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Build and run event-driven microservices in C#/.NET for M-KOPA Mobility's e-motorbike financing platform, owning services from design through production monitoring. Works fully remotely across UTC-1 to UTC+3.
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Join our expanding Mobility engineering team! We’re actively recruiting a Senior Backend Engineer as 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.
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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%. It’s your chance to build tech for a business that’s literally transforming lives across an entire continent 🌍
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🚀 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
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.
As an engineer, you’ll work as a collaborator. More senior members will coach and contribute, placing an emphasis on:
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.
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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.
Ready to build C# .NET solutions that put clean, affordable transport within reach of Every Day Earners, while advancing your career in modern, AI-powered backend engineering?
Apply now to join our mission of transforming lives across Africa through technology.
At M-KOPA, we empower our people to own their careers through diverse development programs, coaching partnerships, and on-the-job training. We support individual journeys with family-friendly policies, prioritize well-being, and embrace flexibility.
Join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com http://m-kopa.com.
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Recognized four times by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing companies (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026), named on CNBC's World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025 & 2026 and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 10 million customers, unlocking $2 billion in cumulative credit for the everyday earners across Africa, in addition to over 10,000 e-bikes financed in Kenya.
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M-KOPA is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to assembling a diverse, broadly trained staff. Women, minorities, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply.
M-KOPA explicitly prohibits the use of Forced or Child Labour and respects the rights of its employees to agree to terms and conditions of employment voluntarily, without coercion, and freely terminate their employment on appropriate notice. M-KOPA shall ensure that its Employees are of legal working age and shall comply with local laws for youth employment or student work, such as internships or apprenticeships.
M-KOPA does not collect/charge any money as a pre-employment or post-employment requirement. This means that we never ask for ‘recruitment fees’, ‘processing fees’, ‘interview fees’, or any other kind of money in exchange for offer letters or interviews at any time during the hiring process.
Applications for this position will be reviewed on a rolling basis. Shortlisting and interviews will take place at any stage during the recruitment process. We reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a suitable candidate is selected before the advertised closing date.
If your application is successful M-KOPA undertakes pre-employment background checks as part of its recruitment process, these include; criminal records, identification verification, academic qualifications, employment dates and employer references.