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Senior Backend Engineer – Mobility

M-KOPA·Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria, nigeria·Full Time·Remote
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M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go “PayGo’” solar energy for off grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives.

We Are Are Recruiting To Fill The Position Below

Job Title: Senior Backend Engineer – Mobility

Location: Lagos

The Opportunity

  • 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. As it grows, so do the opportunities to expand your scope, your impact and your career
  • 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.

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, using AI coding tools like Claude Code to move faster along the way.
  • 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’ll 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
    • AI-assisted development with tools like Claude Code
What You Need

  • 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.
  • 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.

Location & Benefits

  • Permanent role – Benefits Package include 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.

Application Closing Date

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  • At a glance

    Company

    M-KOPA

    Location

    Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria, nigeria

    Employment

    Full Time

    Experience

    senior

    Valid until

    Not specified

    Created

    October 28, 2026