Senior Backend Engineer

M-Kopa

23d • Remote

About The Position

Join our expanding engineering team as a Senior Backend Engineer to help scale M-KOPA Mobility, our rapidly growing e-mobility business. This is an initial 12-month Fixed Term Contract, with the potential for extension or transition to a permanent role. You will build the event-driven microservices that provide clean, affordable transport for riders and entrepreneurs across Africa. Your code will directly power the technology behind Kenya's leading e-mobility financing platform, which has already financed over 11,000 electric motorbikes, helping riders save more than $3 a day and cutting air pollution by 90%. This is an opportunity to build tech for a business that is transforming lives across an entire continent.

Requirements

• Comfortable working as part of a team that owns the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire software lifecycle, from inception through production to decommissioning under a DevOps culture.
• Value the constraints that continuous delivery places upon engineering processes.
• Embrace testing and observability as first-order concerns in development.
• Strong grasp of C# .NET development.
• Experience with event-driven systems – Service Bus or similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Microservices architecture experience.
• Experience with Azure, or other major cloud providers such as AWS or GCP.
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Testing and deployment expertise.
• DevOps culture mindset.
• Experience working with AI coding tools, ideally Claude Code or similar.

Nice To Haves

• Experience across AWS or GCP.
• Experience with similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.

Responsibilities

• Build sophisticated event-driven microservices with real-world impact.
• Own solutions end-to-end, from architecture decisions to production monitoring.
• Combine cutting-edge .NET development with purpose-driven engineering.
• Work as a collaborator, with senior members coaching and contributing.
• Embrace testing and observability as first-order concerns in development.
• Support infrastructure throughout the entire software lifecycle, from inception through production to decommissioning under a DevOps culture.
• Work with AI coding tools, ideally Claude Code or similar.

Benefits

• Initial 12-month Fixed Term Contract, with potential to extend or transition into a permanent role.
• Fully remote role within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones.
• Work with diverse teams across UK, Europe, and Africa.
• Professional development programs and coaching partnerships.
• Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements.
• Well-being support and career growth opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed