Role Overview
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.
Responsibilities
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
Requirements
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