Lumepay Pty Ltd

Workshop 17 The Watershed 17 Dock Road

Waterfront, Cape Town

Full Stack Engineer – Fintech / Payments Location: Cape Town Department: Engineering Reports To: CTO Job Type: Full-time

About Us We are a high-growth fintech company building the next generation of payment infrastructure across Africa. Our mission is to make money movement seamless, inclusive, and scalable across borders. We operate at the intersection of financial innovation and real-world impact, empowering businesses and consumers with tools to thrive in a rapidly digitizing economy.

Key Responsibilities

Product Development & Architecture

● Contribute to the design and development of scalable web/app applications for payments and settlements.

● Build and maintain APIs that support core business functions such as payment processing, KYC/AML, and partner integrations.

● Participate in code reviews and help improve performance, security, and reliability across the stack.

Integrations

● Support integrations with payment gateways, banks, and third-party services (e.g., compliance and blockchain partners).

● Assist in building internal tools for operations, reconciliation, and reporting

Security & Compliance

● Follow secure coding practices and ensure adherence to internal security guidelines.

● Collaborate with compliance teams to implement KYC, AML, and transaction monitoring features.

● Learn and apply best practices related to data privacy and platform security.

Collaboration & Growth

● Work closely with senior engineers, product managers, and operations teams to deliver new features and enhancements.

● Take initiative in learning new technologies and improving existing systems.

● Contribute to a culture of quality and collaboration within the engineering team.

Skills & Experience

Must-Have

● Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.

● 1-4 years’ experience as a Full Stack Engineer (preferably in fintech or payments). ● Solid backend development experience using Node.js and/or TypeScript (experience with Python or

Java a plus).

● Frontend experience with modern frameworks such as React.js or Vue.js.

● Familiarity with both relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases.

● API development experience (REST, GraphQL).

● Basic understanding of security best practices, data handling, and encryption concepts.

● Experience with version control (Git) and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerization (Docker).

● Enthusiasm for learning about blockchain, Web3 APIs, and emerging payment technologies.

Nice-to-Have

● Exposure to the African payments ecosystem, mobile money, or local payment APIs.

● Knowledge of blockchain fundamentals and working with Web3 APIs or SDKs.

● Interest or experience in FX, liquidity, or remittance platforms.

● Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.

● Understanding of Stablecoin or blockchain-based settlement flows.

● Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

What We Offer ● Competitive salary + Bonus structure

● Opportunity to shape the future of cross-border payments in Africa.

● Work with an experienced, diverse team across fintech, payments, and blockchain.

Lumepay Pty Ltd

Workshop 17 The Watershed 17 Dock Road

Waterfront, Cape Town

Financial Accountant Location: Cape Town Department: Finance Reports To: CFO Job Type: Full-time

About Us We are a high-growth fintech company building the next generation of payment infrastructure across Africa. Our mission is to make money movement seamless, inclusive, and scalable across borders. We operate at the intersection of financial innovation and real-world impact, empowering businesses and consumers with tools to thrive in a rapidly digitizing economy.

Role Overview We are looking for a Financial Accountant to join our growing team. The ideal candidate will bring technical accounting expertise, a solid understanding of financial operations within the financial services sector, and the ability to manage reconciliations across multiple entities and currencies.

This role offers an opportunity to work at the intersection of finance, technology, and cross-border payments, supporting strategic financial decisions and ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial data in a fast-moving environment.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting & Control

● Prepare accurate and timely monthly management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, and variance analyses.

● Maintain and reconcile general ledger accounts across all cost centres, ensuring data integrity.

● Support the month-end and year-end close processes, including journal entries, accruals, and prepayments.

● Assist in the consolidation and reporting for group entities (local and international).

Accounts Payable & Receivable

● Oversee supplier payments, expense management, and client billing cycles. ● Review and approve invoices, ensuring compliance with internal controls and tax regulations.

● Manage intercompany recharges and maintain invoice and recharge schedules.

Cash, Banking & Treasury

● Perform bank reconciliations across multiple currencies and accounts. ● Support cash flow forecasting, working capital management, and FX exposure tracking. ● Collaborate with trading and operations teams to reconcile settlement flows and payment

gateways.

