Software Engineering - Platform Engineer; Intermediate

Electrum is a next-generation payment software technology company.

Since 2012, we've delivered trusted, enterprise-grade, cloud-native software to optimise financial transaction processing. Our deep expertise has established us as a respected partner in high-volume, low-value payment schemes, enabling clients to deliver services to millions of South Africans daily.

At Electrum, we are grounded in impact – designing solutions that matter, acting with urgency, and continuously learning as we scale. We believe in creating together – working side by side with our clients and teams to build meaningful, lasting solutions. We prioritise making it safe – encouraging open communication, smart risk-taking, and trust so that creativity and alignment thrive. And we back empowered strong teams – hiring brilliant people, collaborating hard, and holding each other to high standards while leading with empathy and kindness.

When you join the Electrum team, you’ll get to:

• Be part of the entire journey — from the spark of an idea to the final product launch.
• Grow your skills through world-class training and hands-on learning every day.
• Receive mentorship and guidance from industry leaders who are invested in your success.
• Work in a dynamic, innovative workplace where collaboration and creativity thrive.
• Tackle real-world customer challenges and see the impact of your work firsthand.
• Explore plenty of opportunities to grow your career and expand your expertise.
• Gain valuable experience in a leading Fin Tech environment, contributing to meaningful, high-impact projects.

The Role
Are you passionate about building the foundational infrastructure that powers modern software development? Electrum is seeking a Platforms Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and resilient platforms that support the development, deployment, and operation of applications across the organisation. In this role, you'll enable engineering teams by automating infrastructure, optimising CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring platform reliability and performance. You'll play a key role in driving Platform Engineering best practices, improving developer productivity, and fostering operational excellence through infrastructure-as-code and modern tooling.

If you thrive in complex environments and are motivated by the opportunity to create impact at scale, we’d love to connect with you.

• Experience in Agile / Scrum methodologies.
• An understanding of AWS/Cloud services and best practices, e.g. the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

• Kubernetes & Containerisation:
  Using Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, Helm & CI/CD to build & deploy & manage containerised workloads.
• Monitoring and Logging:
  Using tooling such as Prometheus, Loki, Grafana & ELK to monitor Kubernetes resources and Java workloads.
• Source Control & CI/CD:
  Making use of Git Hub & Github Actions for version control & CI/CD.
• Operating Systems:
  Making use of Ansible and AWS tooling to manage unix environments (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).
• Building, Collaboration & Communicating the IDP:
  Strong communication skills within a team environment with an ability to effectively document processes and mentor engineers on best practices and platform use.
• A Grasp of Backend Development:
  Hands-on experience in designing, developing, and deploying highly maintainable backend services using Java, and experience in writing scripts to solve ad-hoc problems.
• Cloud Infrastructure:
  An intermediate understanding of AWS/Cloud services and best practices, e.g. the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• Infrastructure as Code (AWS & Terraform):
  Experience using the AWS CDK & Terraform to write and manage infrastructure.
• Architecture and Design Patterns:
  Familiarity with common design patterns and architectural principles, including Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), and distributed computing architecture.
• Computer Networking:
  Knowledge/experience of core networking concepts, i.e. configuring computer networking policies, ip allocations, routing, dns, preferably with experience with AWS networking, i.e. VPCs, Subnets, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, Peering, VPC Private Link, Global…