KOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate technology company with a team of 1,000+ staff across East Africa, India, and the United Kingdom. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing markets. Our core lines of business are: KOKO Fuel, a clean, affordable, and renewable bioethanol household cooking solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure; and KOKO Climate, which retails the certified emissions reductions that are generated by transitioning households from deforestation-based charcoal and other dirty fuels to KOKO Fuel. In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by the Financial Times and the IFC, and, in 2022, KOKO received the Keeling Curve Prize for climate impact.
Your Role
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We are looking for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer to lead the development of firmware for KOKO’s IoT based hardware platforms that provide our customers with smart delivery of fuel and other goods through our unique last mile distribution network. As such you will play a key role in enabling KOKO’s long term success, including our expansion to new markets. In this position on the engineering team, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute to and add value across multiple KOKO's products, at different stages of the product life cycle, and be part of the wider engineering team in delivering best-in-class solutions
- Develop the embedded software that powers our network hardware and the tools that enable us to test, build, diagnose and repair them
- Collaborate cross-functionally with electronics engineers, software engineers, product managers, and others to integrate embedded software into products
- Support existing devices and manage firmware improvements in our installed networks
- Provide recommendations for continuous improvement in the functionality of our systemsWork alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices
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Deliver new features to production environments and support them in operation
What You Will Bring To KOKO
- Minimum relevant experience of 2 + years working as an Embedded Engineer
- Develop the embedded software that powers our network hardware and the tools that enable us to test, build, diagnose and repair them
- Collaborate cross-functionally with electronics engineers, software engineers, product managers, and others to integrate embedded software into products
- Support existing devices and manage firmware improvements in our installed networks
- Provide recommendations for continuous improvement in the functionality of our systems
- Work alongside other engineers on the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices
- Deliver new features to production environments and support them in operation
- Participate in building the engineering culture at KOKO
- Strong, proven experience coding (2+ years) and good design principles in C/C++ for embedded systems
- Solid and demonstrable understanding of Linux and programming for Linux (e.g. Raspberry Pi)
- Experience programming in both RTOS and bare metal environments
- Ability to developing and debug low level protocols (e.g. I2C, SPI) and higher level communication protocols (e.g. BLE, USB)
- Strong troubleshooting skills for investigating reported issues, debugging and fixing field problems
- Knowledge of IoT “edge” device development and strong understanding of network protocols (HTTP, MQTT) and interfaces (TCP/IP, TLS)
- Knowledge of Git and CI/CD pipelines
- A good grasp of electronics - ability to read schematics and data sheets
- Other skills:
- Experience in developing commercial products - proven experience developing for hardware at scale
- Strong analytical skills, working with engineering best practices to get the best results
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Team player, conscientious and with a strong collaborative ethos
What We Offer
- We believe that our people are critical for our ambitious growth plans in Kenya and beyond. We want to build an organization where people thrive, feel included, grow professionally, and enjoy having a high impact through their work
- Competitive salary plus a quarterly cash bonus
- Annual compensation reviews - we reward great work
- Discounted health insurance with no-cost financing for you and your dependents (in Kenya)
- 21 days of annual leave plus public holidays plus examination leave
- Ongoing investment in you and your skills, incl. full access to over 5,000 online courses
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The right equipment for the job - a choice of MacBook, Windows, or Linux laptop
Senior Embedded Software Engineer
@ Embedd 
What we're looking for
At embedd.it, we power hardware-software integration in embedded devices. We turn fragmented semiconductor chip data into configurable digital twins, then deterministically generate code, tests, and documentation – making integration faster, cheaper, and resilient to supply chain shocks.
We’re looking for a true legend – someone with abstract thinking and deep expertise in low-level software development. You’ll build vendor-agnostic tooling for MCU and peripheral integration to solve hardware-software integration once and for all. We work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generation, compilers, and machine learning. It’s your chance to help redefine how low-level development is done.
Responsibilities
- Drive the architecture of the driver structures and system layout
- Define scalable patterns for cross-architectural integration across bare-metal, Zephyr, Linux, and other environments
- Deconstruct complex SoC device trees and translate hardware descriptions into structured internal models for automated reasoning
- Partner with the ML team to shape data and annotation models for AI-driven data-extraction tooling
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in embedded systems development, including bare-metal and RTOS-based systems
- Proficiency in C/C++
- Familiarity with firmware configuration, SoC bring-up, and system-level debugging
- Hands-on experience with code generation tools, or low-level compiler/decompiler/emulator technologies
- Strong background in embedded toolchains: compilers, linkers, debuggers, and build systems
- Python or scripting for automation and tooling is a plus
- Experience with functional-safety standards is a plus
Why embedd.it?
- Dynamic, venture-backed team of engineers challenging the status quo 🚀
- Work at the intersection of embedded systems, code generators, compilers, and ML 🤖
- Unusual challenges requiring out-of-the-box abstract thinking 🧠
- Competitive compensation: cash + equity 💰
- Remote work possible 🌍
About Us
embedd.it is a UK-based startup reinventing embedded development. Our platform transforms unstructured semiconductor data into structured digital twins, enabling automatic generation of drivers, tests, and documentation. We're building a single, traceable source of truth to make integration fast, vendor-agnostic, and future-proof.
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