Senior Backend Engineer – Asset Sales
M-KOPA Solar · Nairobi
Job description
About the role
We are looking for a senior backend engineer to join our Asset Sales group and help scale a core component of M-KOPA’s FinTech platform. You will design, build and operate distributed, event‑driven microservices on Azure.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and maintain C#/.NET microservices hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service.
- Design for idempotency, retries, out‑of‑order events and robust failure handling.
- Own the full lifecycle of services—from concept through deployment, production monitoring and iteration.
- Participate in on‑call rotation, using incidents to improve system resilience.
Required profile
- 5+ years of backend development experience, strong grasp of C# and .NET.
- Hands‑on experience with event‑driven architectures (Azure Service Bus, Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.).
- Proven ability to work autonomously in a distributed team across time zones.
- Comfortable using AI tools (e.g., Claude) for design, code generation, testing and incident investigation.
Required skills
- C# / .NET
- Azure (Kubernetes, Service Bus, Application Insights)
- Microservices architecture
- Observability tools (Grafana, Azure Application Insights)
- AI‑assisted development tools
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