SimplePay | Ruby on Rails Developers | Cape Town, South Africa | REMOTE
The story (skip this paragraph if you don't like stories in your job posts): I founded and continue to run this startup. Most of the team works from our office in South Africa. However, 4 months ago I moved to Singapore for work / personal reasons. I used to be quite averse to the idea of remote workers, but seeing as just about everyone will now be remote from my perspective, I decided it's a good time to start focusing on hiring for remote work. We’ve hired 3 remote developers so far and it’s been a great experience!
SimplePay is online payroll software for South Africa, Ireland, Singapore and Hong Kong. Our software lets thousands of small business owners (and their accountants) run their payrolls without headaches, so they can focus on the challenge of building their businesses.
Do you believe most SPAs are a pile of steaming crap, but wouldn't mind digging into Vue.js for pages that will benefit from the increased interactivity? Do you laugh when people give up the power of PostgreSQL in favour of data stores that don't offer any benefits for their use case? If so, you may fit in well with our mindset. The work will include: Doing direct integrations with banks that offer good APIs; Expanding our API for other systems to integrate with us; Adding new features; Optimising for performance; Integrating with government systems; Squashing bugs; Eventually, the opportunity to do some mobile development (probably using Flutter).
Experience: Due to our full pipeline, we can only hire developers who have a few years of Rails experience at this time, or polyglots who at least know Ruby. Previous experience with remote work would be a bonus - we need people who understand the challenges and can share what they've learnt.
Location: Most of the team is in GMT+2, and I'll be in GMT+8 going forward. So anything from GMT+0 to GMT+8 should be OK, unless you keep unusual working hours. We are a registered employer in South Africa and Singapore, so it would be hassle-free if you're based in those countries. If not, and if you've never done remote work for a foreign company before, please be sure to find out how to legally do this in your particular country (it may involve registering as self-employed, for example).
Please mail careers@simplepay.co.za and put "Hacker News" somewhere in the subject. I look forward to transforming the company to being more remote-friendly.
Mezzanine | JavaScript||Python||Java Developer | Cape Town/Stellenbosch, South Africa | Full-Time | ONSITE
We deliver mobile-enabled solutions to companies doing business in Africa. With an estimated 800 million mobile subscribers in Africa, we view mobile technology as a major enabler for economic growth. We're a subsidiary of Vodacom South Africa.
Our solutions cut costs, increases efficiency, improves risk management and provides unrivaled access to users across the continent. Mezzanine works with mobile network companies to provide solutions across multiple industries, with our main focus being Healthcare, Agriculture and Education.
Our platform is a centralized mobile and enterprise service environment that enables our clients with the deployment of vertical specific (e.g. health, agriculture, education) solutions. Once a solution is deployed on the platform authorized users can securely access it via the web (HTML5), a native application on a mobile phone, USSD and SMS. Our aim is to decrease the cost of delivering; and increase efficiency and accessibility to business services across Africa.
Our tech stack consists of JavaScript, a DSL for efficient CRUD, Java, Python and PostgreSQL.
Right now we are looking for people at any skill level - with any kind of technical background. We look for thinkers - individuals with good work ethic and willingness to learn new technologies and embrace the unknown. Note that we do allow some REMOTE days during the week, but you'll need to come into the office a couple days a week. Please only contact me if you're physically located in South Africa, as we currently don't have the capacity to assist with work permits for foreigners.
Let me know if you are interested - tk(at)mezzanineware(dot)com