Vacancies at PayFast

About you

You’d love working with us If you thrive working in a fast-paced environment helping meet the demands of our rapid growth. You will be involved in expanding our existing payment platform and supporting software and building new and exciting features and applications relating to payments, online commerce, fraud detection and security.

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you:

• Get energised by a fast-paced environment
• Enjoy a hybrid working model
• Cherish a good work-life balance
• Are adaptable and don’t mind a bit of chaos now and again
• Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done
• Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation
• Don’t need to be micromanaged
• Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement
• Welcome change and new ideas
• Value the importance of diversity

What you'll be doing

• Translation of business requirements into detailed designs for implementation
• Participating in estimation discussions with the product team
• Writing and debugging code
• Full stack, Back-end as well as Front-end development using the below technologies
• Testing and documentation of developed code
• Maintaining integration tests, unit tests and user acceptance tests
• Identify and close any potential security risks
• Refactoring code to improve quality
• Attending developer meetings, and participating in code reviews and quality assurance activities

What you'll need

• Minimum of 8+ years’ experience in software development
• Main Language Extensive Experience in .NET essential
• Knowledge of Java or PHP beneficial
• Experience in any or all of the following advantageousMicroservices and Web API integration
• JavaScript, jQuery, Node.js
• CSS, HTML
• Go (programming language)
• js (or similar frameworks)
• PCI - Data Security Standard
• AWS cloud
• Queuing technologies (RabbitMQ / AWS SQS)
• Docker
• Git
• Jira
• SQL
• Redis
• Broad understanding of coding, programming languages and frameworks
• Extensive understanding of Microservices and Web API integration
• Extensive knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle and corresponding agile methodologies
• Experience working on large-scale, scalable, and performance critical software projects,
• (ecommerce platform building experience is a plus)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, strong analytical skills, highly developed attention to detail, and an ability to work well in a fast-paced team environment

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About you

You’d love working with us If you thrive working in a fast-paced environment helping meet the demands of our rapid growth. You will be involved in expanding our existing payment platform and supporting software and building new and exciting features and applications relating to payments, online commerce, fraud detection and security.

You’ll fit in perfectly with our culture if you:

• Get energised by a fast-paced environment
• Cherish a good work-life balance
• Are adaptable and don’t mind a bit of chaos now and again
• Regard collaboration as an essential part of getting the job done
• Pride yourself as being a self-starter who doesn’t lack motivation
• Don’t need to be micromanaged
• Take feedback well and use it for self-improvement
• Welcome change and new ideas
• Value the importance of diversity

What you'll be doing

• Facilitate the implementation and updating of the Group’s Enterprise Risk Management and Operational Risk Management Frameworks and Programmes.
• Point of contact with Business and Support functions in facilitating and promoting the understanding of operational risk and governance matters; to implement a sound operational risk management framework.
• Support the risk owners and champions in conducting Risk Assessments (RA) of business and support units and for projects, changes or initiatives.
• Support the risk owners and champions to ensure that Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) reviews are appropriately and timely completed by the business and support units.
• Roll out of the RCSA process across the organisation and expand the risk identification and monitoring program.
• Perform process mapping exercise for key operational processes to support RCSA and control monitoring.
• Review standard operating procedures and process notes to identify procedural risks and recommend compensating controls.
• Providing and facilitating operational risk training and awareness to staff across the Group.
• Develop training materials on operational risk issues to enhance understanding on operational risk issues among the staff and conduct periodic training sessions and workshops.
• Second line of defence oversight of the business and functional units for the execution of BCM, testing exercise and assurance.
• Facilitate the implementation and updating of the Group Business Continuity Management (BCM) Policy, Group BCM Framework and Programme.
• Providing and facilitating BCM training and awareness to colleagues across the organisation
• Develop and maintain a crisis management plan to respond to disruptive events

What you'll need

• Relevant Bachelor’s degree in either Commerce / Risk Management / Information Technology
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in banking, financial services or payment services.
• Exposure to banking operations, payments, card operations, merchant acquiring operations with reasonable experience in process management, MIS and data analysis.
• Ability to interact with business unit managers and executives regarding mitigation plans, strategies, and progress towards recovery goals, contingency plans, and planning activities.
• Certifications in Risk Management / Technology Risk / CRISC will be added advantage.
• Good understanding of Operational Risk Tools like RCSA / KRI / Loss Data Management / Internal Controls.
• Good understanding of global risk management standards e.g., ISO 31000; 22301.
• Should have strong communication and negotiation skills, as well as solid presentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills used within a team environment.
• Pro-active and self-starter who can work with limited supervision.