Senior Backend Engineer – Mobility

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🌐 Kenya, South Africa, +5 more countries – Remote

🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote 🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote 🇳🇬 Nigeria – Remote 🇬🇭 Ghana – Remote 🇺🇬 Uganda – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote 🇪🇬 Egypt – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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M-KOPA

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💳 Fintech

Healthcare • Logistics • Fintech

M-KOPA is a fintech platform founded in 2011 that provides digital financial services to underbanked consumers across Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, and Ghana. The company leverages data and IoT technology to enable digital micropayments, facilitating access to essential products and services such as smartphones, electric motorcycles, solar power systems, digital loans, and health insurance. With over $1 billion in credit extended to 3 million customers, M-KOPA is dedicated to making financing accessible for everyday essentials.

📋 Description

• Build sophisticated event-driven microservices that power clean, affordable transport • Own solutions end-to-end, from architecture decisions to production monitoring • Develop cutting-edge .NET solutions supporting digital and financial inclusion across Africa • Collaborate as part of an engineering team that owns the full software stack • Apply automated testing across all environments, including production • Implement observability and monitoring practices • Use infrastructure as code and DevOps practices • Use AI coding tools such as Claude Code to accelerate development • Support software throughout its lifecycle, from inception through production to decommissioning • Contribute to technology behind Kenya’s e-mobility financing platform

🎯 Requirements

• 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 • Comfortable owning the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the software lifecycle • Commitment to testing, observability, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, and DevOps practices

🏖️ Benefits

• Bonus • Growth Shares • On-Call allowance • Fully remote work within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones • Professional development programs and coaching partnerships • Family-friendly policies • Flexible working arrangements • Well-being support • Career growth opportunities • On-the-job training