Meet Ozow 

Ozow is a leading fintech company that's redefining digital payments in South Africa and beyond. We're dedicated to making payments more accessible, secure, and convenient for both businesses and consumers. As a fast-growing player in the financial technology sector, Ozow fosters a culture of innovation, diversity, and inclusivity. We believe in pushing the boundaries of what's possible and are committed to making a positive impact on the world through our payment solutions. 

More about this Ozow fantastic position  

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, to collaborate with other developers in writing well-designed, testable code. You will be working with a team of passionate technology professionals, developing with modern technologies, and solving tough problems. Our team is hands-on, collaborative and driven. Our expanding team is moving the needle and pushing boundaries.

Your role and responsibilities 

Software Development Quality & Standards 

• Participating in regular code reviews
• Standardisation of technologies, approaches, and architectures across teams
• Active engagement with the development teams on all areas of software development

Agile Collaboration & Team Enablement 

• Liaise with agile coaches and product owners in order to resolve team impediments
• Working with agile coaches, technical leads, development managers, and the executive team to drive architectural changes in projects and deliver on initiatives
• Understanding the interdependency of work items and teams

Process Improvement & Operational Efficiency 

• Active monitoring of the software development process and continuous improvement thereof
• Work with the various development and technical support teams to resolve any production issues timeously and efficiently, keeping business impact to a minimum

You are an ideal candidate if you have 

• At least 7 years of work-related experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer
• Ideally have an IT Diploma or Degree
• Ability to develop software in .Net 8 C#, Javascript, ReactJs, HTML, CSS and other programming languages (polyglots preferred)
• Excellent knowledge of Postgres, Mssql technologies (EF, NHibernate)
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases such as Redis, Riak, MongoDB, and others.
• Experience developing web applications, with a good understanding of how the web works
• Proven experience in high-scale applications and an understanding of the practices and approaches that are employed in scaling applications beneficial.
• Experience with unit testing, knowledge of applying test-driven development beneficial
• Understanding DevOps principals and how to apply them practically beneficial.
• Experience in cloud services preferred – AWS, Azure.
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Appveyor) highly beneficial.
• Experience working with agile methodologies – a true believer.

INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

Cape Town

Hybrid working (On-site Tuesday and Thursday)

Based on the Cape Town beachfront – a breathtaking expanse of white sand and surf, against the backdrop of the world-famous Table Mountain is our newest addition to LiveScore Group – Wonderlabz.

With a strong legacy collective expertise, the team in Cape Town push the boundaries of gaming design and development, always aiming to provide advanced solutions to complex operational challenges delivering inhouse gaming software to LiveScore Group of the highest quality, every time.

LiveScore Group is home to LiveScore, LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet and now Wonderlabz - four of the most exciting brands in the sports and gaming industries today. We are passionate and excited about what we do in the Sports Media, Gaming and Betting sector and are proud of the high ratings we have achieved. We live our values, aiming to enhance and increase the enjoyment of sport through innovative products and immersive experiences. Trust is important in how we work, ensuring we are a collaborative unit who holds each other accountable. Relentlessly ambitious in everything we do, we embrace change and understand that failure is part of success.

We use our platform for positive social change and work to build a company our employees are proud to work for. We have a long-term commitment to diversity and inclusion. Our I.D.E.A (Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, Awareness) Forum is critical to our business and is embedded in our organisational structure to support a sense of belonging for everyone and to create a culture that allows all employees to thrive.

The Role

The Infrastructure Engineer’s role is to administer the Online Gaming platforms, ensure optimum performance and availability of such platform, provide third/fourth-level troubleshooting support, and liaise with all applicable service providers and third parties including NOC/1st/2nd line support. Provide technical support to all roles.

Key Responsibilities 

• Partake in the design and implementation of new setups
• Assist in process improvement and automation.
• Test and design new systems/services and their suitability for possible use in production environments
• Proactive monitoring and support of the live and staging infrastructure
• Investigate and react to any live or staging issues that might arise
• Prepare and take part in the periodic release of new software
• Act as an escalation point for issues flagged by customer support
• Handle service requests, incidents, problems and change requests, using ITIL best practice.
• Assist in process improvement and automation.
• Assist in intensive investigations into problems that would included detailed log and metrics analysis to provide detailed analysis, resolution and future prevention of such issues

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• All-rounder with proven experience in linux based environments with very good IT knowledge
• Possess excellent communication skills, capable of delivering information to both technical as well as non-technical personnel, the ability to work autonomously and in a team environment
• Detect/analyse alarms to provide fault isolation and remote troubleshooting, being a responsible individual for problems until their complete resolution
• Ability to analyse logs for troubleshooting issues, including malicious activity or cybersecurity threats, code and systems errors and problems
• Understands how to direct, support and guide other team members and knows how to motivate them with great attention to detail and acts as a senior technical resource for outages until restoration.
• Production support or implementation of Kubernetes, preferable in google managed Kubernetes environment (GKE) for at least 24 months
• Virtualisation - OpenStack, VMware, Cloud - Experience with any: Google GKE, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, OpenShift/OKD
• Excellent log analysis and setup of aggregated logging systems such as Splunk/EFK and excellent networking skills including packet capture and analysis
• Excellent monitoring and metrics analysis and systems implementation such as Grafana, APM, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc… with deep knowledge of various monitoring tools and excellent problem-solving skills
• Experience with code repositories GitHub/Gitlab, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles and DNS/HTTPS certificates

What can we offer? 

• Discovery medical aid
• 21 days leave
• Discretionary company performance bonus

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a senior, hands‑on DevSecOps Engineer with strong experience operating and securing cloud‑native production environments in regulated settings.

They have deep expertise in AWS, Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code, and are comfortable owning production reliability, security monitoring, incident response and audit readiness (e.g. SOC2, PCI‑DSS). They favour automation over manual processes and take a pragmatic, security‑first approach to building and running scalable platforms.

This individual works well across engineering teams, communicates clearly in a distributed environment, and is confident mentoring others on secure infrastructure and DevSecOps best practices.

The Role

The DevSecOps Engineer's objective is to integrate security controls and maintain a highly available cloud infrastructure. You will ensure our platform remains secure, scalable, and compliant with relevant security standards (including SOC2 and PCI-DSS) by focusing on the running, securing, and monitoring of services in production.

Key Objectives:

• Production Excellence: Operate production environments with a "security-first" mindset, monitoring both availability and potential threats.
• Infrastructure as Code: Build and maintain secure IaC to manage platform scaling and consistency.
• Continuous Compliance: Ensure the success of security audits through automated compliance checks and rigorous evidence collection.
• Culture & Collaboration: Bridge the gap between development, security, and operations to foster a robust DevSecOps culture within the wider Engineering department.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Management: Manage core AWS services (EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda) with a focus on encryption, least-privilege access, and service reliability.
• Monitoring & Incident Response: Develop and refine strategies for monitoring system health and security events using tools like OpenSearch, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Compliance & Auditing: Ensure all AWS environments meet relevant security standards. Implement and monitor "Policy as Code" using Terraform to automate audit-readiness.
• Deployment & Security Automation: Maintain configurations for automation tools, secure deployments, and vulnerability scans. Work with standardized SDLC tools to ensure consistent delivery to production.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work closely with the teams and Software Engineers to ensure application deployments are successful, working as intended, and compliant with security standards.
• Technical Mentorship: Provide leadership and guidance on secure infrastructure practices to other Software Engineers across the organization.
• This position involves on-call responsibilities: Responding to operational incidents when necessary. We aim to minimize unnecessary paging and build fault-tolerant systems that reduce operational load.

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• 5 years+ in a DevSecOps, SRE, or Cloud Engineering role, preferably in fintech or a highly regulated environment.
• Deep expertise in AWS (specifically IAM, EKS, VPC, S3, RDS, and EC2).
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, firewalls, and security tools (e.g., WAF, KMS, Shield).
• Extensive experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS), including administration and deployment via Helm.
• Proficiency in Terraform for managing complex cloud environments.
• Experience securing and tuning PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MariaDB.
• Experience with GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or Atlantis.
• Proficiency in Python or Bash for automation tasks.

Personality Attributes

• Ability to thrive under the pressure of audit deadlines and production incidents.
• A strong preference for automated solutions over manual intervention.
• Strong communication skills for working with distributed teams across multiple time zones.

The Position

The Solution Engineer will be the primary technical sales resource for our regional sales team and will assist in identifying customer challenges and driving technical alignment between customer needs and the OPSWAT solutions. You will serve as a product and industry expert, effectively describing and demonstrating our solution as well as promoting our vision and approach. You will be a trusted point of contact for our customers while advancing the sales process.

At the same time, you will be a liaison to the engineering team to drive the direction of the product. The ideal candidate will have previous work experience as a member of a corporate sales team and a career track record of supporting large and complex enterprise sales.

What You Will be Doing

• Work with the OPSWAT sales team as well as partners to drive Enterprise business 
• Manage customer requirements, expectations, and solution buy-in
• Build customer’s confidence and awareness in our products/solutions
• Manage, deliver, and present detailed responses to industry RFPs
• Train and certify resellers and partners
• Present at Conferences and Seminars
• Support proof of concepts, implementations and installs as needed to successfully satisfy customer requirements

What We Need from You 

• 5+ years of cybersecurity or networking software sales engineering or technical sales experience 
• Excellent track record in developing new business and meeting/exceeding sales targets 
• Comfortable leading discussions within the cybersecurity domain to all customer levels (CISO to IT administrator)
• Strong presentation and application demo skills 
• Experience installing and troubleshooting enterprise applications in Windows and Linux environments
• A self-motivator who thrives on identifying and resolving customer pain points.

