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About Luno

Address
De Waterkant, Cape Town & Sandton, Johannesburg
Company size
501-1000 employees

Highlights

Luno is on a mission to build a world-class tech team through OfferZen.

Luno is committed to drive growth and innovation in the tech community.

How Luno Uses Data to Make Product Decisions

We chatted to Luno's data scientist Gorden Jemwa about the data tools the online wallet provider relies on and how data impact their business decisions.

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Scaling With Bitcoin: Automating Identity Verification

2017's Bitcoin excitement was not an easy win for Luno: Our identification verification didn't scale quite as fast as the bubble. Here's how we solved that.

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Interview with Neil Kelly, Luno: Thoughts On Emigrating SA as a Dev

Neil Kelly, Luno's Director of Engineering, has first-hand experience with emigration as a dev. He shares some thoughts if you're considering doing the same.

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Summary

What we do:

We make it safe and easy to buy, store and learn about cryptocurrencies, like Bitcoin and Ethereum, offering three core products:

  • Luno Wallet: Cryptocurrency conversion, storage, and consumer payments
  • Luno Exchange: Professional cryptocurrency trading platform
  • Luno Enterprise: Open API’s, institutional investors, merchant integration

Why Luno?

  • You’ll be part of a team of skilled and passionate people on a serious mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system!
  • We make it safe and easy to buy, store and learn about cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
  • We currently have over 9 million customers across 40 countries.
  • We're part of the Digital Currency Group, a group of companies driving progress in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space that includes Grayscale, Genesis, Coindesk and Foundry Services.
  • Our platform has processed over $21 billion to date.
  • We’re proud to be one of the world’s most international cryptocurrency teams from 43 different nationalities — working across South Africa, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Malaysia, Nigeria and Singapore. Financial inclusion is part of our mission, but on a deeper level, inclusion is a way of life, and a way of work for us. It is part of who we are as a company, and a group of human individuals.
  • We value autonomy over micromanagement.
  • We are truly agile - CI/CD.

Interview Process

  1. Screening Call (Google Meets)
  2. Tech Assessment/Take home project
  3. Interviews
  4. Reference and background checks (with your consent)
  5. Offer

Culture

At Luno we’re extremely proud of the culture and values we have built over the past seven years and continue to live today. To us, our culture and values describe how we Lunauts do things at Luno and how we ensure our success, collectively referred to internally as ‘Moontality’. ⛰️ Think big ⬆️ Raise the bar 🙏 Be humble 🏆 Win together 💡 Keep it simple 🏃 Move fast 🚢 Take ownership 🤝 Build trust

Perks at Luno

Free snacks and good coffee
Great office environment
Office Playstation 4 + Nintendo Switch
Medical Aid
Flexible Hours
Catered lunch, Mon-Thurs
Access to online learning
Pawternity, Maternity, Paternity Leave
Global Experience

Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
AngularJS
AngularJS
Objective-C
Objective-C
Javascript
Javascript
MySQL
MySQL
Java
Java
Swift
Swift
Go
Go
Kotlin
Kotlin

utilities

Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Looker
Looker

dev ops

Papertrail
Papertrail
Bugsnag
Bugsnag
Git
Git
Docker
Docker
Android Studio
Android Studio
Xcode
Xcode

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Slack
Slack
Trello
Trello
Greenhouse
Greenhouse

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