Junior Software Engineer
Location: Cape Town, hybrid · Type: Permanent, full-time · Reports to: Senior Software Engineer
About Lesaka
Lesaka Technologies is a Southern African fintech building the connected ecosystem for financial inclusion — transactional banking, lending, insurance, payments and cash management for merchants, consumers and enterprise clients across the region. We're publicly listed (Nasdaq: LSAK / JSE: LSK) and growing fast.
EasyPay powers airtime, data, electricity, lotto and 600+ bill payments through the largest retail footprint in South Africa.
The role
We need a junior engineer to help build and maintain the systems that process millions of bill payments a day. You'll work close to production code from week one; fixing bugs, shipping small features and learning how a high-volume payments platform actually runs. This isn't a training-wheels role: you'll ship real code into a live system, with support from senior engineers around you.
What you'll own
- Build and ship small-to-medium features across the EasyPay payments stack
- Fix bugs reported from production and QA, from root cause to deployed fix
- Write unit and integration tests for the code you write
- Take part in code reviews- both giving and receiving feedback
- Investigate and help resolve production issues alongside senior engineers
- Keep documentation for the systems you touch up to date
What you bring
- 0-2 years' professional software development experience, or a strong portfolio from personal/academic projects
- Working knowledge of at least one modern language (e.g. C#, Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript)
- Understanding of relational databases and SQL
- Familiarity with Git and collaborative development workflows
- Ability to debug unfamiliar code and ask good questions when stuck
- A CS degree, diploma, or equivalent bootcamp/self-taught background
Nice to have
- Exposure to REST APIs or microservices
- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)
- Interest in payments, fintech, or high-volume transactional systems
Our culture — what we expect from you
Lesaka is a fast-paced fintech. The people who thrive here have a few things in common:
- Ownership: You don't wait to be asked. If something is broken or unclear, you call for the ball and fix it.
- Fast adaptation: Priorities shift, markets move, regulations change. You don't flinch — you re-plan and move.
- Execution mindset: Ideas are cheap. Shipping is the job. You walk slow, run fast: think it through, then move with urgency.
- Customer first: The merchant, consumer or enterprise client is why we exist. Your decisions trace back to them.
If you'd rather optimise a process to perfection over six months than ship something useful in six weeks, this won't be the right fit.