It Would be Nice if You Had

• Experience in enterprise software or networking solutions, ideally within the network or device security space
• Knowledge of Sandbox and anti-malware products and markets
• A technical understanding of APIs
• Experience working with CRM software

Please submit your resume in English.

To learn more about our team and office culture in Cape Town, South Africa visit the following links. 
Careers Page: https://www.knowbe4.com/careers/locations/cape-town
Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Location/KnowBe4-Cape-Town-Location-EI_IE969384.0,7_IL.8,17_IC2653748.htm
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/knowbe4/life/southafrica/

We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to help scale the industrialization of our ML lifecycle. This is a Builder’s Role - you will be responsible for the high-scale architecture that allows our models to survive production. You’ll be a key contributor to our MLOps ecosystem, moving beyond experimentation to build high-throughput, distributed systems that serve as the backbone of our intelligence products.

Machine Learning Engineers help us extract value from our data. They are involved in all the processes from data collection, cleaning, and preprocessing, to training models and deploying them to production. This position will assess, analyze, and organize data, execute tests, and optimize the learning process to develop high-performance machine learning models.

Responsibilities:

• Develops software using the KnowBe4 Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Methodologies
• Designs, develops, and researches Machine Learning systems
• Transforms data science prototypes by applying appropriate Machine Learning algorithms and tools
• Performs statistical analysis and using results to improve models
• Inference Engineering: Drive the deployment and optimization of both standard predictive models and LLM architectures, balancing trade-offs between low latency, high throughput, and cost-efficiency
• Platform Hardening: Transition research prototypes into resilient, production-ready microservices that can handle massive traffic
• Lifecycle Orchestration: Execute automated pipelines for data and model versioning, validation, and retraining
• Observability: Implement advanced monitoring for model drift, data integrity, and system health to ensure production reliability
• Collaborative Standards: Uphold clean code practices, thorough documentation, and participate in rigorous code reviews across the ML and Engineering teams

Requirements:

• BS or equivalent plus 3 years experience
• MS/Ph.D. or equivalent plus no experience
• Training in secure coding practices (preferred)
• AI/ML and Core: Python (production-grade), PyTorch
• Data and Features: Apache Spark for distributed processing; experience with Feature Stores or automated feature engineering is a plus
• Infrastructure: AWS (SageMaker, Lambda), Docker, and Terraform/IaC for environment reproducibility
• Specialized Tooling: Experience with custom inference optimization (Python-based); orchestration via lean, custom AWS and Python-based solutions using Lambda and MLflow
•  Additional: C# and JavaScript (beneficial)
• Familiarity with secure coding practices

The Reality Check:

While the title says pure ML, the day-to-day is data heavy and is also focused on the AI and ML Platform Engineering around our services. Expect a roughly 90/10 split - the vast majority of your impact will come from hardening data pipelines, refining CI/CD for ML, and building world-class observability, with the remaining portion dedicated to model building, implementation and tuning.

Your Impact
Axon is the developer and manufacturer of conducted electrical weapons, body worn cameras, and digital evidence management solutions. By successfully applying technical solutions to age old problems in digital video capture, the Axon team has redefined public and private sector technology around the globe. We are a team of passionate and dedicated professionals who desire to disrupt our industry and protect life with our products. Axon is seeking a high-energy, results driven pre-sales sales engineer who thrives on pitching technology to leadership as well as support staff and end-users. This individual will play an instrumental role in accelerating our sales initiatives and must be a self-starter, who excels in a high-paced, evangelistic startup environment focused on Law Enforcement and the public safety space.

What You’ll Do
Location: Saudi Africa, remote, travel up to 70% of time
Reports to: Director, Sales Engineering

• Achieve mastery of all Axon technologies / products
• Use exceptional written and oral communication skills to lead business and technical presentations effectively
• Have technical conversations with IT departments, including CIOs, as well as channel partner leadership and technical stakeholders
• Set and manage expectations with customers and team members
• Provide 1st-level technical support throughout the pre-sales cycle for opportunities
• Remain organized and focused on removing sales obstacles through creativity and adaptation to rapidly changes circumstances
• Develop relationships with key partners for growth within their customer base
• Effectively position the technology against competitive offerings
• Be responsible for representing the products, company values, and brand to customers and at field events such as industry and user conferences, tech summits, etc.
• Take ownership of the POC/Pilot process: Coordinate logistics across all stakeholders, assess customer requirements/objectives, and tailor POC tests and findings, accordingly, assist prospects with initial configuration and orientation
• Where possible, improve or develop technical documentation to ease understanding and customer or channel usage of our products and services
• Capture requested features and provide feedback to Product Management, Sales, Development, Support, Engineering and Marketing teams
• Develop Statements of Work (SOW) for Professional Services necessary for binding quote
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned

What You Bring

• Willingness to travel;
• Fluent English, French is a plus;
• Assist Sales with presentations and analysis to enlarge customer portfolio;
• Training new employees;
• Document translation & verification for new products Axon brings to the market
• Assist Sales Executives in commercial offer documentation
• Educational background:
• Associates degree in Engineering or Computer Science (or equivalent field), or 5+ years relevant experience.
• Professional background:
• 4+ years customer facing pre-sales or consulting background required
• 3+ years of experience with public procurement in Africa
• Experience selling SaaS based solutions
• Experience in End User Compute or Cloud Computing preferred
• Experience in networking, storage, virtualization, or related technologies
• Must have intellectual curiosity, humility, accountability and positive approach;
• Strong Technical Writing skills to provide professional responses to customer RFPs / RFIs
• Basic knowledge or curiosity of security, IPsec, InfoSec, hacking and exploitation tools and methodologies.
• Basic knowledge of computer hardware, operating systems, and storage devices.
• Ability to work independently with substantial latitude for action and decision making while maintaining focus on achieving optimal outcomes as part of a collaborative development effort.
• Requires the ability to work independently with substantial latitude for action and decision making while maintaining focus on achieving optimal outcomes as part of a collaborative development effort.
• Strong presentation skills and presence, technical acumen, ability to simplify the complex, ability to work cross-functionally.
• Experience developing Statements of Work (SOW) or similar documents
• Intermediate knowledge of routing and switching methodologies, telecommunications, and Internet technologies.
• Basic knowledge of virtualization and cloud technologies
• Network and Telecommunication-specific professional certifications, such as but not limited to: CCNA, CCNP, ComTIA Network+, WCNA, etc..
• Experience with Law Enforcement technology solutions and public procurement is a plus

About Nintex: 

At Nintex, we are transforming the way people work, everywhere.   

As the global standard for process intelligence and automation, we're trusted by over 10,000 public and private sector organizations across 90 countries. Our customers, from industry giants like Amazon, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft, rely on the Nintex Platform to accelerate their digital transformation journeys by managing, automating, and optimizing business processes quickly and efficiently. We improve their lives through the technology we build.  

We are committed to fostering a workplace that supports amazing people in doing their very best work every day. Collaboration is constant, our workplace is fun, the environment is fast-paced, and we value our people’s curiosity, ideas, and enthusiasm. Driven by passion and accountability, we take initiative, measure progress, and deliver results. Our culture fosters innovation and problem-solving, fueled by curiosity and a commitment to thinking big. Together, we move with agility, prioritize customer needs, and build unity through empathy, leaving a positive impact wherever we go.  

Working in engineering: 

Working at Nintex as an engineer means building more than just software; it’s about making a tangible impact with every line of code. Our engineers are process experts, developing the industry’s most complete process and automation platform to transform the way people work. If you’re interested, curious and want to learn and do more, the sky is the limit here. We take a solutions-oriented and collaborative approach, constantly innovating our business and products. 

About the role: 

The Engineering Manager for the DevTools team leads a group focused on building internal developer platforms (IDPs), tooling, and services that enable product delivery teams to move quickly, safely, and efficiently. This role is designed for a technical leader who thrives at the intersection of high-scale systems architecture and people development. You will champion our developer portal, treating our internal developers as customers to build seamless, self-service tooling that removes cognitive load and accelerates product delivery. You ensure your team delivers high quality, secure, and reliable software aligned with product and infrastructure roadmaps. You partner closely with Product Management, Platform Engineering, and internal delivery teams to define, build, and operate foundational tooling such as containerized application systems, CI/CD workflows, platform integrations, and shared infrastructure capabilities.  

Your contribution will be: 

Engineering Leadership: 

- Ensure the team produces high-quality, secure, well tested code. 

- Provide technical direction for developer platforms and shared tooling. 

- Guide design and architecture decisions with clear tradeoffs. 

- Promote best practices for scalability, resilience, security, performance, and reliability. 

- Oversee service reliability and ensure systems meet SLOs and SLIs. 

- Ensure CI/CD pipelines and automation support delivery teams. 

Delivery & Execution: 

- Run the team using agile principles with meaningful metrics. 

- Maintain visibility into risks, technical debt, dependencies. 

- Partner with Product Management to shape and prioritize the backlog. 

- Ensure timely delivery of features and platform capabilities. 

- Participate in incident management and follow-up improvements. 

Team Management: 

- Coach and develop engineers with growth plans. 

- Lead hiring and workforce planning. 

- Promote knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. 

Technical Expertise: 

- IDP Tooling: Experience with ArgoCD, GitOps, and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/Pulumi). Experience with Backstage or similar internal portals is a significant plus. 

- Cloud Native Ecosystem: Understanding of Kubernetes, container security, and service mesh within Azure/AWS environments. 

- DevEx Metrics: Familiarity with tracking DORA metrics and Developer Experience (DevEx) signals to measure the platform's impact on velocity and quality. 

To be successful, we think you need:   

• 2+ years experience in leading a team
• 6+ years of strong experience and background in software engineering (Javascript, NodeJS, ReactJS, Relational and Non-Relational Databases)
• Strong experience in Kubernetes & Containerization.

What’s in it for you? 

Nintex has a hybrid working model, enabling us to build culture, learn, and grow together. We intentionally connect and collaborate, while emphasizing flexibility with a blend of at-home and in-office work. This role is a hybrid role in our local Nintex office.

While our offerings differ from country to country, we offer our entire global workforce an array of exciting perks and benefits, including 

• Global Gratitude and Recharge Days
• Flexible, paid time off policy
• Employee wellness programs and counseling resources
• Meaningful peer recognition and awards
• Paid parental leave
• Invention/patenting assistance
• Community impact, paid volunteer time, and opportunities
• Intercultural learning and celebration
• Multiple tools through which to learn and grow, and an incredible global community 

View more about our benefits here: https://www.nintex.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Global-Perks-and-Benefits.pdf.  

Equity Statement: Preference will be given to People Living with Disability who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Company.

About this job

As a Security Engineer you will form part of JUMO’s dedicated Security Team. Our mission is to raise JUMO's overall security posture, by identifying security issues and helping teams to understand and address them. 

JUMO’s tech stack runs in AWS and includes AWS EKS, Terraform, microservices written in Kotlin, Datadog and CI/CD based on Github Actions and ArgoCD. As a Security Engineer you will need to be familiar with these systems, as well as specific security tooling such as various AWS-based security tools (Security Hub, GuardDuty, AWS WAF, etc), Okta, Semgrep, CrowdStrike EDR, Mimecast, FleetDM and more. 

You will report into the Head of Security.

You will 

• Help to discover and triage vulnerabilities from various sources.
• Design, configure, deploy, and maintain secure configurations across JUMO’s cloud and endpoint estate.
• Work with engineering teams to complete threat modeling exercises.
• Work with teams across JUMO to improve the SDLC and help secure the systems they are responsible for.
• Write code to automate tasks and integrate it with other products and integrations.
• Implement and improve security observability.
• Respond to, document and automate incident responses.
• Help secure JUMO’s use of AI tooling.
• Proactively seek ways to improve existing processes and systems related to incidents, vulnerabilities, security control systems, and risks.
• Coach, mentor, and share knowledge within the team.

You will need

• 3+ years of information security experience.
• Experience in a security implementation and operations environment.
• Good foundational programming experience, in a modern language such as Python, as well as Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform).
• Experience with cloud services such as cloud providers, SSO, cloud email gateways, cloud productivity suites.
• Ability to build relationships and work effectively with other teams.
• Ability to effectively prioritize tasks and take initiative.
• A keen eye to identify process constraints and find solutions to alleviate these.
• Ability to work independently and be comfortable with responsibility.

Bonus if you have 

• Stronger coding experience. For example, you can write code that interacts with a set of APIs, transforms the data, stores it in a database, and pushes it to another API.

We ask a lot of each other at JUMO, but we give a lot too. 

You will love

• Collaborating with smart, engaging people in an inspiring work environment
• Working as one team towards our goal of financial inclusion
• Growing and learning continuously, with loads of encouragement and support
• Boldly taking risks as we navigate new challenges
• Flexible work practices enabling your best delivery
• Being autonomous and empowered to lead

• A stack of leading-edge technologies 

Remote First

This position is based remotely in any country between UTC+0 and UTC+3 timezones.  We operate a remote first working approach, where working remotely is our default way of working.  Our environment is designed to foster innovation and enable collaboration. You have flexibility where to work from, as long as you are set up to work remotely and have access to data with a strong and reliable connection as we value online facetime for collaboration at JUMO.

Diversity and Inclusion

At JUMO, we firmly believe that diversity strengthens our teams. We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive recruitment process that cultivates an environment where all individuals can be authentic, collaborate, and thrive.

At 2U, we are all in on purpose. We are motivated by our mission – to eliminate the back row in education – and connected by our shared passion to deliver world-class digital education at scale. As the parent company of edX, the world’s leading online learning platform, 2U powers more than 4,000 online higher education offerings – from free courses to full degrees. Together with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporate partners, we are helping to unlock human potential.

What We’re Looking For:

The Media Systems Engineer works within the 2U Learning division as the resident expert in media post-production workflows and best practices. They will serve as the system administrator for the post-production environment including 2U’s enterprise media asset management system, media storage solution, and all ancillary post-production related equipment and peripherals that enable workflows including ingest, transcoding, video editing, motion graphics, audio mixing, color correction, video quality assurance, and final delivery. This pivotal role will be a key liaison between 2U post production teams across product lines including Graduate and Undergraduate Degrees, Executive Education, and edX.

This role will collaborate with internal 2U departments including Engineering, Production Innovation, Learning Technology, and IT, as well as external post production vendors, our systems integration partner, and product suppliers to ensure continued proper protocols as they relate to security, ongoing maintenance, updates, and enhancements to post production systems. This person will also work with the Media Systems Specialist to provide guidance and delegate day to day responsibilities. This person is a passionate media and tech enthusiast, constantly monitoring and absorbing media production and ed-tech industry norms, as well as the latest technical solutions including hardware, equipment and post-production related software. The person in this role will aid in determining 2U’s media and video technological vision, implementing media technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company's business needs.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

1. Serve as global Administrator and in-house SME for media/video post-production systems including media asset management solution, AWS storage infrastructure in partnership with 2U IT/Engineering, and all media-related equipment and peripherals

• Monitor performance and maintain post-production systems according to established requirements.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders and external vendors who are users within 2U’s MAM environment. 
• Main liaison between 2U, post-production vendors, systems integration partner, and product suppliers for ongoing required support and troubleshooting of system anomalies. 
• Provide technical expertise for all post-production editorial and technical staff including editors and motions graphics designers, video post-production management staff, and production staff for day-to-day video engineering needs encompassing all related disciplines such as operational system support monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Ensure security of the media post production environment leveraging deployed tools through access controls, backups, and firewalls.
• Establish and manage all user permissions and track licensing and usage.
• Troubleshoot access issues and outages among end users.
• Administer, support, and operate AWS/S3 tools and cloud-based storage; monitor and report on ingress and egress in collaboration with 2U Engineering team.
• Administer, support, and operate file-based encoding, transcoding, and media conform workflows from ingest through final delivery.
• Manage and inventory all 2U-owned local (US-based) hard drives, RAID storage, and LTO archive library if applicable. 
• Support and operate LTO archive library, RAID storage, and hard drives, as necessary in conjunction with current 2U post production vendor
• Assist with software configurations for physical/local/remote servers and ingest/edit workstations as required.
• Install and maintain physical/local servers and ingest/edit workstations as required.
• Troubleshoot any machine/equipment failures, software glitches, and offline/missing media, escalating to SI partner when necessary.
• Help evaluate and troubleshoot technical quality control issues related to media, including both raw and final assets, and work with stakeholders executing media acquisition on resolving these issues. 
• Make recommendations and implement upgrades to media post-production systems and software with new models and releases in order to support increasing scale, complexity requirements, and future functionality enhancements. 
• Provide insight on required technical specifications for production including field and studio acquisition.

2. Develop, introduce, monitor, and improve workflows and automation in partnership with various stakeholders including internal and external post production teams.

• Develop efficient workflows based on best practices essential to a media post production operation. 
• Develop and update technical documentation, policies, and SOPs for media and editorial workflows.
• Collaborate with 2U’s systems integration partner, product vendors, and internal 2U stakeholders to develop and test API integrations. 
• Participate and advise on best practices for Adobe Creative Suite project and sequence organizational structures, MAM metadata architecture, and taxonomy standards.
• Identify new areas for a more streamlined approach to relevant production and post-production work including automation considerations. 
• Support vendor and partner inquiries regarding external media production best practices and technical deliverable requirements. 
• Participate in discussions and/or review of updates or modifications to overall operational workflows and SOPs, as appropriate.
• Maintain and update technical quality control specifications.

3. Training/Coaching.

• Responsible for training Media Systems Specialist and internal 2U staff and external vendors on related 2U systems who participate in production and post production processes including advising on technical specifications for filming/recording, editing, graphics, audio, and video quality control and assurance.
• Develop expertise on all aspects of 2U’s post-production environment including deployed MAM software and AWS storage.
• Develop and maintain training materials including user-guides, documentation, screen share recordings, etc. for user groups.
• Communicate rollouts of new video post production tools and resources to user groups.
• Training and facilitating internal 2U and external vendor training for any user groups leveraging MAM.
• Provide orientation to external/freelance technical and editorial staff (e.g. video editors) to post-production operational systems.

