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About Electrum Software

Address
Riverlands Building 3, 51 Gogosoa St, Observatory, Cape Town, 7925
Company size
51-200 employees

Summary

Electrum is a next-generation payment software technology company.

Since 2012, we've delivered trusted, enterprise-grade, cloud-native software to optimise financial transaction processing. Our deep expertise has established us as a respected partner in high-volume, low-value payment schemes, enabling clients to deliver services to millions of South Africans daily.

At Electrum, we are grounded in impact – designing solutions that matter, acting with urgency, and continuously learning as we scale. We believe in creating together – working side by side with our clients and teams to build meaningful, lasting solutions. We prioritise making it safe – encouraging open communication, smart risk-taking, and trust so that creativity and alignment thrive. And we back empowered strong teams – hiring brilliant people, collaborating hard, and holding each other to high standards while leading with empathy and kindness.

When you join the Electrum team, you’ll get to: Be part of the entire journey — from the spark of an idea to the final product launch. Grow your skills through world-class training and hands-on learning every day. Receive mentorship and guidance from industry leaders who are invested in your success. Work in a dynamic, innovative workplace where collaboration and creativity thrive. Tackle real-world customer challenges and see the impact of your work firsthand. Explore plenty of opportunities to grow your career and expand your expertise. Gain valuable experience in a leading FinTech environment, contributing to meaningful, high-impact projects.

Why Join Electrum? We believe in a People First approach, ensuring a culture where you can thrive and make a real difference

Your Career & Culture

  • Career Growth: Delivering world-class financial software is
    challenging, but your effort will earn you hands-on experience with products used by millions, accelerating your career.
  • Strong Teams: We keep teams small, focused, and collaborative to maximize impact.
  • Transparency: We openly discuss strategy, finances, and salaries. Mistakes are viewed as learning opportunities that we actively discuss.
  • Autonomy: We trust you. You're expected to seek out the data needed for informed decisions and manage your own time—knowing when to focus and when to recharge.
  • Shared Vision: You'll have the power to shape the vision of how we build the future of financial services.

Practical Perks Here's how we support our culture: Generous Leave: Starting at 20 days per year. Office Perks (Cape Town): Fully-stocked kitchen and daily catered lunch. Social Life: Regular team activities like hikes, getaways, and dinners

Why are we hiring? Electrum is undergoing explosive growth and we're got an incredibly bright future ahead of us. We're looking for awesome hard working people to join us on this amazing adventure!

Perks at Electrum Software

Flexible working hours
Team getaways
World class payments training
Macbook Pro
Highly competitive games of table tennis
Generous leave policy
Tons of career growth opportunities
Family style cooked lunches
Great coffee
Shower and towel services

Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
MySQL
MySQL
Java
Java

utilities

Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch

dev ops

Ansible
Ansible
GitHub
GitHub
Docker
Docker
Maven
Maven
Vagrant
Vagrant
Kubernetes
Kubernetes

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Slack
Slack
Confluence
Confluence

Office Photos

Flexi hours so you can avoid beach traffic.
“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and table tennis; all the rest are merely games.”  Ernest Hemingway.  For realz
Climbing the career, uh.... ladder?
Great lunches, fruitarians welcome
You can have any workstation setup you like
We don't like too many meetings, but when we do we like to sit on couches.
Another workstation. Nothing to say here, move along...
Bored of writing photo descriptions now.  Why are you reading this?  Apply already!!!