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
Integral 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 explora
📌 Senior Backend Engineer (Madrid)
🏢 M-KOPA
📍 Madrid