SENIOR BACKEND ENGINEER I AT M-KOPA NIGERIA

About Company:

M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech 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.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

Job Description:

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. 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

Requirements:

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.

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.

Salary

Application Closing Date: Not specified

Application Instructions:

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