4. Take on additional duties and responsibilities as required.

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

• Bachelor’s Degree is required.  
• 7+ years of professional video/media production/post production, engineering and operations experience.
• Experience as a System Administrator, Network Administrator or similar role in support of a complex media post production operation.
• Experience with various operating systems and platforms.
• Experience with databases, networks (LAN, WAN), and cloud-based media storage. AWS/S3 and tiered cloud storage experience is a plus. 
• Experience with media processing systems and workflows at various stages of the media supply chain (workflow engines, ingest, transcode, metadata, editing, delivery). 
• Comprehensive knowledge of file-based and proxy workflows, formats, frame rates, aspect ratios, codecs and file types required for a high-volume media post production environment.
• Expertise in media post-production software and editing techniques on non-linear editing platforms including the full Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience with enterprise media asset management software. IPV Curator experience is a plus. 
• Full knowledge of encode hardware and transcode software applications. Root 6 workflow engine experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of system security and data backup/recovery.
• Experience with LTO Archive software and hardware.
• Experience with product/project management software, Atlassian Jira is a plus.
• Expertise leveraging various technology and software solutions including Google Suite, Microsoft Office, Slack and overall web-savviness.
• Knowledge of technical aspects of video production, including best practices for filming, lighting and audio engineering techniques.
• Familiarity with video closed captioning and transcription workflows.
• Maintains a high level of professionalism and has the ability to interface effectively with a variety of people including internal staff, executive management, and vendors to establish productive, ongoing relationships. 
• Ability to work with a team with the ultimate goal of creating the highest quality academic content possible for our university partners.
• Impeccable verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate in a courteous, tactful, and concise manner.
• Champion of change management, with a proven ability to influence and guide stakeholders on highly technical processes.
• Supremely organized and capable of handling multiple projects, priorities, and competing deadlines simultaneously.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment that requires constant agility and adaptability.
• An intuitive decision-maker with excellent critical thinking and analytical skills.
• A positive, proactive and collaborative attitude.  
• A great sense of humor and the ability to handle stress with grace.

Other Attributes That Will Help You In This Role:

Working Conditions 

Limited travel may be required on an as-needed basis. There will be an intermittent requirement to support media post-production teams in different time zones. 

Physical Requirements

May need to transport/install/rack various post-production related equipment.

Benefits & Culture

Our global employee base is a diverse collection of innovators, dreamers, and doers working together to transform lives through higher education. We believe that every employee can advance our shared purpose, and that life at 2U should be fun and meaningful. If you’re excited by the opportunity to provide over 40 million learners and counting with access to world-class online higher education, then join us – and do work that makes a difference. #NoBackRow

We offer comprehensive benefits (unique per country) and excellent work/life balance.
Full-time, ZA benefits include: 

• 2 complimentary Getsmarter short courses per year
• Subsidised medical aid with Discovery Health Medical Scheme
• 4% 2U contribution towards Discovery Life Pension Fund and Group Risk Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Generous leave policy including time off to volunteer for non-profit organization, study leave, sports leave and a company-wide festive season break

2U Diversity and Inclusion Statement

At 2U, we are committed to building and sustaining a culture of belonging, respect, and inclusion. We are proud of the steps we’ve taken to bring together an employee base that embodies diverse walks of life, ideas, genders, ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities and other unique qualities. We strive to offer a workplace where every employee feels empowered by what makes us different, as well as by how we are alike. 

2U is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodations, please reach out to us at: recruitingaccommodations@2u.com. 

About 2U Inc. 

For more than a decade, 2U, Inc. has been the digital transformation partner of choice to great non-profit colleges and universities delivering high-quality online education at scale. As the parent company of edX, a leading global online learning platform, 2U provides over 45 million learners with access to world-class education in partnership with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporations. Our people and technology are powering more than 4,000 digital education offerings — from free courses to full degrees — and helping unlock human potential. To learn more: visit 2U.com.

About edX

edX is the education movement for restless learners and a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc. Together with the majority of the world’s top-ranked universities and industry-leading companies, we bring our community of over 45 million learners world-class education to support them at every stage of their lives and careers, from free courses to full degrees. And we're not stopping there — we're relentlessly pursuing our vision of a world where every learner can access education to unlock their potential, without the barriers of cost or location. Learn more at edX.org.

Learn more at https://2u.com/careers/
#NoBackRow

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this position, and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

2U is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against applicants or employees and ensures equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of their race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, marital status, disability, citizenship, military or veterans’ status, or any other classifications protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. 2U’s equal opportunity policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, job benefits and pay. 

2U is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. 2U requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

At 2U, we are all in on purpose. We are motivated by our mission – to eliminate the back row in education – and connected by our shared passion to deliver world-class digital education at scale. As the parent company of edX, the world’s leading online learning platform, 2U powers more than 4,000 online higher education offerings – from free courses to full degrees. Together with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporate partners, we are helping to unlock human potential.

What We’re Looking For:

As the Senior Manager of Cybersecurity Operations, you will lead and mature 2U’s global cyber defense and security operations capabilities. This role is accountable for the effective execution of threat detection, incident response, vulnerability management, and operational security monitoring across a global enterprise.

You will manage and develop a team of security engineers responsible for day-to-day security operations, while also acting as the operational bridge between cybersecurity engineering, infrastructure, SRE, IT, and external partners (including managed or embedded resources). While remaining technically credible, your primary focus will be on operational excellence, incident readiness, process maturity, and ensuring consistent, high-quality execution of security operations at scale.

This role requires strong leadership, sound judgment under pressure, and the ability to translate technical security events into clear risk-based communication for senior stakeholders. You will own operational outcomes, ensure alignment to industry frameworks, and continuously improve tools, processes, and team capability to reduce risk across 2U’s most critical systems.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

Cybersecurity Operations & Execution

• Own and oversee day-to-day cybersecurity operations, ensuring effective threat detection, investigation, response, and remediation across cloud, application, and infrastructure environments.
• Ensure security monitoring, alerting, and response processes are consistently executed, well-documented, and aligned to defined SLAs and severity models.
• Provide operational oversight of security tooling (e.g., SIEM, EDR, SOAR), ensuring tools are properly configured, maintained, and delivering actionable outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement of operational runbooks, response workflows, and automation to reduce manual effort and improve response quality.

Cybersecurity Incident Management & Operational Readiness

• Own the cybersecurity incident management program, ensuring incidents are triaged, escalated, coordinated, and resolved effectively.
• Ensure clear roles, escalation paths, and communications are in place for security incidents, including coordination with SRE, Engineering, Infrastructure, IT, Legal, Privacy, and Communications teams.
• Lead post-incident reviews for security incidents, driving root cause analysis, remediation tracking, and systemic improvements.
• Ensure incident response practices align with industry standards and internal risk management expectations.

Engineering, Cloud & Application Security Alignment

• Partner with Cloud Security, Application Security, and Engineering teams to ensure security controls, detections, and response requirements are operationalised within cybersecurity operations.
• Ensure outputs from Cloud Security and Application Security initiatives (e.g., controls, detections, alerts, runbooks) are effectively integrated into security monitoring, incident response, and operational workflows.
• Act as the primary intake point for security-relevant operational signals from engineering and platform teams, ensuring they are triaged, prioritised, and actioned appropriately by cybersecurity operations.
• Collaborate with partner teams to identify gaps in detection, response coverage, and operational readiness, and drive improvements to expand and mature cybersecurity operations coverage.
• Serve as an escalation and advisory point for security-related operational issues, ensuring coordination with the appropriate domain owners (Cloud, Application, Infrastructure, SRE) while maintaining clear accountability.

Security Operations Coverage & Readiness

• Ensure cybersecurity operations maintain effective visibility and response capability across cloud, infrastructure, and application environments, aligned to defined risk and threat models.
• Oversee the integration of logging, telemetry, alerts, and response playbooks into operational tooling (e.g., SIEM, SOAR, EDR), without assuming ownership of underlying platform or application architectures.
• Partner with domain security teams to validate that new systems, services, and changes are adequately covered by operational security monitoring and incident response processes.
• Continuously assess and improve operational coverage to ensure cybersecurity operations can detect, respond to, and support incidents across the evolving technical environment.

Proactive Risk & Vulnerability Management

• Own the operational vulnerability management lifecycle, ensuring vulnerabilities are identified, prioritized, remediated, and tracked to closure.
• Use risk-based prioritization to balance remediation effort with business impact and operational realities.
• Ensure security findings and risk trends are translated into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Team Leadership & Partner Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop cybersecurity operations engineers, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
• Provide direction and oversight to embedded or partner resources (e.g., Sonata), ensuring clear expectations, quality delivery, and alignment to 2U standards.
• Contribute to workforce planning, skills development, and operational maturity of the cybersecurity operations function.

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

• 5+ years experience in cybersecurity or security operations, with progression into technical leadership or people management.
• Experience leading or supporting security operations, incident response, or threat management in complex environments.
• Working knowledge of AWS; exposure to GCP or Azure is a plus.
• Comfortable with scripting/automation (e.g., Python, Bash) to guide and review operational improvements.
• Experience partnering on CI/CD and DevSecOps initiatives to ensure security signals feed into detection and response.
• Familiarity with cloud-native and containerised environments and their operational security risks.
• Required: Hands-on experience with SIEM and EDR platforms supporting security monitoring, investigation, and incident response.
• Beneficial: Experience with SOAR workflows and WAF technologies to support security automation and application protection.
• Strong analytical judgment, able to make risk-based decisions under pressure.
• Clear communicator with both technical teams and senior stakeholders.

