Principal Backend Engineer

We are looking for a Principal/very Senior level Backend Engineer (Snr III level and above) to join our Mobility team as we grow and expand our market impact and reach. We use the latest technologies and architectures to build fantastic solutions that help us finance progress in e-mobility, and clean energy adoption.

As a Senior engineer in Mobility, you will be working independently as an autonomous contributor reporting directly to the Head of Technology - Mobility while collaborating with the wider Software Engineering teams. Placing an emphasis on high quality output observability and monitoring as well as automated testing in all environments, including production, using infrastructure as code demonstrating the unique nature of some of our work.

About Us

We predominantly use C# written against the latest .NET stack, and favor microservices hosted on Azure using Kubernetes for all new implementations. We are constantly iterating towards a completely decoupled, event driven architecture across our entire software portfolio.

We have a mix of legacy services and greenfield microservices, so if you love the challenge of improving a legacy codebase while working on new projects then this might just be the role for you.

Expertise

Our expectations are that you would be comfortable working independently while owning the entire software stack, including the supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire software lifecycle from inception, through production and right the way to decommissioning under a DevOps culture.

If you also value e-mobility adoption and the constraints that continuous delivery places upon engineering processes and embrace testing and observability as first order concerns in the development of software, you probably have what it takes to join one of the teams and help shape our future.

We are looking for good grasp of / and experience with C#.NET, Event Driven Systems, microservices, testing and Deployment.

Why M-KOPA

We are a diverse and inclusive company that empowers 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.

Our roles are fully remote, within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3). Our engineers work remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa.

If the above is of interest to you, please apply and join us in shaping the future of M-KOPA as we grow together. Explore more at m-kopa.com.

Recognized thrice by the Financial Times as one Africa's fastest growing company (2022, 2023 and 2024) and by TIME100 Most influential companies in the world 2023 and 2024 , we've served over 5 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa.