Senior Backend Engineer - Mobility

About the job 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. 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 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