Audit, Compliance & Tax

● Prepare audit schedules and liaise with external auditors. ● Ensure compliance with IFRS, tax regulations, and internal governance policies. ● Maintain accurate and up-to-date documentation to support financial audits and regulatory

reviews.

Process Improvement & Systems

● Identify opportunities to streamline and automate accounting and reporting processes. ● Support system upgrades, integrations, and testing of financial or ERP systems. ● Maintain and update Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for financial processes.

Education & Experience

● Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field (Honours or Professional Qualification advantageous).

● 3–5 years of experience in financial accounting, preferably within fintech, payments, banking, or financial services.

● Experience with multi-entity and multi-currency accounting. ● Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and exposure to ERP/accounting systems (Xero

preferred) ● Working knowledge of IFRS and local tax regulations. ● Experience supporting external audits and regulatory compliance processes.

Personal Attributes & Skills

● High attention to detail with strong analytical and problem-solving ability. ● Excellent communication skills, with the ability to interact confidently across departments. ● Self-driven, accountable, and comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment. ● Strong organizational and time management skills. ● Collaborative mindset with a hands-on, proactive approach.

Preferred Skills (Nice to have)

● Experience in fintech, cross-border payments, or FX/crypto accounting. ● Foreign entity consolidation.

● Familiarity with financial reporting and automation tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, or Looker).

What We Offer

● Competitive salary + Bonus structure ● Opportunity to shape the future of cross-border payments in Africa.

Work with an experienced, diverse team across fintech, payments, and blockchain.

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Job Description: Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Role:

Senior Cyber Security Analyst

Company: Opliciti South Africa (Pty) Ltd

Geographical responsibility:

Global

Reports to: Matrix management reporting to: Managing Director RSA, Head of Security Operations UK

Job Purpose The Senior Security Analyst is a core member of the SOC, responsible for detecting, investigating, and mitigating cyber threats across complex client environments. Utilising modern tools and expertise, the analyst conducts advanced investigations, enhances detection capabilities, and promotes ongoing improvements in incident response and threat hunting. This role combines deep technical expertise with strategic oversight—enhancing monitoring, automation, and defence capabilities while mentoring junior analysts. The analyst also stays informed of emerging threats and vulnerabilities, ensuring clients in critical sectors remain protected against evolving attack vectors.

Job Interactions Internally: Interacts with the professional services teams, security operations teams and company Directors. Externally: Engages with clients for escalations, investigations and service reviews, and supports business development through technical insights, pre- sales consultations, and solution alignment.

Job Responsibilities

Your responsibilities as a Senior Cyber Security Analyst include, but are not limited to:

• Monitor client environments/security systems as part of a dedicated security team or a shared services security team for alerts/incidents, analyse logs and traffic patterns, providing appropriate response in accordance with processes agreed with in contractual terms i.e. Service Description.

• Provide support where required, to multiple customer environments concurrently; drive customer satisfaction and continuously seek to improve operational performance.

• Work with internal and external client stakeholders to conduct in-depth investigations on security events, raise incidents, contain and provide remediation and/or recommendations supporting the incident management process.

• Act as an escalation point for any incidents and investigations that may be required.

• Develop and understanding of client environment and requirements, build relationships with relevant stakeholders to provide effective communication through support channels.

• Understand and apply use-cases and develop playbooks enabling efficiency, improvements.

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• Develop and implement automation, notification, response and remediation processes.

• Lead threat hunting investigations and apply any new feeds and sources relevant to detecting threats to the client.

• Contribute to, and help in development of, security Dashboards/Reporting and processes.

• Stay up to date and regularly educate team on the changing cyber security landscape and share information.

• Support the ongoing maintenance of the company’s Information Security Management System (ISMS)

• Be able to optimise workstreams beyond BAU and assigned tasks, such as identifying enhancements and opportunities for continuous improvement.

Skills and Experience Essential

• To have a passion for security and rise to challenges.

• Possess excellent communication, interpersonal and good leadership skills.

• Good time management and ability to solve problems and manage different workloads.

