Senior Backend Engineer - Asset Sales
2 нед. назад
ВеликобританияSeniorRemote
c#netazuremicroservicesevent-driven architecture
Senior Backend Engineer building distributed, event-driven microservices for a FinTech platform expanding financial inclusion in Africa.
О компании
- We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities.
- At , we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.
- Join us in shaping the future of as we grow together. Explore more at .com .
- Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026), named on CNBC's World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025 & 2026 and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 10 million customers, unlocking $2 billion in cumulative credit for the everyday earners across Africa, in addition to over 10,000 e-bikes financed in Kenya.
Обязанности
- 🎯 Mission-driven engineering : Every service you build helps expand financial inclusion for under-banked populations
- 🏆 Global recognition : Join a company named by the Financial Times as one of Africa's fastest-growing companies for five consecutive years (2022–2026)
- 🚀 Scale challenges : Build backend systems serving millions across multiple African markets
- 🤖 AI-native from day one : We're actively embracing AI as part of the engineering craft, not bolting it on
- 🌍 Fully distributed : Work remotely with diverse teams across UK, Europe, and Africa
- At , 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.
Условия
- Fully remote role, collaborating during core GMT working hours
- Work with diverse teams distributed across UK, Europe, and Africa
- Personalised training budget to support your development
- Home office setup budget
- Professional development programs and coaching partnerships
- Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements
- Well-being support and career growth opportunities
Другое
- We're hiring a permanent Senior Backend Engineer to join our Asset Sales group as we scale one of the most important parts of 's FinTech platform. Build distributed, event-driven microservices and help shape what AI-native engineering looks like at .
- 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 🌍
- Modern C# stack : Distributed C# and .NET microservices
- Cloud & orchestration : Hosted on Azure using Kubernetes
- Architecture : Event-driven, supporting products used at significant scale
- Observability : Grafana, Azure Application Insights, logs, traces, and metrics
- AI tooling : Claude and other AI tools used throughout the engineering workflow — design exploration, code generation and review, test writing, incident investigation, and technical communication
- AI-native engineering : We want engineers who tinker — experimenting with new tools, agents, and workflows, and sharing what works
- Guardrails as we accelerate : Automated tests, SLOs, alerting, observability, and deployment safeguards around everything we ship
- Own it beyond the pull request : Design for idempotency, retries, out-of-order events, and failure modes, and know how your services behave in production
- The Campfire Rule : Leave the systems you touch a little better than you found them
- On-call as feedback, not heroics : Engineers who build our systems also help operate them, using incidents to make the platform more resilient
- We're looking for a senior engineer who's curious, autonomous, and highly trusted. You're comfortable owning the entire software stack — including supporting infrastructure — throughout its lifecycle, and you see production data, not just deployment, as the real measure of "done."
- Strong grasp of C# and .NET development
- Experience with event-driven systems - We use Azure Service Bus, but would love to hear from you if you have experience with similar messaging technology (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.)
- Microservices architecture experience, ideally on Azure and Kubernetes
- Experience using observability tooling (e.g. Grafana, Application Insights) to understand production behaviour
- Comfort using AI tools as part of a daily engineering workflow (design, code review, testing, incident investigation)
- DevOps culture mindset, including on-call/production ownership
- Proven ability to collaborate effectively in distributed teams across time zones
- Continuous learning mindset and openness to feedback
- Our technology has created measurable change:
- Connected 📱 : 2.5 million first-time smartphone users connected
- Prosperous 💰 : 70% of customers use products for income generation, with 35,000 livelihoods created for agents
- Green 🌱 : 2.155 million tonnes of CO₂ avoided since 2010 through clean energy, refurbished devices, and e-mobility
- Ready to build C#/.NET systems — with AI as part of your craft — that create real-world financial inclusion? Apply Now!