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Senior Backend Engineer
2026-09-15T05:17:19+00:00
M-KOPA SOLAR
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FULL_TIME
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Manufacturing
Computer & IT, Science & Engineering
KES
MONTH
2026-09-29T17:00:00+00:00
8

Background

M-KOPA’s mission is to make high quality energy affordable to everyone. OUR GROWTH SO FAR... M-KOPA has connected more than 400,000 homes in Kenya,Tanzania and Uganda to solar power with over 550 new homes being added every day.

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. 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 will 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

What You Need

We expect you to be comfortable working as part of a team which owns the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire 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
bachelor degree
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Vacancy title:
Senior Backend Engineer

[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Manufacturing, Category: Computer & IT, Science & Engineering]

Jobs at:
M-KOPA SOLAR

Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, September 29 2026

Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi

Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, September 15 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

Background

M-KOPA’s mission is to make high quality energy affordable to everyone. OUR GROWTH SO FAR... M-KOPA has connected more than 400,000 homes in Kenya,Tanzania and Uganda to solar power with over 550 new homes being added every day.

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. 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 will 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

What You Need

We expect you to be comfortable working as part of a team which owns the entire software stack, including supporting infrastructure, throughout the entire 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

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 12

Level of Education: bachelor degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Computer/ IT jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: Tuesday, September 29 2026
Duty Station: Nairobi | Nairobi
Posted: 15-09-2026
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 15-09-2026
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 10-10-2076
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