• Sufficient networking knowledge with the ability to understand network traffic, to be able to explain activity and advise next steps.

• Minimum 4 years of experience working as a Cyber Security Analyst or equivalent.

• Experience working in a SOC environment with tools as SIEM, SOAR, EDR etc.

• Experience with Azure, Microsoft Sentinel and the Microsoft Security stack.

• Proficiency in Kusto Query Language (KQL) and comfortable developing queries for detection and reporting.

• Experienced with development of playbooks and applied automation for efficient workflows.

• Comprehensive understanding of common malware types along with detection and prevention methods.

• Understanding of Cloud computing/architecture and security.

• Good awareness and understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK Framework.

• Solid understanding of the different stages of the Cyber-Kill-Chain.

• Be able to interact comfortably with stakeholders across multiple organisations, building strong relationships across all business units at all levels.

Desirable

• Prior experience in an MSSP delivering security services to multiple clients.

• Experience with multiple SIEM Technologies (Splunk, MS Sentinel, LogRhythm, ELK, QRadar, Arcsight, Wazuh etc.)

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and GCP.

• Experience with high-profile enterprise clients e.g. – Oil & Gas, Manufacturing, Supply Chain etc.

• Experience with using Microsoft Logic Apps/Power Automate or third-party orchestration tools.

• Experience with PowerBI and developing visualisations via custom queries.

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Qualifications At least one or more of the following: Industry standard certifications such as Microsoft, CompTIA, SANS, CREST, GIAC, ISC2 and or any other cyber security relation certifications.

Lumepay Pty Ltd

Workshop 17 The Watershed 17 Dock Road

Waterfront, Cape Town

Legal Associate Location: Cape Town Department: Legal Reports To: CLCO Job Type: Full-time Level: Intermediate

About Us We are a high-growth fintech company building the next generation of payment infrastructure across Africa. Our mission is to make money movement seamless, inclusive, and scalable across borders. We operate at the intersection of financial innovation and real-world impact, empowering businesses and consumers with tools to thrive in a rapidly digitising economy.

Role Overview

The Legal Associate will support the company’s legal and regulatory functions across multiple

jurisdictions, including payments, crypto assets, and financial services. The role involves drafting and

negotiating contracts, assisting with new licence applications, managing regulatory and banking

relationships, and maintaining corporate governance and entity compliance. This is an intermediate-level

position that offers exposure to diverse legal environments and evolving fintech regulation across Africa

and internationally.

Key Responsibilities

● Licensing & Regulatory Applications: Support new licence applications across jurisdictions,

liaising with regulators and external counsel where necessary. Track and maintain ongoing

licence renewals and regulatory obligations.

● Contract Drafting & Negotiation: Draft, review, and negotiate commercial, vendor, and

technology agreements critical to business operations. Maintain contract templates and ensure

alignment with company standards.

● Corporate & Secretarial Governance: Support the formation and maintenance of corporate

entities, including statutory filings, annual returns, and company registers. Prepare board

resolutions and other company secretarial documents.

● Banking & Counterparty Relationships: Support onboarding documentation for banking,

payment, and trading counterparties. Assist in managing ongoing legal relationships with

payment service providers and liquidity partners.

● Regulatory Research & Engagement: Conduct legal research into new or evolving financial,

crypto, and payments regulations. Support engagement with regulators and financial partners

on compliance and policy matters..

● General Legal Support: Provide day-to-day support to the senior legal function on operational,

regulatory, and strategic projects. Assist in preparing legal documents, filings, and

correspondence as needed.

Skills & Experience

● LLB degree.

● Admitted attorney.

● Minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience (PQE) gained in a law firm or in-house

legal department.

● PQE must be in financial services (FX/ TOC, crypto assets); banking & payments (TPPP/ PSP and cross-border); contract & commercial.

● Ability to work independently in a structured and unstructured environment.

● Meticulous attention to detail and organisational abilities.

● Excellent written and oral communication skills.

● Comfortable with performing administrative tasks.

● Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Lumepay Pty Ltd

Workshop 17 The Watershed 17 Dock Road

Waterfront, Cape Town

Compliance Officer (AML) Location: Cape Town Department: Legal & Compliance Reports To: CLCO Job Type: Full-time Level: Intermediate

About Us We are a high-growth fintech company building the next generation of payment infrastructure across Africa. Our mission is to make money movement seamless, inclusive, and scalable across borders. We operate at the intersection of financial innovation and real-world impact, empowering businesses and consumers with tools to thrive in a rapidly digitising economy.

Role Overview

The Compliance Officer will assist in implementing and maintaining the company’s compliance framework across all business lines, including financial services, crypto asset trading, and

payments. The role involves conducting due diligence, transaction monitoring, and investigations

while supporting broader regulatory, reporting, and policy initiatives. This is an intermediate-level

position offering exposure to multiple regulated environments.

Key Responsibilities

1. Compliance Operations

● Support the company’s compliance framework, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and industry standards across all business areas.

● Assist in implementing, maintaining, and updating compliance policies and procedures to align with evolving regulatory obligations.

● Maintain accurate and up-to-date compliance records and documentation.

2. KYC & Due Diligence

● Conduct Know-Your-Customer (KYC) checks on new clients and perform ongoing due diligence reviews on existing clients and counterparties.

● Review and verify KYC documentation during the onboarding process to ensure all required checks are completed prior to account activation.

● Support enhanced due diligence processes for high-risk clients or complex structures.

3. Screening & Monitoring

● Review and resolve customer screening alerts, including politically exposed persons (PEPs), sanctions, and adverse media matches.

● Monitor and analyse transactions for potential suspicious or unusual activity.

● Conduct investigations and assist in preparing and submitting Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) or Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).

4. Investigations & Reporting

● Assist in investigating flagged accounts and responding to requests or inquiries from banks,

counterparties, and regulatory authorities.

● Collaborate with fraud operations, banking, and payment partners to mitigate financial crime

risks.

● Contribute to the preparation of internal and external compliance reports.

5. Regulatory Awareness & Collaboration

● Stay current with changes in AML, KYC, and financial services and payments regulations across relevant jurisdictions.

● Work closely with senior compliance and legal functions to ensure company-wide understanding and application of compliance obligations.

● Support the maintenance of relationships with payment, banking, and regulatory partners.

Skills & Experience

● Bachelor’s degree or tertiary qualification in Law.

● At least 3 years PQE exposed to compliance in financial services, banking and payments environments.

● Experience or exposure to cryptocurrency and digital asset regulation.

● Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills.

● Excellent attention to detail and a high standard of accuracy.

● Strong organisational abilities and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced

environment.

● Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

● Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.

Lumepay Pty Ltd

Workshop 17 The Watershed 17 Dock Road

Waterfront, Cape Town

Job Title: Head of Trading Location: Cape Town Department: Trading Reports To: Director/COO Job Type: Full-time Job Level: Senior

About Us We are a high-growth fintech company building the next generation of payment infrastructure across Africa. Our mission is to make money movement seamless, inclusive, and scalable across borders. We operate at the intersection of financial innovation and real-world impact, empowering businesses and consumers with tools to thrive in a rapidly digitizing economy.

Role Overview We are looking for a commercially driven and technically savvy Head of Trading to join our trading team. The role involves real-time market making and pricing across spot FX and crypto pairs, direct client negotiation, and active involvement in developing and improving pricing engines and trading infrastructure.

This is a hybrid role requiring deep market insight, strong client-facing skills, and the ability to collaborate with developers and quants on trading system enhancements.

Key Responsibilities

Pricing and Trading

● Make competitive two-way prices across major and emerging market FX pairs and leading crypto assets (e.g., BTC, USDT).

● Monitor liquidity venues, OTC flows, and market depth to optimize pricing and execution quality.

● Maintain real-time visibility on P&L, inventory, spreads, and risk exposures.

● Execute trades and manage flows while adhering to defined risk limits and compliance policies.

Client Interaction

● Quote spot FX and crypto prices directly to institutional and high-volume clients.

● Negotiate trade terms and manage client expectations on pricing and execution.

● Act asa market intelligence source, providing insights into market movements and pricing rationale.

