[Hiring] Senior Backend Engineer @M-KOPA

Role Description

Join our expanding engineering team! We're actively recruiting a Senior Backend Engineer to help scale M-KOPA Mobility, our fast-growing e-mobility business. This is an initial 12-month Fixed Term Contract, with the potential to extend or transition into a permanent role. Build the event-driven microservices that power clean, affordable transport for riders and entrepreneurs across Africa.

The Impact

• Africa's transport sector is massive, underserved, and at an inflection point.
• The transition to electric is accelerating, led by East Africa.
• Your code will directly power the technology behind Kenya's leading e-mobility financing platform.
• We've financed over 11,000 electric motorbikes, helping riders save more than $3 a day and cutting air pollution by 90%.
• It's your chance to build tech for a business that's transforming lives across an entire continent.

The Opportunity

• Mission-driven engineering: Every service you build helps put clean transport within reach of riders who'd otherwise be locked out of ownership.
• Global recognition: Join a company named by the Financial Times as one of Africa's fastest-growing companies for 5 consecutive years (2022–2026).
• Scale challenges: Build backend systems for a business growing at 3x year-on-year, with over 11,000 e-motorbikes financed and demand climbing.
• Real climate impact: Our e-motorbikes cut air pollution by 90% versus petrol equivalents.

What You'll Do

At M-KOPA, you'll build sophisticated event-driven microservices with real-world impact. Our engineering teams own their solutions end-to-end – from architecture decisions to production monitoring. Join us in combining cutting-edge .NET development with purpose-driven engineering that makes digital and financial inclusion possible across Africa.

Technical Environment

• Languages & frameworks: C#/.NET
• Cloud: We work in Azure, and welcome experience across AWS or GCP.
• Architecture: Event-driven systems and microservice development – we use Service Bus, and welcome experience with similar messaging technologies such as Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker.
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana.
• Engineering culture: DevOps, infrastructure as code, automated testing across all environments including production, continuous delivery.
• AI tooling: We use AI coding tools including Claude Code as part of our engineering workflow.

Our Engineering Approach

As an engineer, you will work as a collaborator. More senior members will coach and contribute, placing an emphasis on:

• High quality output
• Observability and monitoring
• Automated testing in all environments, including production
• Infrastructure as code and DevOps practices

What You Need

We expect you to be comfortable working as part of a team which owns the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire software lifecycle, from inception through production to decommissioning under a DevOps culture. You'll value the constraints that continuous delivery places upon engineering processes and embrace testing and observability as first-order concerns in development.

Required Experience

• 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

Location & 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

Our Mission

We create financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model, with M-KOPA Mobility extending that same model to clean transport. We strive to drive greater inclusion of women, youth, and low-income communities.

Our Impact

• Connected: 6 million smartphone customers, 2.5 million first-time smartphone users
• Prosperous: 70% of customers use their M-KOPA product for income generation, with 35,000+ livelihoods created for agents
• Green: 11,000+ e-motorbikes financed, growing 3x year-on-year, cutting air pollution by 90% and helping riders save more than $3 a day

Why M-KOPA?

At M-KOPA, 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.

Important Notice

M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.