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Overview

Sun King is a leading provider of off-grid solar energy solutions, designing, manufacturing, and distributing solar home systems and appliances for underserved communities. Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, the company operates across numerous countries in Africa and Asia to expand access to clean, reliable power. Through flexible pay-as-you-go financing models and extensive last-mile distribution networks, it empowers millions of households and small businesses to transition away from fossil fuels.

News

News Kenya Today 13 days ago
Sun King launches 30kW PowerHub solar inverters for Kenyan businesses and larger homes
Sun King has expanded its Kenyan solar inverter line to 30kW, targeting commercial, institutional and larger residential customers with pay-as-you-go financing.
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News TechCabal 1 month ago
Sun King takes on Kenya's growing smartphone financing market
Sun King, the off-grid solar startup, is now making smartphones in Kenya as it expands its PayGo model into Kenya's growing financed-device market.
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Blog 3 months ago
Sun King Commits to Bring Affordable Solar Energy to Madagascar
World's largest off-grid solar energy company unveils plans to deliver over 1.5 million electricity connections in Madagascar by 2030, at the launch of its first retail shop in the country Sun King, the world's largest off-grid solar energy company, today
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Blog 4 months ago
Sustainable Finance Drives Rapid Expansion of Off-Grid Solar in Africa
Sun King has published its 2025 Sustainable Financing Allocation and Impact Report, showing how innovative financing structures are accelerating access to energy and essential technologies across Africa. The report highlights a shift in how the company fu
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Award 5 months ago
Sun King Named One of TIME's 100 Most Influential Companies in the World
We are proud to announce that Time Magazine has named Sun King in its TIME100 Most Influential Companies and the TIME100 Companies Impact Award for Sustainability for 2026. This recognition places us amongst 100 organisations shaping the future of the wor
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Award 7 months ago
Sun King Named One of the World's Most Innovative Companies
The world's largest off-grid solar firm earns the No. 4 spot in the Social Good category on Fast Company's annual ranking. In 2017, Sun King was installing around 10,000 solar kits a month. Today, that number is 350,000 - and rising. On Tuesday, US busine
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Blog 7 months ago
Sun King Commits Up to $150 Million to Expand Energy Access in Ethiopia Through Solar
World's largest off-grid solar energy company signs MOU with Ethiopia Investment Commission to fast-track market entry and bring clean electricity to millions Sun King, the world's largest off-grid solar energy company, today announced plans to invest up
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Blog 8 months ago
Cooking, Cooling, and Connectivity: New Products and Scale Up
Sun King has expanded its offering to underserved consumers across Africa, combining the launch of its own smartphone and solar-powered fridge-freezer with the scale-up of its clean cooking technologies and services. Sun King is known for powering homes a
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Sun King over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
144
Postings analysed
102
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
SQL22%
Python18%
Java6%
ABAP3%
Frameworks & libraries
PyTorch3%
Cypress2%
FastAI2%
Playwright2%
Databases
Amazon Redshift5%
ElasticSearch2%
Redis2%
SAP BW2%
Cloud & platforms
Looker15%
AWS15%
Kubernetes7%
Grafana6%
AI & ML
LLM4%
EfficientNet1%
Whisper1%
YOLO1%
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Full Sun King tech stack 144 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
78/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
193
77 opened / 51 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
23 days
faster than 51% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
19% ▼
Administrative
16% ▲
Sales
10% ▼
Finance
9%
HR
8% ▼
Field & Service
7% ▲
Actively hiring for Administrative (+36 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
Added Outlook to stack Oct 2026
Added SLI/SLO/SLA to stack Sep 2026
Added Machine Learning to stack Sep 2026
Added Rest API to stack Sep 2026
Added WhatsApp to stack Sep 2026
Added Salesforce to stack Sep 2026
Added LLM to stack Sep 2026
Added Computer Vision to stack Sep 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack Sep 2026
Added CI/CD to stack Sep 2026
Added Assembly to stack Sep 2026
Added SOC 2 to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
15
Hiring now
10
Countries
12
Busiest office
Nairobi
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Nairobi Kenya
HQ
15 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 13% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Operations, HR, Data Science
P.O. Box 30739-00100, 2nd Floor, The Priory, Arwings Kodhek Road, Nairobi, Kenya
seen since Sep 2026 company site, job postings
Lagos Nigeria
Corporate office
59 open roles 62 posted in 90 days 500-1000 est. staff
hires for Administrative, Industrial Engineering, HR
seen since Sep 2026 company site, job postings
New Delhi India
Plant / site
21 open roles 22 posted in 90 days 67% engineering 62% remote 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, DevOps, Security
seen since Sep 2026 company site, job postings
Arusha Tanzania
Regional office
13 open roles 15 posted in 90 days 200-500 est. staff
hires for HR, Marketing, Management
seen since Sep 2026 company site, job postings
Addis Ababa Ethiopia
Support & operations
13 open roles 13 posted in 90 days 8% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Sales, Finance, HR
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Lusaka Zambia
10 open roles 10 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Marketing, Operations, Product
No. 5039 Dedan Kimathi Road, Kamwala, Lusaka, Zambia
seen since Sep 2026 company site, job postings
Nampula Mozambique
7 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Administrative, Sales, Finance
Rua dos Sem Medo, Nr. 252, Urbano Central, Nampula, Mozambique, 3101
seen since Sep 2026 company site, job postings
Antananarivo Madagascar
Corporate office
6 open roles 6 posted in 90 days 50-200 est. staff
hires for Administrative, Finance, HR
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Dongguan China
Support & operations
4 open roles 7 posted in 90 days 25% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Operations, Hardware, Product
seen since Sep 2026 job postings
Kampala Uganda
1 open roles 1 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
hires for Finance
Nakawa Business Park, Nakawa, Block A, 6th Floor, Kampala, Uganda
seen since Sep 2026 company site, job postings
Shenzhen China
9 Floor, Block 21, Langrui Building, Guangqian Industrial Park, Longzhu 3rd Road, Xili Town, Nanshan District, Shenzhen City, Guangdong, China
company site
Mumbai India
10th Floor, Nehru Centre, Dr Annie Besant Road, Worli, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400018, India
company site
Yangon Myanmar
No. 12-13, Crystal Tower, Kyun Taw Road, Kamaryut Township, Yangon, Myanmar
company site
Lilongwe Malawi
P.O. Box 30226, Lilongwe, Malawi
company site
Ikeja Nigeria
No. 19, Adekunle Fajuyi Way, Ikeja GRA, Lagos, Nigeria
company site