● Collaborate with the sales team to support onboarding, pricing strategies, and client retention.

System & Infrastructure Development

● Work with quant and engineering teams to improve the pricing engine, trading algorithms, and execution logic.

● Suggest and test enhancements for latency reduction, pricing accuracy, and auto-hedging logic.

● Analyze trade data to optimize spreads, slippage, and trading performance.

● Help define requirements and test cases for system upgrades, new product launches, and venue integrations.

COO Support

● Collaborate with the COO to enhance business processes and revenue-generation strategies.

● Assist with ad hoc tasks and initiatives as needed.

● Attend stakeholder meetings on behalf of the COO when required.

Qualifications

Education & Certifications

● Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

● Professional certifications (e.g., CFA, CA, FASSA) are advantageous but not required.

Experience

● 5-10 years of experience in spot or derivative market making.

● Prior experience in OTC, institutional crypto or FX trading is highly preferred.

● Proven track record in pricing, risk management, and client interaction in fast-moving markets.

● Experience with both centralized and decentralized crypto venues is a strong advantage.

Technical Skills

● Strong understanding of pricing models, market making, order books, and market dynamics.

● Familiarity with FIX protocols, WebSocket APIs, and trading platform integrations.

● Ability to work closely with technical teams to test, validate, and deploy system updates.

Soft Skills

● Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

● Strong attention to detail and high risk awareness.

● Calm under pressure and confident in decision-making during market volatility.

● Entrepreneurial, analytical, and collaborative mindset.

What We Offer

● Competitive salary + Bonus structure

● Opportunity to shape the future of cross-border payments in Africa.

● Work with an experienced, diverse team across fintech, payments, and blockchain.

Lumepay Pty Ltd

Workshop 17

The Watershed 17 Dock Road

Waterfront, Cape Town

Senior Full Stack Engineer – Fintech / Payments Location: Cape Town Department: Engineering Reports To: CTO Job Type: Full-time

About Us We are a high-growth fintech company building the next generation of payment infrastructure across Africa. Our mission is to make money movement seamless, inclusive, and scalable across borders. We operate at the intersection of financial innovation and real-world impact, empowering businesses and consumers with tools to thrive in a rapidly digitizing economy.

Key Responsibilities

Product Development & Architecture

● Design and develop scalable platforms, web applications for payments and settlement.

● Build and maintain secure, high-performance APIs for payment processing, KYC/AML, and partner integrations.

● Implement custody solutions and blockchain integrations for stablecoin transfers (e.g., USDC, USDT).

Integrations

● Integrate with payment gateways, banks, blockchain nodes, liquidity providers, and compliance services (e.g., Sumsub, Chainalysis).

● Build internal tools for operations, reconciliation, and risk monitoring.

Security & Compliance

● Implement secure coding practices (OWASP, PCI-DSS where applicable).

● Support compliance workflows (KYC, AML, transaction monitoring).

● Experience with SOC2 and/or ISO 27001 audits.

Collaboration & Leadership

● Work closely with Product, Compliance, and Ops to deliver features that meet business needs.

● Mentor junior engineers and participate in code reviews.

Skills & Experience

Must-Have

● Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field.

● 5–10 years’ experience as a Full Stack Engineer (preferably in fintech or payments).

● Strong backend experience in Node.js, TypeScript, Java, or Python.

● Frontend experience in React.js and Vue.js.

● Experience with relational and NoSQL databases.

● Strong API development experience (REST, GraphQL).

● Knowledge of blockchain fundamentals and working with Web3 APIs or SDKs.

● Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes.

● Solid understanding of security, encryption, and compliance in payments.

Nice-to-Have

● Experience in the African payments landscape (mobile money, local payment APIs).

● Familiarity with FX, liquidity, or remittance platforms.

● Knowledge of stablecoin settlement flows and blockchain scaling solutions. Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

What We Offer ● Competitive salary + Bonus structure

● Opportunity to shape the future of cross-border payments in Africa.

● Work with an experienced, diverse team across fintech, payments, and blockchain.

