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Life at Electrum
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

What you'll do

• Work as a Senior Developer / Architect at Electrum
• Be heavily involved in the architecture, design and development of Electrum’s payments software solutions
• Mentor and provide technical leadership to the entire Engineering organisation
• Play a visionary role in designing blueprints for solutions in the payments landscape
• Work in a technically challenging environment where the solutions you build require 99.99% uptime

Requirements

• At least 5 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.
• At least 2 years experience in the payments industry
• We know, it’s a pretty niche industry but it’s a difficult to design robust payments systems unless you’ve had some experience using them. Also, it’s hard to mentor junior team members when they have more payments experience than you.

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.

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 experience
• ISO8583 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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Life at Electrum
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.
• 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
A university degree

• Any degree really. We need your proven analytical skills 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.

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.
• 0 to 2 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.

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

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Life at Electrum
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.
• 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.

A university degree

• Any degree really. We need your proven analytical skills 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

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The Opportunity:

• This role is a great opportunity for a PM to join a high-growth tech company, and grow with our business. You will have the opportunity to gain deep domain expertise in the rapidly developing payments industry and play a key role in mission critical projects at some of South Africa’s largest corporates.

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 professional services team and will be independently running all projects for a specific customer

The Role:

• In this role you’ll act as a Delivery Manager within Electrum’s professional services team, coordinating software development and implementation projects. You will have the opportunity to contribute to refining our project processes and procedures. You will be the key point of contact for major customers (large banks and retailers) and will play a critical role in managing on-going relationships with them. The ability to manage customers, control complex projects, and build strong relationships is essential for this position.

Requirements
Your Responsibilities

• Coordinating full lifecycle software projects and ensuring that projects are delivered on time, within scope, within budget and of good quality
• Build strong relationships with customers and third party providers as well as internally with sales and engineering teams
• Guide the team to ensure the delivery plan is met
• Facilitate and run project meetings such as status updates and retrospectives
• Maintain and improve project process
• Be a customer advocate within Electrum
• Growing your industry knowledge
• Contributing to the on-going growth and success of Electrum

What you’ll need:

• Relevant degree
• 4+ years experience as a PM or similar role on software projects
• Background in tech/information technology industry
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills

Increase your odds by having:

• Prince 2, PMP or Agile training will be advantageous
• Familiarity with transaction processing concepts such as payments, reconciliations, core banking or retail systems

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 status report 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:

• 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
• Understanding that if an emergency comes up, family comes first
• Flexible work hours
• A recreational area with foosball, table tennis and fatsaks that are perfect for naps

To make sure that we stay a tight knit team, but still get to that surfing we have benefits such as:

• Company getaways
• Team socialising, hikes, getaways, and dinners

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:
1- Tell everyone about it
2 - Fix mistake
3 - 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.