Benefits & Culture

Our global employee base is a diverse collection of innovators, dreamers, and doers working together to transform lives through higher education. We believe that every employee can advance our shared purpose, and that life at 2U should be fun and meaningful. If you’re excited by the opportunity to provide over 40 million learners and counting with access to world-class online higher education, then join us – and do work that makes a difference. #NoBackRow

We offer comprehensive benefits (unique per country) and excellent work/life balance.
Full-time, ZA benefits include: 

• 2 complimentary Getsmarter short courses per year
• Subsidised medical aid with Discovery Health Medical Scheme
• 4% 2U contribution towards Discovery Life Pension Fund and Group Risk Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Generous leave policy including time off to volunteer for non-profit organization, study leave, sports leave and a company-wide festive season break

2U Diversity and Inclusion Statement

At 2U, we are committed to building and sustaining a culture of belonging, respect, and inclusion. We are proud of the steps we’ve taken to bring together an employee base that embodies diverse walks of life, ideas, genders, ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities and other unique qualities. We strive to offer a workplace where every employee feels empowered by what makes us different, as well as by how we are alike. 

2U is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodations, please reach out to us at: recruitingaccommodations@2u.com. 

About 2U

For more than a decade, 2U has been the digital transformation partner of choice to great non-profit colleges and universities delivering high-quality online education at scale. As the parent company of edX, a leading global online learning platform, 2U provides over 45 million learners with access to world-class education in partnership with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporations. Our people and technology are powering more than 4,000 digital education offerings — from free courses to full degrees — and helping unlock human potential. To learn more: visit 2U.com.

About edX

edX is the education movement for restless learners and a leading global online learning platform from 2U. Together with the majority of the world’s top-ranked universities and industry-leading companies, we bring our community of over 45 million learners world-class education to support them at every stage of their lives and careers, from free courses to full degrees. And we're not stopping there — we're relentlessly pursuing our vision of a world where every learner can access education to unlock their potential, without the barriers of cost or location. Learn more at edX.org.

Learn more at https://2u.com/careers/
#NoBackRow

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this position, and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

2U is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against applicants or employees and ensures equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of their race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, marital status, disability, citizenship, military or veterans’ status, or any other classifications protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. 2U’s equal opportunity policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, job benefits and pay. 

2U is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. 2U requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a highly competent Database Engineer for both on-prem and AWS Cloud. The successful candidate has considerable hands-on experience managing multi-node, multi-TB, high-load clusters, and has worked in high-pressure environments interacting with Production, Development and Infrastructure teams to identify, chaperone and resolve issues in development and production. A deep understanding of and extensive work experience with Galera or Percona Cluster on MySQL and/or MariaDB is key. Relevant experience with industry security standards (PCI DSS, PCI 3DS) is a big plus.

The Role

As a MySQL Database Engineer at Entersekt, you will be part of a company that provides 24/7 support for mission-critical database systems for financial authentication solutions in the market. You will be responsible for performing daily database administration, database design and troubleshooting, replication, and performance tuning tasks for multiple MariaDB and MySQL Clusters in production and development.

Responsibilities

Database management:

• Design, implement, and maintain MySQL/MariaDB database clusters.
• Ensure the availability and performance of databases.
• Perform regular database capacity planning and ensure proper storage management.
• Replication between databases for high availability.

Database security:

• Implement and maintain database security measures to protect sensitive data.
• Manage user access and permissions.
• Implement and maintain auditing functions.

Backup and recovery:

• Develop and implement backup/recovery strategies.
• Regularly test and verify backups to ensure data integrity.
• Plan and execute database recovery procedures in case of failures.

Performance tuning:

• Monitor and optimize database performance.
• Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Collaborate with team to improve query performance.
• Tune database and platform configurations to utilize hardware capacity.

Database upgrades and patching:

• Plan and execute database upgrades.
• Determine short and long-term upgrade paths and strategies.
• Apply patches and updates to ensure database security and stability.

Troubleshooting:

• Diagnose and resolve database-related issues.
• Provide support to development teams in debugging database-related problems.

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred, but not required.
• Proven 3+ years’ experience as a Galera or Percona cluster Database Administrator in a production environment.
• Deep understanding of MySQL database architecture, administration, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with Galera or Percona Cluster.
• Experience with data migration, backup, restore and recovery, resolving performance issues, blocking and deadlocks.
• Experience in implementing and monitoring MySQL Cluster to provide high availability for mission critical events, database mirroring, replication, and log shipping.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or Perl for automation tasks.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of one or more UNIX-like operating systems (server-side).
• Experience with database security, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery planning.
• Familiarity with version control systems, such as Git, for managing database configurations and scripts.
• Exposure to the following would be advantageous:
  • Experience in the FinTech or financial services industry.
  • Experience from PCI DSS/PCI 3DS certification processes.
  • Familiarity with other cloud database technologies such as Aurora DB and Global Databases.
  • The FreeBSD operating system.
  • ZFS

Personality Attributes

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex database issues.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• Flexible, team player, goal-driven.
• Willing to take ownership of and proactively seek to improve on existing systems.
• Adaptability and self-motivation to excel in a mobile/remote-first team and company, demonstrating the capability to thrive in a distributed work environment while maintaining high productivity and communication standards.

About Nintex: 

At Nintex, we are transforming the way people work, everywhere.   

As the global standard for process intelligence and automation, we're trusted by over 10,000 public and private sector organizations across 90 countries. Our customers, from industry giants like Amazon, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft, rely on the Nintex Platform to accelerate their digital transformation journeys by managing, automating, and optimizing business processes quickly and efficiently. We improve their lives through the technology we build.  

We are committed to fostering a workplace that supports amazing people in doing their very best work every day. Collaboration is constant, our workplace is fun, the environment is fast-paced, and we value our people’s curiosity, ideas, and enthusiasm. Driven by passion and accountability, we take initiative, measure progress, and deliver results. Our culture fosters innovation and problem-solving, fueled by curiosity and a commitment to thinking big. Together, we move with agility, prioritize customer needs, and build unity through empathy, leaving a positive impact wherever we go.  

Working in engineering: 

Working at Nintex as an engineer means building more than just software; it’s about making a tangible impact with every line of code. Our engineers are process experts, developing the industry’s most complete process and automation platform to transform the way people work. If you’re interested, curious and want to learn and do more, the sky is the limit here. We take a solutions-oriented and collaborative approach, constantly innovating our business and products. 

About the role: 

As a Platform Security Engineer, you are a developing security professional building expertise in securing cloud-native infrastructure, container platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and product services within the Platform Engineering organization. You take ownership of moderately complex security tasks with increasing autonomy while receiving guidance on architectural decisions and strategic direction. Your focus is the security posture of our platform and product infrastructure — the container orchestration layer, service mesh, observability stack, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud infrastructure that engineering teams build and deploy on.  

You implement and maintain security controls, build standardized security processes for engineering teams (vulnerability management, production security checks, secure build pipelines), support penetration testing and SOC operations for the product environment, contribute to compliance-related activities from the product security perspective, and help embed security practices into the developer experience through tooling and documentation.  

You are building depth and maturity in infrastructure security, application security, and shift-left practices needed to progress toward a senior platform security role. 

Your contribution will be: 

• You implement and maintain security controls across the platform, including container orchestration security policies, network segmentation, role-based access controls, and admission control mechanisms. 
• You manage container image scanning and enforce image policies in CI/CD pipelines and cluster admission, ensuring only vetted and signed images reach production environments. 
• You support infrastructure-as-code security scanning using policy-as-code tooling, flagging and remediating misconfigurations in infrastructure definitions before they reach production. 
• You maintain and improve secrets management workflows, ensuring rotation policies are enforced, access is audited, and no secrets are hardcoded or exposed in source code or configuration. 
• You support cloud security posture management across cloud environments, monitoring for drift, misconfiguration, and compliance deviations against established baselines. 
• You support service mesh security configuration including mutual TLS enforcement, authorization policies, and traffic policies that enforce zero-trust communication between platform services. 
• You contribute to tenant isolation and access control configuration for shared platform services, ensuring appropriate segmentation between teams and environments. 
• You conduct vulnerability assessments of platform and product infrastructure components, coordinating remediation with SRE, Platform Engineering, and product service teams. 
• You maintain a vulnerability tracking system and produce regular reporting on security posture, remediation velocity, and risk trends for engineering leadership. 
• You implement and maintain security gates in CI/CD pipelines including dependency scanning, static application security testing (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and container image scanning. 
• You participate in security incident response for platform and product-related events, supporting investigation, containment, evidence preservation, and documentation under guidance from the Senior Platform Security Engineer. 
• You support compliance-related activities from the product security perspective, providing evidence, documentation, and technical validation for audits and assessments (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks) without owning the compliance program itself. 
• Vulnerability report generation, security posture dashboards, and remediation workflow tooling. 
• You contribute to security reviews for infrastructure and product changes, providing feedback on pull requests and architecture proposals from a security perspective. 
• You explain security concepts and requirements to engineering teams, empowering them to build securely and understand the rationale behind security controls. 