Jobs

≈ $8.5k – $20k per year (Estimated) • In office • Freelance • Lusaka
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≈ $14k – $37k per year (Estimated) • Remote (India) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • New Delhi
Python
Java
SQL
FastAPI
Django
Java
Spring Boot
Databases
Redis
RabbitMQ
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Copilot
Cursor
Claude Code
DevOps
Loki
Prometheus
AWS
Docker
Grafana
AWS Lambda
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Linux
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Remote (India) • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • New Delhi
Python
Java
SQL
JUnit
DevOps
Kibana
Prometheus
CI/CD
Grafana
Cybersecurity
OWASP
Management
Jira
Agile
Scrum
QA
TestRail
TestNG
Selenium
JMeter
Cypress
Playwright
Gatling
Postman
Rest-Assured
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Remote (India) • Full-Time • 1+ year exp • New Delhi
JavaScript
Java
SQL
Hibernate
Databases
MySQL
DevOps
Rest API
Git
SOAP
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≈ $6k – $14k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Lagos
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≈ $6k – $14k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Lagos
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≈ $6k – $14k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Lagos
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≈ $6k – $14k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Lagos
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≈ $9.5k – $20k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Togo
Wi-Fi
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≈ $9.5k – $27k per year (Estimated) • Remote (India) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • New Delhi
Python
SQL
ABAP
pySpark
ABAP
CDS Views
SAP BTP
Databases
Amazon Redshift
SAP BW
AI/ML
Spark
DevOps
AWS
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≈ $5k – $11k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 2+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Lagos
Wi-Fi
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≈ $16k – $31k per year (Estimated) • Remote (India) • Full-Time • 4+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • New Delhi
Python
SQL
PostgreSQL
Apache Kafka
Amazon Redshift
AI/ML
Unstructured.io
dbt
Great Expectations
Mobile
Firebase
DevOps
New Relic
Datadog
Prometheus
AWS
Grafana
Amazon S3
Analytics
A/B Testing
Looker
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