Software Engineer - Reliability/SRE

Electrum

📍 cape town, western cape, South-Africa

Full-time Software Development Posted June 10, 2026

Job Description

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, creating together, making it safe, and backed by empowered strong teams.

The Role

As a Core Reliability Engineer, you will act as a central software team enabler. You will define the standards, observability tooling, and automation frameworks that enable our stream-aligned product teams to own their service health independently. Reliability in our FinTech niche involves processing high-volume, widely impacting financial transactions where a dropped message has real-world consequences. Your goal is to ensure reliable software is easy to build and that we ...