SEBENZA Role Profile

Position : Chief Financial Officer

Location / Branch : Bryanston

Reporting to : Chief Executive Officer

Overview:

We are looking for a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for a full-time position to provide strategic financial leadership while mentoring and developing the finance team within a dynamic start-up environment. The ideal candidate must be a qualified CA with at least 10 years of progressive finance experience, including significant exposure to strategic financial management and start-up or high-growth environments. They will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of financial management, ensuring compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and governance practices. The successful candidate will play a strategic role in strengthening the company’s financial position by providing timely insights, intelligence, and analysis to stakeholders, while fostering efficiency, innovation, and sustainable growth. The successful candidate will also be required to coach and mentor fellow team members and upskill from a technical, strategic and leadership perspective.

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of Financial Results. • Various Control and Systems implementation and review. • Tax compliance and all matters surrounding company tax • Overall management of budgeting and reforecasting process. • Management Account preparation. • Various operational reports. • Implementation and review of internal controls and processes. • Enhancement of systems. • Communication with suppliers, customers and other stakeholders. • Produce and present monthly financial reports for/to relevant stakeholders and executives. • Produce annual financial reports and financial statements in terms of IFRS to agreed time scales to

comply with the requirements of the company. • Ensure compliance with all statutory requirements relating to financial control, financial management

and accounting. Ensure implementation and adherence to finance policies, procedures and systems across all territories.

• Engage with external auditors to ensure successful audit results and compliance. Ensure appropriate external audit arrangements are in place and manage the audit process.

• Financial Modelling/Scenario Analysis.

Abilities and Skills:

• Problem solving skills and ability to think algorithmically. • Promoting Process Improvement. • Interpersonal and Relationship Skills. • Planning, organizing and coordination skills. • Attention to Detail. • Computer Literacy (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Outlook, MS PowerPoint). • Good personal presentation. • Able to function in a high-pressure environment.

• Ability to work at both a detailed and strategic level. • Be able to work with high level of accuracy. • Highly numerate and able to analyse statistical information and interpret financial data to produce

reports. • Critical thinking and problem-solving skills • Multi-tasking abilities • Must be able to meet deadlines timeously. • Work as part of a team. • Excellent report writing skills. • Excellent communication skills; both verbal and written. • Be able to use initiative; ability to deal with new situations, difficulties, and to come up with solutions.

Competencies:

• Deadline driven, accountable, thorough and professional. • Proactive, Efficient and Focused. • Responsible, self-managed and delivery focused. • Reliable, trustworthy and a team player. • Problem Solver.

Experience/Knowledge:

• CA(SA). • 10+ years of progressive finance experience. • Experience in Media and/or Fintech will be advantageous. • Proficient with Pastel, for both management accounts and annual financial statements. • Experience in the preparation and finalisation of accounts in accordance with IFRS. • Up to date knowledge on new IFRS standards and interpretations. • Up to date knowledge with South African Tax requirements ie Income Tax, Vat etc. • Knowledge of strategic and financial planning including costing, benchmarking, trends and KPIs. • Experience in budget preparation and reporting. • Computer literacy; fully conversant with the current uses of information technology. • Expert level of Excel skills and experience with Business Intelligence systems.

Disclaimer: The above information on this role profile has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within the specified role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned in this job.

Engineering Manager

Location: Remote first Head Office: Cape Town, South Africa; with offices in Johannesburg, Mauritius and Nairobi, Kenya)

Department: Engineering

Company: Peach Payments

About Peach Payments Peach Payments is a cutting-edge fintech company shaping the future of digital payments across Africa. We empower businesses of all sizes - from startups to enterprise merchants - by providing a secure, scalable, and seamless payments infrastructure.

Team Mission

Our mission is to cultivate an ecosystem of excellence. We exist to provide unparalleled support that empowers our teams (called pods) to not only meet but exceed their goals. We are the dedicated partners to our merchants, ensuring their success through world-class technical support, and the steadfast advocates for our engineers, fueling their passion and professional growth every single day.

Your Mission ● Collaboratively lead the pods to be the best version of themselves. ● You see your podsʼ health and output as your primary focus ● You own the delivery of product commitments and are always looking to

improve productivity

Role expectations:

Technical Standard Accountability

● Accountable for the technical standard and direction of the team and for the successful delivery of technology objectives OKRs and key performance indicators KPIs.

