Senior Backend Engineer - Asset Sales

<div style="text-align:left"><img style="max-width:100%" src="https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1d985516-2a99-43c0-b591-957f5adaceb9/5ac97b31-49cd-4012-8bb0-5caf15e33c69/B25.png" /></div><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Join our expanding engineering team!</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><div style="text-align:left"><img style="max-width:100%" src="https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1d985516-2a99-43c0-b591-957f5adaceb9/98cde4bc-fa0a-4874-a12e-0db70c8c4abf/image.png" /></div><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The Impact 💚</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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 🌍</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><div style="text-align:left"><img style="max-width:100%" src="https://app.ashbyhq.com/api/images/user-content/1d985516-2a99-43c0-b591-957f5adaceb9/98cde4bc-fa0a-4874-a12e-0db70c8c4abf/image.png" /></div><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>The Opportunity</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">🎯 <strong>Mission-driven engineering</strong>: Every service you build helps expand financial inclusion for under-banked populations</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">🏆 <strong>Global recognition</strong>: Join a company named by the Financial Times as one of Africa's fastest-growing companies for five consecutive years (2022–2026)</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">🚀 <strong>Scale challenges</strong>: Build backend systems serving millions across multiple African markets</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">🤖 <strong>AI-native from day one</strong>: We're actively embracing AI as part of the engineering craft, not bolting it on</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">🌍 <strong>Fully distributed</strong>: Work remotely with diverse teams across UK, Europe, and Africa</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">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.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Technical Environment 💻</strong></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Modern C# stack</strong>: Distributed C# and .NET microservices</p>&