Job Description

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This is not just another engineering job. It's an opportunity to become a founding member of a high-growth FinTech venture that is already live, funded, and led by proven experts who have built and scaled successful businesses in Europe and Africa. You'll be joining at a pivotal stage, where the foundations are solid, the vision is clear, and the potential impact is immense.
You won't be a small cog in a big machine. You'll be a key voice, shaping both the technology and the culture of a business that's re-imagining how merchants optimize payments across global providers.
What You'll Be Building
The platform is already powering real customers and is architected on modern engineering principles:

• Cloud-native stack running on Google Cloud

• Infrastructure-as-Code and containerization

• A payment routing engine that intelligently selects the most efficient, lowest-cost path for each transaction

• Deep integrations with PSPs and card schemes, with a roadmap expanding into analytics, automation, and AI-driven optimization

Your mission: Scale this platform to support hundreds (and eventually thousands) of customers while maintaining speed, resilience, and innovation.
What You'll Do

• Own and evolve critical parts of the backend architecture, ensuring scalability and robustness

• Contribute across the stack - mostly backend, but with enough full-stack exposure to deploy and fix across the platform when needed

• Work closely with industry experts and directly with customers, translating their needs into elegant, resilient solutions

• Leverage payments data to experiment with ML/AI models that forecast, optimize, and deliver real-time insights

• Be part of a lean, senior engineering team where initiative, directness, and ownership are celebrated

• Mentor future hires and help shape a Cape Town engineering hub from the ground up

Requirements
What We're Looking For:

• Strong experience as a senior backend or full-stack engineer, ideally in Python, with exposure to modern practices (cloud-native, Docker, infra-as-code)

• Payments or PSP experience is highly valuable - especially if you've touched PCI, tokenization, or transaction routing at scale

• Curiosity and capability to work with data science/ML models, even if not as a specialist

• A communicator and collaborator who thrives in flat, high-trust, international teams

• Someone who takes initiative, spots problems, and solves them without waiting to be told

• A builder: not just of code, but of culture, best practices, and teams

Benefits
What's In It for You:

• Competitive package R110,000 - R125,000 p/m

• Opportunity to work in Amsterdam during onboarding to immerse in the culture and codebase

• Backing of experienced fintech founders and solid funding - no "idea stage" uncertainty

• A direct path to leadership in Cape Town as the team scales

• The satisfaction of building something that genuinely moves the needle in global payments

Skills Required