Who we are

Rate’nDate Mobile (Pty) Ltd T/A RND Labs is a young at heart mobile technology and SaaS innovation company established in 2006.

We were one of the first companies in Africa to develop and market bespoke dating and chat services for mobile. We partner primarily with the Mobile Network Operators to bring these products to market. Our dating products have been used in over 12 countries by over 30 million people, generating in excess of 40 million page views per day.

As our business grew over the years we learnt that we needed to expand and become experts in the cloud (using primarily AWS) and our architecture has evolved into SOA and Microservices.

Today our development skills in building cloud native API services has evolved into exciting new verticals with SaaS product offerings in Direct Carrier Billing, Automated in-house System Monitoring, an Identity Extraction and Verification API and an App based Bot Detection and Removal Tool for Android devices.

Many of these services make use of exciting new tech like AI, Machine Learning, Big Data and Cloud services.

What we do

Mobile Web subscription services. Android Applications. WASP integrations into networks (Billing, SMS, USSD, Double-opt in). Fraud Detection. Image processing. Centralized service monitoring. Machine Vision. Document identification. Real person identification. USSD products. Data warehousing.

Why work for us

• Are you looking to be challenged and learn new technologies and skills?
• Are you interested and excited by working with products that simplify the world for customers?
• Does deploying systems in the cloud excite you?
• Are you curious about machine learning, machine vision and big data?
• Do you enjoy working on high scale projects, involving hundreds of millions of people?
• Are you interested in Fighting Fraud?

Our Culture

• Individualistic: Be yourself. Dress how you want to dress. Eat what you want to eat and listen to the music you like.
• Free thinking: Ask questions. Challenge and find new ways to solve problems.
• Tenacity: We don’t give up until we solve a problem.
• Quality: What we do, we do well.
• Passion: Committed in heart and mind. Maximum Effort.
• Accountability: If it is to be, it’s up to me, so get it done!
• Integrity: Be real. Innovation: New Ideas, Change, Experiment
• Productivity: Be focused. Move Fast. Use your time in a meaningful way.

Hiring Process

1. Phone Interview (5-10 mins)
2. Successfully complete an online questionnaire (15 mins)
3. Successfully complete a coding test at our offices (1 hour)
4. Face to Face interview with the team at our offices (1 hour)