● Collaborate with the Tech Lead to uphold high technical standards, guiding architectural decisions, and ensuring alignment with the organization's goals and engineering strategy.

● Articulate the rationale behind technical decisions and maintain a detailed understanding of the team's prioritized technical work.

● Advocate for the prioritization of technical debt in collaboration with the Product Manager to ensure system robustness and longevity.

● Provide support for maintaining and attending to the team's technical roadmap.

Merchant & Stakeholder Management

● Serve as the lead technical advisor for merchants, assessing their technical requirements and landscape, thus guiding the sales team by strategically aligning Peach's technical solutions with customer needs.

● Lead technical discussions with stakeholders, partners, and merchants, serving as the primary technical point of contact during incidents and support queries.

● Develop and deliver training to up-skill Application Engineers, enabling them to handle more complex and technical support queries for the pods.

● Promote transparency and continuous improvement by ensuring the visibility of the team's technical KPIs to stakeholders and leadership.

Hands on Support

● Engage directly in the software development lifecycle by reviewing pull requests and guiding the deployment process in collaboration with the Tech Lead.

● Lead and engage in sprint ceremonies such as planning and refinement sessions by providing technical guidance on complex tasks and informed input on ticket estimations.

● Provide support to the Product Manager for better roadmap planning by providing technical insight, estimations and by running Technical Discovery on new tasks.

● Facilitate the decomposition of high-level ideas into actionable, high-value deliverables.

● Support the Tech Lead in mentoring and upskilling less-senior engineers, contributing to their technical development.

● Identify and mitigate risks that may impact delivery, quality and performance and develop associated contingency plans.

● Stay current with industry trends and best practices to drive relevant innovation within the team.

● Capable of stepping into the Tech Lead role when necessary.

Own the process

● Ensure work across the pod is balanced and reasonable. ● Promote transparency and continuous improvement by ensuring the visibility of

the team's velocity and predictability to stakeholders and leadership. ● Own people management responsibilities: performance management, hiring,

conflict resolution, providing feedback, mentoring, career mapping and coaching.

● Ensure the pod is adequately staffed for long-term health. ● Develop and maintain a succession plan for key roles within the pod to ensure

continuity and resilience. ● Propose and facilitate internal mobility.

Competencies: What You Bring

Solid Technical expertise: You are an accomplished Software Engineer. You can confidently lead technical discussions, grow strong technical teams and set a good technical standard within your teams.

Strong people management experience: Timely candidate evaluations, run interview processes leading to positive candidate experience; participate in calibration, career conversations, performance review and salary adjustments.

Payments domain knowledge: Comprehensive understanding of the steps of a transaction, knowledge of the technologies involved, the regulatory landscape, and the business drivers behind it all (customers, merchants, acquiring banks, etc..)

Competent in agile methodologies SCRUM beneficial): Use sprint metrics to drive efficiency and continuous improvement in delivery.

Our Tech Stack ● Languages: Python / Typescript / React / Node.js (at least 2 of these) ● Infrastructure/Configuration As Code: Terraform, Ansible, Packer ● Infrastructure: AWS Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Serverless, EC2, VPC, RDS,

Kafka ● Orchestration: EKS ● Databases: MongoDB, MySQL ● Tools: Cursor, Jira, Confluence, Gitlab, Agential AI Gemini, Claude) ● CI/CD & Automation: GitLab Pipelines ● Monitoring: Cloudwatch / Grafana / Sentry

Why Join Peach Payments?

● Impact: Work on mission-critical payments infrastructure processing millions of transactions.

● Growth: Be part of a fast-growing company expanding across Africa. ● Culture: Join a high-performance, diverse, and empathetic team focused on

respect for people and merchant success. ● Flexibility: Remote-first hybrid working - work from anywhere while staying

connected to a world-class team. ● Benefits - Benefits include a generous annual and life leave allocation, market

related salaries, owning the piece of the Peach pie through VSOP and more.

Be part of our journey to redefine digital payments in Africa! At Peach Payments we value diversity and are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experiences.