Senior Platform Engineer
Lesaka Technologies Inc.|Posted 7 days ago
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Lesaka is a leading South African fintech company delivering financial services through proprietary banking and payment technologies across Southern Africa. We're seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer to join our dynamic team in Cape Town. In this role, you'll be at the forefront of designing, implementing, and maintaining robust containerization solutions, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure that power our high-performance applications. You'll champion automation and help instil a DevOps culture throughout our organization. You'll implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable releases while developing automated operational processes that drive efficiency. Working closely with our software engineers, you'll optimize application performance and reliability, implement infrastructure as code best practices, and collaborate with Cloud Engineers to ensure seamless operation between our Kubernetes clusters and cloud infrastructure. We're looking for someone with 5+ years of DevOps experience in fintech, strong proficiency in Terraform/OpenTofu, expert knowledge of containerization and orchestration (OCI runtimes and Kubernetes), and solid programming skills in Python, Bash, or Golang. Join us in making a significant impact in the FinTech industry as we deliver innovative solutions to our customers across banking, lending, insurance, and merchant services. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility with four days in-office and one day remote, fostering collaboration while respecting work-life balance. If you're passionate about automation, love working with cutting-edge technologies like ArgoCD/FluxCD and modern CI/CD tools, and excel at cross-functional collaboration, this is your opportunity to help shape the future of financial technology in Southern Africa.
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About Lesaka Technologies Inc.
Building and protecting financial wellbeing Lesaka is a South African financial technology company focused on serving the underserved. We deliver financial services to consumers (B2C) and merchants (B2B) in Southern Africa through our proprietary banking and payment technologies. We offer banking, lending and insurance solutions to consumers, and we offer cash management solutions, bill payment technology, value-added services, business funding and card acquiring solutions to formal and informal retail merchants.
We started our journey as Net1 in 1997. Since then, we have grown our systems and capabilities to deliver meaningful fintech-enabled solutions across the consumer and merchant segments. Led by a new leadership team with strong credentials and international experience, and following a comprehensive strategic review, we have entered a new era for the group with a new name introduced in 2022: Lesaka.
Lesaka, much like the “kraal” it is named after, is about building and protecting the financial wellbeing of the communities we serve. We do this by championing financial inclusion for consumers and merchants, opening them to new possibilities.
We are Lesaka For thousands of years livestock have been seen as a symbol of security, community and wealth. Protecting and caring for your livestock was central to preserving the dignity and pride of your community. To protect these animals, and the communities that depended on them, enclosures were built commonly known as “kraals” in South Africa. Because of their importance, kraals were built in the centre of a community and seen as the social and economic heart of the village. Only the most reliable people were entrusted with their care and protection.
As Lesaka, we are entrusted with the responsibility of building and protecting the financial wellbeing of the communities we serve. Our deeply felt awareness of this responsibility drives our choices and actions as we fight for the financial inclusion of every single South African.
Tech Stack
application and data
dev ops
