience using observability tooling such as Grafana and Azure Application Insights • Comfort using AI tools in daily engineering workflows, including design, code review, testing, and incident investigation • DevOps culture mindset, including on-call and production ownership • Proven ability to collaborate effectively in distributed teams across time zones • Continuous learning mindset and openness to feedback • Ability to work during core GMT working hours • Successful candidates must undergo pre-employment background checks
• Bonus, Growth Shares & On-Call Allowance • Personalised training budget • Home office setup budget • Professional development programs and coaching partnerships • Family-friendly policies • Flexible working arrangements • Well-being support • Career growth opportunities • Permanent employment • Fully remote work arrangement
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