Senior Backend Engineer II & III (.NET) (Remote - Africa)

Collaboration takes place during core GMT working hours with a distributed team across the UK, Europe and Africa. A fast-growing fintech company that provides asset financing to everyday earners across Africa is hiring two senior backend engineers at levels II and III. You will join the asset sales group, which is responsible for a core part of the company's platform. The team values AI-assisted engineering, ownership of services from design through production, and a strong focus on measurable outcomes over hours online.

What you'll do

• Build and operate distributed microservices in C# and .NET on Azure, running on Kubernetes.
• Design event-driven services that handle retries, idempotency, out-of-order events and failure modes.
• Own features end to end, including implementation, deployment, production monitoring and iteration.
• Add and maintain automated tests, SLOs, alerts and deployment safeguards for the services you ship.
• Share in on-call rotation and use incidents to make the platform more resilient.
• Use AI tools in daily workflows for design, code review, test writing and incident investigation.

What you need

• Strong working knowledge of C# and .NET development.
• Experience building event-driven systems; Azure Service Bus is used, and experience with comparable messaging tools such as Kafka or RabbitMQ is welcome.
• Experience with microservices architecture, ideally on Azure and Kubernetes.
• Experience using observability tools such as Grafana or Azure Application Insights to understand production behaviour.
• Comfort using AI tools as part of a regular engineering workflow, and a DevOps mindset including on-call ownership.
• Proven ability to work effectively in distributed teams across time zones, with openness to feedback and continuous learning.

Applicants must be based in: Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, South Africa, Egypt, Rwanda, Uganda.

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