To be successful, we think you need: 

Minimum Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2+ years of professional experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, DevSecOps, application security, or related field. 
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (Azure or AWS). 
• Working knowledge of container orchestration security concepts in Kubernetes: pod security, role-based access control, network policies, admission controllers. 
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools and understanding of how to secure IaC workflows. 
• Understanding of CI/CD pipeline security: dependency scanning, SAST/SCA integration, artifact integrity.
• Understanding of security frameworks and compliance standards (SOC 2, ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks, OWASP). 
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash, Go, or PowerShell) for security automation and tooling. 
• Proficiency with programing languages ( C#, Javascript/Typescript).
• Experience with or exposure to penetration testing concepts, vulnerability management workflows, and security incident response. 
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain security findings and build standardized processes that engineering teams adopt. GitHub and/or Azure DevOps pipelines 

 What’s in it for you? 

Nintex has a hybrid working model, enabling us to build culture, learn, and grow together. We intentionally connect and collaborate, while emphasizing flexibility with a blend of at-home and in-office work. This role is a hybrid role in our local Nintex office.

While our offerings differ from country to country, we offer our entire global workforce an array of exciting perks and benefits, including 

• Global Gratitude and Recharge Days
• Flexible, paid time off policy
• Employee wellness programs and counseling resources
• Meaningful peer recognition and awards
• Paid parental leave
• Invention/patenting assistance
• Community impact, paid volunteer time, and opportunities
• Intercultural learning and celebration
• Multiple tools through which to learn and grow, and an incredible global community 

View more about our benefits here: https://www.nintex.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Global-Perks-and-Benefits.pdf.  

Equity Statement: Preference will be given to People Living with Disability who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Company.

About us: 

Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.

Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.

Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.

The role in a nutshell:

We're building teams to help us succeed in our mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system. As an intermediate engineer, you’ll be joining a group of highly motivated software engineers who you’ll work collaboratively with across our pods.

As a fast-growing company with offices around the world, you’ll immediately see how your contributions directly impact both our internal users and client experience. Many of the problems we are solving result in trail blazing solutions which can’t be found on Stack Overflow; so we’re looking for engineers who flourish working in a complex domain.

Your mission will be:

• Build distributed microservices that are accessed by 10m customers from across the globe.
• Design, build and maintain advanced applications services.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
• Write testable, maintainable code for robustness and reliability.
• Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
• Write code that directly affects users, the company and the Bitcoin ecosystem.

A little about you:

• Background in computer science in areas such as algorithms, data structures, and software design.
• Proven experience leading development efforts and guiding engineering teams through end-to-end project delivery.
• Extensive programming experience in Backend based technologies. Go(lang) is preferable.  
• A continuous improvement mindset.
• BSc/MSc/PhD in computer science or other technical discipline, or equivalent working experience.
• To be friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.

Don’t be put off if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see 

What stack we work on:

• Kotlin, Swift & Angular
• Go(lang), gRPC
• Kubernetes (EKS), Docker
• CloudFlare, CloudFront, nginx
• MySQL (RDS), Redis (ElastiCache), etc
• Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Jenkins

Life at Luno:

• Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
• Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
• Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
• Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
• 6 months primary care-giver leave
• Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
• Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service! 
• A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
• 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*

*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The Ideal Candidate

As part of our transformation journey toward quality automation, we are strengthening our Quality Engineering capabilities. We are looking for a pragmatic Quality Engineer who can take ownership of manual integration testing across multiple teams while also designing and evolving automated test coverage.

This role suits someone comfortable working hands-on across systems today, while actively driving automation maturity over time.

The Role

The Senior Quality Engineer: Automation & Integration Testing is responsible for ensuring high product quality across multiple teams, with a strong initial focus on manual integration testing between three development teams, alongside building and maintaining automated tests.

The role plays a critical part in validating cross-service workflows, identifying integration risks early, and progressively strengthening automation to support continuous integration and delivery. The engineer collaborates closely with development and product teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Own and execute manual integration testing across three development teams, validating cross service workflows, data flows, and end to end customer journeys.
• Design and execute risk-based test strategies, using manual and exploratory testing where automation is not yet feasible or effective.
• Define, build, and maintain automated integration and end to end tests, with a clear focus on gradually reducing manual effort through sustainable automation.
• Collaborate closely with developers to validate integration points, APIs, contracts, and system behaviour across environments.
• Build and maintain test infrastructure and utilities (test data, mocks/stubs, environment configuration) to support both manual and automated testing.
• Integrate automated tests into GitLab CI/CD pipelines, ensuring fast feedback, clear reporting, and reliable quality gates.
• Triage integration issues, automation failures, and product defects, providing clear diagnostics, root cause analysis, and high-quality defect reports.
• Continuously improve test coverage, automation stability, execution time, and maintainability as systems and team maturity evolve.

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• 6+ years of experience in software quality engineering, including hands-on manual testing, integration testing, and automated regression execution.
• Strong experience designing and executing manual integration and exploratory tests across distributed systems.
• 3+ years of Java experience building and maintaining automated tests.
• Hands‑on experience with Karate for API and microservice testing, plus mobile automation for iOS/Android (e.g., Appium) and web automation (e.g. Playwright, Selenium).
• Experience with modern test automation frameworks and tools such as TestNG, JUnit5, Cucumber/Gherkin, and build systems like Maven.
• Strong CI/CD experience running automation in pipelines (GitLab pipelines/runners).
• Daily working knowledge of Git based repositories and modern SDLC practices.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
• Experience using AI assisted tools (e.g., GitLab Duo, Copilot, LLM based assistants) with strong validation of outputs.
• Strong 10101 analytical and problem-solving skills.

Personality Attributes

• Positive, professional attitude with excellent written and verbal English communication skills.
• Collaborative and supportive; effective working with cross functional teams.
• Self-starter, with strong ownership in an autonomous environment.
• High attention to detail and consistent adherence to defined processes.
• Comfortable working to deadlines in a fast-paced environment, both independently and as part of a team.

About us:

Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.

Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards. 

Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.

About the team:

The Cloud Security team at Luno is responsible for identifying security threats and improvement areas within our cloud hosted resources, and ensuring that we both strive to implement best practices everywhere and detect any deviations. This team works closely with engineering and IT operations to ensure the best security practices are followed in both areas of the business.

About the role: 

We're looking for a AWS Cloud Security Analyst to be a force multiplier across the organisation, someone who brings deep cloud security expertise, strong architectural thinking, and the confidence to challenge assumptions when needed.You’ll work hands-on across our AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD and developer environments, surfacing risks early, designing secure patterns, automating controls, and strengthening the foundational security posture that underpins a global crypto exchange.This is a role for someone who wants to build, influence, advise, and elevate — not just run scanners.

Your mission will be:

• Continuously assess and uplift the security posture of our AWS and Kubernetes environments through automation and secure-by-design principles.
• Partner closely with Engineering, SRE, and IT Ops to deliver practical, business-enabling security solutions — not blockers.
• Analyse existing infrastructure and microservice architectures, highlight systemic risks, and define secure patterns that scale.
• Lead security input across new projects from design → delivery, ensuring resilient architectures and guardrails are in place early.
• Develop proof-of-concepts, hardening strategies, and safe rollout plans for improvements.
• Strengthen detection and response capabilities by improving security telemetry, triage, anomaly detection, and automation

• Advanced AWS expertise — ideally with Professional or Specialty certifications.
• Strong experience in Kubernetes, cluster security, and containerised workloads.
• Background in Cloud Engineering / SRE / DevOps / Systems with strong security instincts.
• Proficiency in automation and scripting (Python preferred).
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and secure IaC patterns.
• A solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and the SDLC.
• A mindset that balances pragmatic engineering with strong security judgement.
• Curiosity, ownership, and a genuine passion for learning and improving systems

Life at Luno:

• Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
• Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
• Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
• Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
• 6 months primary care-giver leave
• Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
• Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service! 
• A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events.
• 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*

*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

The Ideal Candidate

The Lead Software Engineer: Cloud Modernisation will play a key role in advancing Entersekt’s transition toward cloud-ready and cloud-native architectures across the company’s SaaS product suite. This role combines senior technical leadership with hands-on engineering delivery.

You are an experienced engineer who is comfortable working directly within complex production codebases while also shaping architectural direction and modernisation strategy. You bring a pragmatic mindset when working with legacy systems and understand how to balance performance, cost efficiency, operational reliability, and delivery timelines when introducing cloud-native patterns.

The successful candidate will guide the modernisation of existing systems by introducing scalable architecture patterns, automation, and operational improvements while partnering closely with product engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, security, compliance, and product management teams.

Initial focus for this role will be the modernisation of Entersekt’s 3DS product suite, with patterns, architectural approaches, and enablement efforts expected to scale across the broader SaaS platform over time.

The Role

This is a senior individual contributor role operating at Lead Engineer level. The role combines architectural leadership with hands-on engineering execution and is responsible for defining and delivering the modernisation roadmap for key product systems.

The Lead Software Engineer will assess previous generation (heritage) components, design target-state architecture, and implement modernisation improvements directly in product codebases. The role will introduce modern engineering practices and cloud-native patterns while establishing guardrails, reference implementations, and repeatable approaches that product teams can adopt.

The position plays an important role in enabling a scalable SaaS operating model by improving automation, observability, deployment consistency, and tenant lifecycle management. Through close collaboration with engineering and platform teams, the role will help accelerate cloud-native delivery while maintaining strong operational, security, and regulatory standards.

