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.
- Join our expanding engineering team! We're actively recruiting multiple Senior Android Engineers as we continue to scale our growing FinTech division at M-KOPA. Build sophisticated mobile applications that unlock financial inclusion across Africa.
- The Impact: Your code will directly power mobile technology for millions of people across Africa who've been excluded from traditional financial services. We've already helped over 7 million customers access over $2+ billion in credit, with 2.5 million connecting to the internet for the first time through our smartphones. It's your chance to be part of something that's literally transforming lives across an entire continent
The Opportunity
- Mission-driven engineering: Every feature you build helps expand financial inclusion for underbanked populations
- Global recognition: Join a company named by TIME 100 as one of the world's most influential and by the Financial Times as Africa's fastest-growing for 4 consecutive years (2022-2025)
- Scale challenges: Build Android applications serving millions across multiple African markets. This role presents exciting technical challenges as you develop high-performance, offline-first applications optimised for low-end devices in challenging network environments.
- Environmental impact: We're carbon-negative, having displaced over 2.1 million tonnes of emissions
- Link to Impact report: M-KOPA Impact Report 2025: Pathways to progress
What You'll Do
- At M-KOPA, you'll build sophisticated Android applications 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 Android development with purpose-driven engineering that makes digital and financial inclusion possible across Africa.
Technical Environment
- Modern Android Stack: We use predominantly Kotlin with Jetpack Compose for our UI
- Architecture & Patterns: Clean Architecture principles with unidirectional data flow (MVI)
- Cloud Integration: Our microservices are hosted on Azure using Kubernetes
- Release Cycle: Bi-weekly Android releases with multiple backend deployments daily
- DevOps Culture: Azure DevOps for CI/CD with trunk-based development
- Our Engineering Approach
- We work in self-organised, agile teams that:
- Focus on raising coding standards and improving application quality
- Embrace testing and observability as first-order concerns
- Deep dive user journeys using data to implement focused updates
- Own the entire software stack throughout the lifecycle under a DevOps culture
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:
- Solid senior-level expertise with Kotlin and Android app development
- Deep knowledge of Clean Architecture and Dependency Injection
- Experience with unidirectional data flow (MVI) and Jetpack Compose
- Trunk-based development and Feature Toggles expertise
- Strong testing practices and DevOps mindset
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