Job Opportunities at Electrum

What your first 0-6 months would look like:

• Within the first month you will be formally onboarded to all Electrum’s nifty practices, such as easy time logging and transparent emailing, and be immersed in the regular contact sessions of the professional services team. From month 2 onwards, you will start picking up some smaller projects; 6 months in you will be immersed into a development team and will be working independently on customer projects.

Requirements
What you’ll need:

• At least 2 years experience as a business analyst or similar role
• A university degree
• Strong analytical thinking
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
• Team player
• Attention to detail
• Self-managing
• Increase your odds by having:

A BA certification

• Experience in the payments space
• Experience working in agile development teams
• Benefits
• A good work-life balance is very important at Electrum. You know when your brain has switched off for the day and you need to go for a surf, but you also know when the code you have written is sloppy. At Electrum you will be expected to know when you deserve a surf and when you need to knuckle down and get the work done. For the more “knuckle down” days we make it worth your while with benefits such as:

Company getaways

• Onsite gym and shower facilities
• Daily cooked lunches and a stocked kitchen for the mid-day nibbles
• A rad coffee station where you can practice your cappuccino foam art
• Team socialising, hikes, getaways, and dinners
• Understanding that if an emergency comes up, family comes first
• A generous leave policy, starting at 20 days per year
• Flexible work hours
• A recreational area with foosball, table tennis and fatsaks that are perfect for naps
• We have created a safe, transparent environment where:
• We know mistakes happen, and that’s okay. We even have a 3 step approach to dealing with them:
• Tell everyone about it
• Fix mistake
• Tell everyone about it
• You are responsible for your actions – both the successes and the failures
• We talk openly about salaries and bonuses. At Electrum we believe it’s evident why some people earn more and others a bit less. It’s like being on a sports team where salaries are widely known.

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A typical day on the job

• Cruise to work (or perhaps wake up early for a hike with some coworkers)
• Have some morning chats over some barista quality coffee
• Check in with your team: help out by doing some coaching but also and get some mentorship
• Meet with a customer to workshop their requirements
• Write up some technical analysis to give to a junior developer to implement
• Grab lunch and catch up with the rest of the company in the rec room
• Squeeze in a game of table tennis
• Write some amazing code
• Grab another coffee
• Test your code with a customers team
• Maybe grab a drink with some team members after work
• See your solution go live at the end of the day (and test it again when you go to the grocery store and purchase the product you helped enable at one of our customers

Requirements

• 3 years experience in software development
• Anyone can write code. However it takes a bit of experience to write code that balances elegance, maintainability, efficiency and quality.

Be strong with Java

• Our backend systems are built on this. They are high performance systems that really require you to know what you’re doing in Java.

Be strong with JavaScript and React

• Our front-end tech is built on this. We need you to hit the road running and it might be embarrassing to show up on your first day and still need to be skilled up on it (but if you’re strong with similar frameworks, that’s also fine).

A university degree

• Any degree really. We need your proven analytical skillz here with the ability to work in high stakes (we’re working with other people’s money here!) and highly complex environments. The stuff we do has a material impact on the world and also therefore is high reward, but that also means it comes with high risk. You can’t always just learn it on the job. We need to know that you know what you’re doing.

Increase your odds

We’ll be growing you into someone that has the following skills which is why it’s beneficial to already have them:

• Full stack experience
• SaaS development experience
• Payments experience

Benefits

• Team beach getaways
• World class payments training
• Macbook Pro
• Highly competitive games of table tennis
• Showers and Towel Service
• Generous leave policy
• Tons of career growth opportunities
• Family style cooked lunches
• Great coffee
• Friday beer on tap
• Company gym

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Requirements

• Recruitment administration
• Develop and update job descriptions and job specifications
• Work with the marketing team to prepare recruitment materials and post jobs to appropriate job board/newspapers/colleges etc
• Source and recruit candidates
• Screen candidates resume
• Onboard new employees in order to become fully integrated
• Monitor and apply HR recruiting best practices
• Act as a point of contact and build influential candidate relationships during the selection process
• Promote company’s reputation as “best place to work"
• University degree/Diploma
• 1 + years IT recruitment experience (strong IT knowledge is essential)
• Proven track record of achieving monthly recruitment targets
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Benefits

• Team beach getaways
• World class payments training
• Macbook Pro
• Highly competitive games of table tennis
• Showers and Towel Service
• Generous leave policy
• Tons of career growth opportunities
• Family style cooked lunches
• Great coffee
• Friday beer on tap
• Company gym

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Your responsibilities:

• Schedule regular meetings and record decisions (e.g. assigned tasks and next steps)
• Break projects into doable tasks and set timeframes and goals
• Create and update workflows
• Prepare and provide documentation to internal teams and key stakeholders
• Retrieve necessary information (e.g. user/client requirements and relevant case studies)
• Track expenses and predict future costs
• Monitor project progress and address potential issues
• Coordinate quality controls to ensure deliverables meet requirements
• Measure and report on project performance
• Act as the point of contact for all participants

What your first 0-6 months would look like:

• Within the first month you will be formally onboarded to all Electrum’s nifty practices, such as our easy time logging and transparent emailing, and be immersed in the regular contact sessions of the leadership team. From month 2 onwards, you will start picking up some smaller projects; 6 months in you will be running our company-wide quarterly strategy setting and communicating initiative.

Requirements
What you’ll need:

• Work experience as a Project Administrator, Project Coordinator, Change Management or similar role
• BSc in Business Administration or related field
• Experience with flowcharts, technical documentation and schedules
• Strong MS Office skills, with good Excel & Word skills essential
• Knowledge of project management software (e.g. Trello or Microsoft Project)
• Strong administration skills and an eye for detail
• Highly organised and proactive personality
• A demonstrated interest in technology
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills

Increase your odds by having:

• Project management certifications
• Previous experience in a tech environment

Benefits

• A good work-life balance is very important at Electrum. You know when your brain has switched off for the day and you need to go for a surf, but you also know when the document you have written is sloppy. At Electrum you will be expected to know when you deserve that surf and when you need to knuckle down and get the work done. To help you manage your own time and energy, Electrum has benefits such as:

Flexible work hours

• Onsite gym and shower facilities
• Daily cooked lunches and a stocked kitchen for the mid-day nibbles
• Team socialising, hikes, getaways, and dinners
• A generous leave policy, starting at 20 days per year
• A recreational area with foosball, table tennis and Fatsaks that are perfect for naps

We have created a safe, transparent environment where:

We know mistakes happen, and that’s okay. We even have a 3 step approach to dealing with them:

• Tell everyone about it
• Fix the mistake
• Tell everyone about it
• You are responsible for your actions – both the successes and the failures

We talk openly about salaries and bonuses. At Electrum we believe it’s evident why some people earn more and others a bit less. It’s like being on a sports team where salaries are widely known.