Responsibilities

Modernisation Strategy, Roadmap and Architecture

• Define modernisation roadmaps for product applications, including target-state architecture for services, infrastructure, and data flows.
• Assess legacy components to identify modernisation opportunities, technical debt, and pragmatic remediation paths.
• Determine appropriate modernisation approaches including refactoring, re-platforming, or re-architecting based on performance, cost, risk, and delivery considerations.
• Contribute architectural insight to the modernisation business case and support financial modelling related to infrastructure and platform decisions.

Engineering Delivery

• Implement modernisation changes directly within product codebases, including refactoring legacy components and decomposing monolithic architectures.
• Introduce cloud-native engineering patterns such as microservices, event-driven architecture, containerisation, and serverless services.
• Identify and implement performance, scalability, and reliability improvements using observability platforms, cloud metrics, and logging tools.
• Develop reference implementations and engineering patterns that enable teams to accelerate modernisation across products.
• Drive code-level implementation decisions and ensure successful delivery of modernisation outcomes across multiple engineering teams.

SaaS Platform and Operational Modernisation

• Improve the operational and platform capabilities that support Entersekt’s SaaS delivery model.
• Reduce reliance on manual operational processes and bespoke scripts by introducing automation across tenant lifecycle management.
• Design and implement repeatable processes for tenant provisioning, configuration, and environment management.
• Improve onboarding speed for new tenants through standardised workflows and environment templates.
• Establish tenant-aware observability by improving consistency of logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and alerting across services.
• Contribute to multi-tenant architecture design, including tenant isolation and service tiering considerations.
• Improve deployment consistency through repeatable deployment patterns, automation, and safer release processes.

Engineering Standards and Governance

• Introduce practical engineering guardrails that support modern development practices including API-first design, event streaming, cloud-native storage, and container orchestration.
• Define and maintain architectural standards, patterns, and best practices for cloud-native development.
• Contribute to cloud governance initiatives and participate in architecture reviews that guide engineering teams through modernisation efforts.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Lead technical workshops, architecture discussions, and design reviews across product teams.
• Support engineering teams in translating modernisation objectives into practical implementation changes.
• Partner closely with DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Product teams to ensure modernisation initiatives align with operational and regulatory requirements.
• Build trust with engineering teams by introducing modern practices through collaborative design and working reference implementations.

Team Development

• As the modernisation programme evolves, contribute to shaping a small, specialised engineering capability that supports broader platform modernisation initiatives.
• Maintain a strong hands-on focus while helping teams adopt new patterns and technologies.

Success Measures (First 12 Months)

Success in this role will be measured by the ability to deliver meaningful modernisation outcomes across Entersekt’s SaaS platform while establishing scalable engineering patterns that enable teams to accelerate cloud-native delivery.

Key outcomes in the first 12 months may include:

• Completing a comprehensive architectural assessment of the 3DS product suite, identifying key modernisation opportunities, technical constraints, and priority areas for improvement.
• Delivering a modernisation roadmap and migration plan that clearly defines architectural direction, sequencing, and the associated performance, operational, and cost considerations.
• Successfully modernising at least one product or major product component, resulting in measurable improvements in system operability, maintainability, and performance.
• Reducing reliance on manual operational processes and bespoke scripts through the introduction of automated tenant lifecycle management and environment provisioning.
• Improving observability and operational readiness by introducing consistent logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting across services and tenants.
• Contributing architectural insights and cost considerations to the modernisation business case, supporting decision-making around infrastructure and platform investments.
• Establishing trusted working relationships with product and platform engineering teams by delivering working modernisation patterns and reference implementations that teams can adopt.
• Contributing to the development of a long-term platform architecture roadmap that supports modernisation across multiple products within the Entersekt SaaS ecosystem.

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• Demonstrated experience designing and delivering application modernisation programmes within AWS environments.
• Experience modernising applications through refactoring, re-platforming, or re-architecting legacy systems.
• Strong experience building and operating production systems using containers and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes (or equivalent platforms).
• Solid backend engineering experience with the ability to diagnose and improve performance, scalability, and reliability in production systems.
• Experience working with Java-based systems or comparable backend development stacks.
• Proven experience implementing modern architectural patterns such as microservices, event-driven architectures, and distributed systems.
• Experience improving operational maturity through automation, observability, monitoring, and repeatable deployment processes.
• 8+ years of experience in cloud architecture, platform engineering, or senior software engineering roles responsible for production systems.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence engineering, product, and platform teams.
• AWS certification is advantageous but not required.

Personality Attributes

• Strong bias toward delivery with a willingness to work hands-on in complex production systems.
• Pragmatic and comfortable working with legacy environments while introducing modern engineering approaches.
• Ability to influence teams through working solutions, reference implementations, and practical improvements.
• Systems thinker who balances architecture decisions with operational reliability, cost management, and security.
• Collaborative team player who builds trust across engineering teams through clear communication and inclusive technical leadership.
• Maintains accountability for delivering measurable outcomes while enabling teams to adopt modern engineering practices.

About us: 

Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.

Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.

Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.

The role in a nutshell:

As a Quantitative Software Engineer (Quant Dev) at Luno, you will design, build, and operate the high-performance systems and mathematical models that underpin our trading, pricing, and market-making capabilities.

You will sit at the intersection of quantitative research and production engineering, translating quantitative ideas, models, and strategies into robust, low-latency, production-grade systems that operate reliably in a 24/7 global market. Your work will directly impact liquidity, pricing quality, risk management, and customer outcomes.

Don’t be put off if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see 

What stack we work on:

• Kotlin, Swift & Angular
• Go(lang), gRPC
• Kubernetes (EKS), Docker
• CloudFlare, CloudFront, nginx
• MySQL (RDS), Redis (ElastiCache), etc
• Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Jenkins

Life at Luno:

• Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
• Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
• Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
• Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
• 6 months primary care-giver leave
• Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
• Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service! 
• A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events.
• 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*

*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Senior Software Engineer

Cape Town 

Hybrid working (2 days in the office) 

Based on the Cape Town beachfront – a breathtaking expanse of white sand and surf, against the backdrop of the world-famous Table Mountain – our Cape Town office is an integral part of LiveScore Group.

With strong collective expertise, the team in Cape Town pushes the boundaries of gaming design and development, always aiming to provide advanced solutions to complex operational challenges by delivering in-house gaming software of the highest quality to the LiveScore Group, every time.

At LiveScore Group, we’re the proud home of three of the most exciting brands in the sports and gaming world: LiveScore, LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet. This creates a fully owned and operated ecosystem that converges the two worlds of sports media and sports betting. We’re proud of the high ratings for our commitment to excellence and fuelling our fans' passion for sport, which drives us to the top.

We don’t just lead; we innovate. Our cutting-edge products and immersive experiences set the standard, but it’s our people who truly make the difference. Every day, our team embodies our values: adaptability, teamwork, a fan-driven approach, and an ever-curious mindset that fuels our ambition.

As we scale and continue to create a culture that allows all employees to thrive, we know we need the most talented people with diverse backgrounds, perspectives and skills. If you’re good at what you do, come and join us. The more inclusive we are, the more amazing experiences we can create for our users.

 We know that job descriptions can sometimes seem daunting, and you might not feel you tick every box. But, if you’re passionate about the role and have relevant experience, we want to hear from you!

The Role 

The Senior Software Engineer plays a critical role in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software solutions that align with LiveScore Group's strategic goals. This role directly contributes to business success by driving technical excellence, improving system performance, and mentoring engineering colleagues to build a high-performing engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities 

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable backend services using Java and Spring Frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, AMQP, Spring Security).
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex features or systems, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and business goals.
• Provide technical mentorship and promote best practices in coding, testing, and design, including conducting code reviews to ensure quality and secure coding.
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) using JIRA to manage tasks and track progress.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product and design, to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure timely delivery.
• Utilize Git (Github) for version control and effective collaboration through pull requests and branching strategies.
• Design and optimize relational database schemas, including writing efficient SQL queries and managing data migrations.
• Identify opportunities to improve system performance, developer productivity, and code quality.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and propose innovative solutions to technical challenges, contributing to internal knowledge sharing and tooling improvements.
• Support deployment and monitoring of applications in cloud or on-prem environments, ensuring reliability and performance.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Experience in Java, with experience in object-oriented design and enterprise-level application development.
• Extensive experience with Spring Frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, AMQP, Spring Security).
• Experience in using IntelliJ IDEA for efficient development, debugging, and refactoring.
• Ability to design and maintain normalized database schemas and write efficient SQL queries.
• Familiarity with AI tools to optimize workload and efficiently prompt AI tools for desired output.
• Analytical thinking and a solution-oriented mindset.
• A versatile individual with an appetite to learn and take on challenges.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to support team objectives.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with front-end frameworks such as VUE and Angular.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and cloud platforms (GCP).
• Write efficient SQL queries and manage data migrations, backups, and performance tuning

Our Tech Stack

• Backend: Java, Spring Framework
• Frontend: VueJS, Angular
• Database: MySQL, Mongo
• Cloud: GCP
• Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ
• AI: Copilot, AgentSpace
• Version Control: Github
• IDE: Intellij Ultimate
• Testing: Cypress, Postman

What can we offer? 

• Discovery Medical aid 
• 21 days annual leave 
• Discretionary Company Performance bonus 
• Thursday drinks in the office and socials

The Ideal Candidate

We are seeking a passionate software engineer who thrives on designing and implementing high-performance systems. You will be part of our Authentication Advice team, part of the Advice & Intelligence POD, working on cutting-edge technologies to process vast amounts of data and provide secure, real-time insights and advice.

