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 powering M-KOPA Mobility's clean, affordable transport business • Own solutions end-to-end, from architecture decisions through production monitoring and decommissioning • Develop C#/.NET backend systems • Work with Azure cloud infrastructure and messaging technologies such as Service Bus • Design and develop microservice architectures • Use Kubernetes and Docker for containerisation and orchestration • Implement observability and monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana • Apply DevOps, infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, and continuous delivery practices • Collaborate with and contribute to engineering teams across Africa, Europe, and the UK • Support technology enabling financial inclusion and clean transport across Africa

🎯 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 working as part of a team which owns the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire software lifecycle • Willingness to embrace continuous delivery, testing, and observability as first-order engineering concerns • Successful applicants must undergo pre-employment background checks

🏖️ 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 • Professional development programs and coaching partnerships • Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements • Well-being support and career growth opportunities • Diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training • Family-friendly policies • Flexible working arrangements • Well-being support • Career growth opportunities