Senior Android Engineer – Financial Inclusion at Scale needed at M-KOPA

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