Backend Engineer - Mobility

M-KOPA; United States; À distance; USD 120 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Bonus

Growth Shares

On-Call allowance

Fully remote role (UTC-1 to UTC+3)

Résumé du poste

M-KOPA Mobility is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale event-driven microservices powering electric mobility across Africa. You’ll own services end-to-end within a DevOps culture, leveraging AI coding tools like Claude Code to accelerate development.

The role emphasizes C#/.NET, cloud platforms, containers, observability, and rapid delivery in a fast-growing organization committed to financial inclusion and environmental impact.

Qualifications

• Strong grasp of C#/.NET development.
• Experience with event-driven systems (Service Bus, Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Microservices architecture experience.
• Experience with Azure or other cloud providers (AWS/GCP).
• Familiarity with containerisation/orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker).
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana).
• Testing and deployment expertise; CI/CD practices.
• DevOps culture mindset.
• Experience with AI coding tools ( Claude Code or similar).

Responsabilités

• Scale challenges as M-KOPA Mobility grows 3x year-on-year with a fast-scaling business.
• Build services that enable clean transport access for riders and entrepreneurs.
• Contribute to a globally recognized company and environmental impact initiatives.
• Collaborate across teams to own the full software stack from inception to production.

Connaissances

C# .NET

Event-driven systems

Microservices

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Containers (Kubernetes/Docker)

Observability (Prometheus/Grafana)

Testing & deployment

DevOps culture

AI coding tools (Claude Code)

Outils

Service Bus

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Description du poste

Описание: Join our expanding Mobility engineering team! We’re actively recruiting a Senior Backend Engineer as M-KOPA Mobility, our fast-growing e-mobility business, which has a 3x year-on-year growth rate! Build the event-driven microservices that power clean, affordable transport for riders and entrepreneurs across Africa, with AI tools like Claude Code alongside you. Because Mobility is scaling quickly, an entrepreneurial spirit will serve you well: you’ll enjoy building in a fast-growing business and taking real ownership. The Impact – Africa’s transport sector is massive, underserved, and at an inflection point, and the shift to electric is accelerating, led by East Africa. Your code will directly power the technology behind Kenya’s leading e-mobility financing platform. M-KOPA has already served over 7 million customers and unlocked more than $2 billion in credit. In Mobility, 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 literally transforming lives across an entire continent

Задачи:

• Scale challenges: M-KOPA Mobility is growing 3x year-on-year as its own fast-scaling business, with over 11,000 e-motorbikes financed and demand climbing.
• 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 for 5 consecutive years (2022–2026).
• Environmental impact: Electric is simply better for drivers, cities and the planet. Our e-motorbikes cut air pollution by 90% versus petrol equivalents.

Требования:

We expect you to be comfortable working as part of a team that owns the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the software lifecycle, from inception through production to decommissioning, under a DevOps culture.

• 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

Условия:

• Permanent role
• Bonus
• Growth Shares
• On-Call allowance
• Fully remote role within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones
• Work with diverse teams across UK, Europe, and Africa
• Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements
• Well-being support and career growth opportunities

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

High quality output Observability and monitoring Automated testing in all environments, including production Infrastructure as code and DevOps practices AI-assisted development with tools like Claude Code

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

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.

M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice.

M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.

M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.