Senior Backend Engineer: Remote AI‑Driven Microservices

M-KOPA; Johannesburg; Remote; ZAR 1,995,000 - 2,992,000; Full time

Job summary

M-KOPA Mobility is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale event‑driven microservices in a fast‑growing e‑mobility business across Africa. You’ll own services end‑to‑end, from design to production, using .NET and AI coding tools like Claude Code to accelerate delivery.

Join a mission‑driven team operating fully remotely within UTC −1 to UTC +3, collaborating with colleagues across UK, Europe, and Africa.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Build sophisticated event‑driven microservices with real‑world impact.
• Own solutions end‑to‑end from architecture decisions to production monitoring.
• Collaborate in a global remote team and move fast with AI coding tools.
• Contribute to robust tests, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Improve observability, reliability, and performance of services.

Skills

C#/.NET development

Event-driven architecture

Microservices

DevOps culture

AI tooling (Claude Code)

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Service Bus

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

Claude Code

Job description

M-KOPA Mobility is hiring a Senior Backend Engineer to build and scale event‑driven microservices in a fast‑growing e‑mobility business across Africa. You’ll own services end‑to‑end, from design to production, using .NET and AI coding tools like Claude Code to accelerate delivery.

Join a mission‑driven team operating fully remotely within UTC −1 to UTC +3, collaborating with colleagues across UK, Europe, and Africa.