If you are excited about cloud technologies such as AWS, designing high-performance scalable systems, and enjoy working in an agile environment while solving complex problems, you will be a great fit for this strategic role.

The Role

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building and enhancing products developed by the Authentication Advice team, which are crucial to Entersekt’s innovation pipeline. This team is responsible for processing requests reliably and at scale to improve the accuracy and efficiency of our risk assessment, authentication advice, and fraud detection systems.

You will take part in the development of secure, scalable microservices and influence technical direction, best practices, architecture, and design. You will assist the team lead and mentor junior team members and quality assurance engineers while collaborating closely with our cloud-based infrastructure team to build solutions that process and analyse transactions in real time, providing our clients with accurate risk assessments and guidance on effective authentication policies.

Responsibilities

• Develop, test, and maintain robust, scalable microservices that process large volumes of requests in real time.
• Assist in the design of new features, ensuring high-performance and secure implementations.
• Mentor and guide junior engineers in delivering high quality products.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement innovative, data-driven solutions.
• Work closely with DevOps to ensure smooth deployment and scaling of microservices in cloud environments (AWS).
• Drive architectural improvements for high-performance, fault-tolerant systems.

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• 5+ years of experience with general-purpose programming languages such as Java, Python, or Golang. Golang experience is preferred.
• Proven track record of mentoring junior team members.
• Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS. Familiarity with key AWS services such as EKS, Aurora, Lambda, S3 and API Gateway, and experience deploying and managing applications in cloud environments.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm, for managing microservices-based architectures.
• A strong understanding of software architecture, with experience building and scaling microservices for high-performance environments.
• Familiarity with security best practices, including knowledge of cryptography, public key infrastructure (PKI), and secure system design.
• Experience with automated testing, including unit, integration, and performance tests, to ensure software quality and stability.
• Agile experience: familiarity with Scrum or Kanban methodologies, contributing effectively in cross-functional agile teams.
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is preferred, though relevant experience is highly valued.

Personality Attributes

• Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for finding creative solutions.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• A collaborative mindset and willingness to work as part of a cross-functional team.
• A drive for innovation, always looking to improve products and processes.
• Pride in delivering high-quality, secure, and efficient code.

About us: 

Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.

Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.

Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.

The role in a nutshell:

As a Lead Java Engineer at Luno, you’ll be at the core of our financial exchange transformation, through migrating and modernising our architecture to deliver resilient, high-performance trading systems. You’ll help design the backbone of our global exchange infrastructure, ensuring it scales reliably for millions of customers worldwide. Join us and make a tangible impact on building a new global financial system.

Your mission will be:

• Architecture Migration: Lead the design and implementation of core exchange services as we migrate legacy components into a modern, modular Java-based architecture.
• System Optimisation: Analyse and optimise matching engine, order routing, and settlement workflows for latency, throughput, and fault tolerance.
• Scalable Design: Contribute to a globally distributed, high-availability trading platform with a strong focus on resilience, monitoring, and observability.
• Collaborative Delivery: Work closely with product managers, architects, and fellow engineers to ensure features are delivered on time and aligned with business and compliance needs.
• Technical Leadership: Guide design patterns, performance tuning, and best practices in large-scale system development.
• Code Quality & Governance: Maintain high-quality code standards with strong test coverage, documentation, and adherence to regulatory and operational controls.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve system reliability, reduce technical debt, and streamline deployment pipelines.
• Mentorship: Coach and mentor engineers across the team, with a focus on scalable Java development and financial systems design.

A little about you:

• Proven Seniority: Proven experience as a senior or lead-level software engineer, with deep expertise in large-scale, distributed Java systems—ideally within financial markets, trading, or exchange infrastructure.
• Java Expertise: Strong proficiency with Java, JVM internals, concurrency, performance tuning, and frameworks such as Spring Boot. Experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.) is highly valuable.
• Financial Systems Understanding: A solid understanding of trading and exchange systems (order books, matching engines, risk management, or settlement workflows).
• Computer Science Fundamentals: Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, networking, and global-scale system design.
• Architecture & Technical Change: A track record of driving architectural change, including re-platforming or migrating legacy systems to modern, scalable architectures.
• Leadership & Collaboration: Strong collaboration, leadership, and mentoring skills, with proven ability to guide teams through complex system migrations.
• Customer & Compliance Focus: Ability to balance technical design with reliability, compliance, and operational governance in a regulated financial environment

Don’t be put off if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see 

Life at Luno:

• Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
• Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
• Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
• Enjoy peace of mind with Luno's comprehensive retirement fund and essential risk benefits.
• Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
• 6 months primary care-giver leave
• Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
• Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service! 
• A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events.
• 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*

*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Experience: 4+ years

Where the job is based:  Stellenbosch, South Africa

This role demands flexibility to work during UK hours

Who we are:

Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. At Kerv South Africa, we're not just another tech company. We’re the problem solvers, the magicians who transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. Utilising a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering, we create business solutions that truly resonate with our clients while driving extreme value!

With our roots planted in Birmingham and branches spreading across the globe from London to Bangalore, we're a proud member of the Kerv Group - a dynamic £112m revenue technology consultancy leader with a dedicated team of over 700 professionals, partnering with 800+ sector leaders.

People come first always.  We are incredibly proud of our unparalleled work culture. Not just words on paper, we wear our "Great Place to Work" certifications from the UK and India like badges of honour. Immerse yourself in an ocean of opportunities in an atmosphere that celebrates collaboration. Sharpen your prowess with a global multi-discipline team and be guided by the industry's most forward-thinking architects.

Primary Responsibility:

• Develop and maintain scalable, full-stack web applications using Next.js (frontend) and Node.js (backend)
• Build rich, user-centric interfaces that bring complex business processes to life through clean and responsive UI components
• Create RESTful using Node.js and TypeORM, with strong data modelling and performance in mind
• Write modular, maintainable code with comprehensive unit and integration tests, following TDD, using frameworks like Jest and Supertest
• Design and manage infrastructure components using Docker Compose, Terraform and deploy to AWS services (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, etc.)
• Translate UI/UX wireframes into functional front-end code with high attention to performance and accessibility
• Produce clear and concise technical documentation using DDD
• Collaborate with Engineers, Product, DevOps, and QA to ensure seamless end-to-end delivery
• Participate in code reviews, trunk-based development, continuous integration, and agile development practices

Essential Skills:  

• Strong experience with OO, enterprise integration, microservice and serverless architecture
• Strong experience with js or React.js, including SSR/ISR concepts
• Proficiency in js, Express.js/Fastify, and TypeORM or equivalent ORM tools
• Solid understanding of TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3
• Experience working with Docker Compose for local development and containerized deployment
• Comfortable using AWS services like EC2, ECS, RDS, and S3
• Strong knowledge of RESTful API design, error handling, and security best practices
• Experience with unit and integration testing using tools like Jest, Mocha, or Supertest
• Proficient using as Git, and CI/CD pipelines

Desirable Skills:  

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MariaDB, GraphQL, or MongoDB
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Biceps)
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum development practices
• Prior experience in building isomorphic/universal React applications
• Experience with mobile-first design or progressive web apps (PWAs)

We’re also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like; 

• Excellent English speaking and written communication
• Ability to identify and pick up new technologies and operating systems quickly
• Ability to work effectively with remote teams in different time zones
• Ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales

What we can do for you:

We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employees:  

Real Flexibility – we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our teams seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office. 

Awesome Environment – all of our employees will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work. 

Interesting Work – these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market. 

Recognition & Growth – Recognized as a 'Great Place to Work' in both the UK and India, our commitment to excellence goes beyond our products and services. Our culture is a testament to the dedicated technologists who work tirelessly to drive our vision forward. Being a part of Kerv Digital means embracing a culture of innovation, collaboration, and mutual respect. Our teams in the UK and India thrive in an atmosphere that promotes continuous learning and growth.

Join us at Kerv Digital, where we don’t just build ground breaking technology - we build future.

Don’t take our word for it though, check out our impartial Glass Door reviews

More on equality:

At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA.

Our Data Engineers are highly skilled in creating data pipelines for ingest, transformation and storage of data, usually at scale, and are familiar with standing-up analytics clusters.

This role involves using modern agile technical practices - including Continuous Integration and Deployment, TDD, and XP - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.

Responsibilities

• Working with the client and the team to determine data processing and access needs and how best to deliver them.
• Creation and support of highly available data pipelines and storage solutions (e.g. data warehouses).
• Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices.
• Automation of data infrastructure and deployments. 
• Advocating agile practices to the client organisation.
• Mentoring client team members.
• Helping improve the team and clients’ data capabilities.

Required Skills

• Significant experience working on data pipelines, platforms and projects.
• Experience in developing solutions in one or more of the main Cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Strong background in at least one programming language, Python or Scala preferable.
• Working with a variety of databases, data warehouses and distributed file systems in production environments.
• Strong experience in SQL and data modelling.
• Exposure with data processing at scale.
• Knowledge about GDPR and data security.
• Working with source control and infrastructure as code (Git/Github, Terraform, ansible etc.) and CI/CD tools.
• Understanding and being able to support data scientists or business intelligence teams - in data prep, mentoring and support functions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed

*This role is only open to candidates that are based in South Africa