Senior Backend Engineer I Lisboa

Overview

Join to apply for the Senior Backend Engineer I role at M-KOPA.

We’re continuing to hire multiple Senior Backend Engineers (I, II & III) as we scale our growing Fin
Tech team at M-KOPA. Build sophisticated
- driven microservices that unlock financial inclusion across Africa.

What You’ll Do

At M-KOPA, you’ll build sophisticated
- driven microservices with
- world impact. Our engineering teams own their solutions
-
- end – from architecture decisions to production monitoring. You’ll combine
- edge. NET development with
- 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 evolving toward a completely decoupled,
  - driven architecture
• Mixed Environment: We have both legacy services and greenfield microservices

Your On-boarding

When you join, you’ll participate in our Internal Engineering Bootcamp — an immersive onboarding experience with our staff engineering group. You’ll
- dive into our
- driven architecture, explore engineering practices, and understand how we approach building systems at scale. We invest in getting you up to speed properly from day one.

Our Engineering Approach

We’re looking for
- 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 Dev
  Ops practices
• Knowledge sharing and collaborative
  - solving

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 Dev
Ops culture. You’ll value the constraints that continuous delivery places upon engineering processes and embrace testing and observability as
- order concerns in development.

Required Experience:

• Strong grasp of C#. NET development
• Experience with Event-Driven Systems
• Microservices architecture experience
• Testing and deployment expertise
• Dev
  Ops culture mindset
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively in distributed teams
• Continuous learning mindset and openness to feedback

Location & Benefits

• Fully remote role within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones
• Work with diverse teams distributed across UK, Europe, and Africa
• Personalised training budget to support your development
• Home office setup budget
• Internal Engineering Bootcamp: immersive onboarding into our
  - driven architecture
• Professional development programs and coaching partnerships
• Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements
• Well-being support and career growth opportunities

Our Mission & Impact

We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible,
- centric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and
- income communities.

Our technology has created measurable change:

• 2. 5 million
  - time mobile internet users connected
• 70% of customers use M-KOPA products for income generation, with 35, 000 livelihoods created for agents
• 2. 1 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided through clean energy products and
  - mobility

Ready to build C#. NET solutions that create
- world financial inclusion?

Why M-KOPA?

We empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and
-
- job training. We support individual journeys with
- friendly policies, prioritize
- being, and embrace flexibility. Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together.

Explore more at m-kopa.com.

Note: Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews may occur at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date.