Senior Backend Engineer - Mobility

M-Kopa

11d•Remote

About The Position

M-KOPA is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for its fast-growing Mobility business. The role builds event-driven microservices that support clean, affordable transport and the technology behind Kenya’s e-mobility financing platform. Engineers own solutions end-to-end, from architecture decisions through production monitoring and eventual decommissioning, working within a DevOps culture and using AI coding tools such as Claude Code. The engineering approach emphasizes high-quality output, observability, automated testing across environments, infrastructure as code, and continuous delivery. The position is fully remote within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones, collaborating with teams across the UK, Europe, and Africa. It is a permanent role with a benefits package that includes bonus, growth shares, and an on-call allowance. M-KOPA also highlights professional development programs, coaching partnerships, family-friendly policies, flexible working arrangements, well-being support, and career growth opportunities.

Requirements

Strong grasp of C# .NET development.
Experience with event-driven systems, including Service Bus or similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
Experience with microservices architecture.
Experience with Azure or another major cloud provider such as AWS or GCP.
Familiarity with containerization and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes and Docker.
Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
Testing and deployment expertise.
A DevOps culture mindset, including comfort owning the software stack throughout its lifecycle.
Value continuous delivery constraints and treat testing and observability as first-order concerns.
Experience working with AI coding tools, ideally Claude Code or similar.

Nice To Haves

Experience with cloud providers other than Azure, such as AWS or GCP.
Experience with messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
Experience using Claude Code or similar AI coding tools.

Responsibilities

Build sophisticated event-driven microservices using C#/.NET.
Own software solutions throughout the lifecycle, from inception and architecture through production support and decommissioning.
Support the infrastructure and full software stack within a DevOps culture.
Apply continuous delivery practices, automated testing, and observability throughout development and production.
Collaborate with engineering teammates and contribute to high-quality, monitored solutions.
Use AI coding tools such as Claude Code as part of the engineering workflow.