What we do

Franc Group is a fintech startup based in JHB and CT (work is remote 4 days of the week with 1 day in the CT/JHB office). Franc is an investment app helping everyone to invest simply and smartly. The only decision a new user has to make is how much they want to invest and how this should be split between the 2 investment options. There is no minimum investment amount and users can withdraw their money whenever they want There is also a roboadvisory element to help non financial people make an informed investment decision. Franc recently won best financial solution at the MTN app of the year awards.

Why Work For Us

We want to make investing easy, accessible and fun. We use the latest tech and there is always different and challenging work to complete. We are looking to add new products and functionality to our existing offering and are looking to expand our team to help make this a reality.

Our Culture

We're a small team (20) of diverse skills ranging from machine learning, actuarial science, corporate finance, legal, compliance, accounting, digital marketing and asset management. Core team of 10 are full time with the rest part time/consultants. We are all passionate about startups and the problem we are trying to solve!

Our Engineering Processes

Our environment consists of a diverse range of open source technologies. Our mobile app (franc.app) is written in Dart with the Flutter framework. Our backend services are powered by Python while our internal tools are written in VueJS and Go. We are Data Driven (Bigquery and Google Analytics) and currently use Metabase as a Data Visualization dashboard.

We are language agnostic and believe in choosing the best tool for the job at hand. We manage an agile product development process with monthly app updates (aspiring for biweekly updates).

We are steadily maturing our DevOps capabilities using Docker containers and AWS ECS (Amazon’s Elastic Container Service) for container orchestration.

Our Hiring Process

We care about what you're already done and your ability to learn and solve new problems. We'll review your resume and past projects or if you're fresh out of the gates, we'll give you a mini-problem to solve. If successful you'll have three interviews, you'll meet with our CEO, CTO and head of Product.