Senior Backend Engineer – Mobility

About the role

M-KOPA is a fast-growing FinTech company serving underbanked customers across Africa with connected asset financing, originally known for pay-as-you-go solar energy. Its Mobility business is growing three times year-on-year, with over 11,000 e-motorbikes financed, and is recruiting a Senior Backend Engineer in Lagos. The role builds sophisticated event-driven microservices, combining .NET development with a DevOps culture.

Key responsibilities

• Build event-driven microservices that help put clean transport within reach of riders
• Own solutions end-to-end, from architecture decisions to production monitoring
• Use AI coding tools such as Claude Code to speed up development
• Work as a collaborator, with senior members coaching and contributing

Required profile

• Comfortable working in a team that owns the entire software stack, from inception through production to decommissioning
• Values the constraints of continuous delivery and treats testing and observability as first-order concerns
• Experience working with AI coding tools, ideally Claude Code or similar

Required skills

• C# and .NET development
• Event-driven systems: Service Bus or similar (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Microservices architecture
• Azure, or AWS or GCP
• Kubernetes and Docker
• Prometheus and Grafana
• Testing and deployment expertise; DevOps mindset

What we offer

• Permanent role with bonus, growth shares and on-call allowance
• Fully remote work within UTC-1 to UTC+3 time zones
• Teams across the UK, Europe and Africa
• Professional development programs and coaching partnerships
• Family-friendly policies, flexible working and well-being support