About the Role
Join our expanding Mobility engineering team! We're actively recruiting a Senior Backend Engineer at 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%.
Responsibilities
•Scale challenges: M-KOPA Mobility is growing 3x year-on-year, 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
•Build sophisticated event-driven microservices with real-world impact
•Own solutions end-to-end, from architecture decisions to production monitoring, using AI coding tools like Claude Code
Technical Environment
•Languages & frameworks: C#/.NET
•Cloud: Azure (experience across AWS or GCP welcome)
•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: 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
Requirements
•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
•Value the constraints that continuous delivery places upon engineering processes and embrace testing and observability as first-order concerns in development
•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
Conditions
•Permanent role - Benefits Package includes 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
•Professional development programs and coaching partnerships
•Family-friendly policies and flexible working arrangements
•Well-being support and career growth opportunities
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
Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one of Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026), named on CNBC's World's Top Fintech Companies 2025 & 2026 and TIME100 Most Influential Companies in the World 2023 and 2024, we've served over 10 million customers, unlocking $2 billion in cumulative credit for everyday earners across Africa, in addition to over 10,000 e-bikes financed in Kenya.
