Senior Backend Engineer III (.NET) at M-KOPA – Lagos (Remote)

M-KOPA is recruiting a permanent Senior Backend Engineer III (.NET) to join its Asset Sales engineering group. The company is hiring two senior backend engineers across grades II and III to build services that support connected-asset financing products across African markets. This is a remote position associated with Lagos, with collaboration during core GMT working hours.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate distributed C# and .NET microservices on Azure within an event-driven architecture supporting M-KOPA’s Asset Sales products.
• Own services through design, implementation, deployment, production operation and continuous improvement.
• Develop resilient systems that account for retries, idempotency, out-of-order events and other production failure modes.
• Use tests, service-level objectives, alerts and observability tools to maintain reliability and improve incident response.
• Apply appropriate AI tools to engineering work, including design exploration, coding, reviews, testing and incident investigation.
• Collaborate across distributed teams, participate in production support and share improvements to engineering practices.

Technical environment

The team uses C# and .NET microservices, Azure, Kubernetes, event-driven architecture, Azure Service Bus, Grafana, Application Insights and AI engineering tools such as Claude.

Requirements

• Strong C# and .NET development experience, including microservices architecture.
• Experience with event-driven or messaging systems such as Azure Service Bus, Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Experience of cloud infrastructure, ideally Azure and Kubernetes.
• Ability to use Grafana, Azure Application Insights, logs, traces and metrics to understand production behaviour.
• Comfort using AI-assisted development tools in daily engineering work.
• A DevOps mindset that includes production ownership and on-call responsibilities.
• Ability to collaborate across time zones, work autonomously and learn from feedback.

Benefits and working arrangements

• Bonus, growth shares and an on-call allowance.
• Personalised training and home-office setup budgets.
• Professional development programmes and coaching partnerships.
• Family-friendly policies, flexible working arrangements and wellbeing support.
• Remote collaboration with teams in the United Kingdom, Europe and Africa during core GMT working hours.