Overview
Senior Software Engineer Integration Jobs in Cape Town, South Africa at Peach Payments
Position: Senior Software Engineer [Payments Integration]
Senior Software Engineer [Payment Integrations Pod]
About Peach Payments
Peach Payments is a cutting-edge fintech company shaping the future of digital payments across Africa. We empower businesses of all sizes – from startups to enterprise merchants – by providing a secure, scalable, and seamless payments infrastructure.
We have a hybrid working environment
We offer a hybrid work environment, allowing for a combination of remote and in-office work. Whilst there is currently no in-office requirement for this team, this may change periodically, as determined by your manager or the organisation
Mission:
Why This Role Exists
In the Payment Integrations team we manage the connection between alternative payment methods and the Peach Payment ecosystem. We build integrations for the bigger payment methods ourselves and support smaller partners in integration into our APIs. We are always looking for ways to automate and improve our system, while we extend our product offering and allow for more ways for customers to pay across Africa.
Our Tech Stack
Languages:
Python
Infrastructure: AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Serverless)
Databases:
Mongo
DB, MySQL
Tools:
Jira, Confluence, Git, Postman, Cypress
CI/CD & Automation:
Git Lab Pipelines
Monitoring:
Grafana / Sentry
Role expectations
Successfully complete development tasks for payment integrations
Design, build, and integrate technical requirements alongside the team on inflight and new payment integrations
Ensure secure, scalable, and compliant processing.
Effective Troubleshooting and Debugging of Payment Integration issues
Independently diagnose and propose solutions for issues and incidents, leveraging logs, monitoring, and code analysis
Competencies:
What You Bring
Technical Expertise:
6+ years of experience in cloud-based backend engineering
Strong experience with Python
AWS expertise (Lambda, API Gateway, Serverless)
Database experience (MySQL, Mongo
DB)
Bonus – Experience with Payment Integrations
Problem-Solving & Ownership:
Ability to design elegant, scalable solutions for new payment integrations.
Takes initiative, owns projects end-to-end, and thrives in a fast-paced, high-scale environment.
Collaboration & Communication:
Works well in a fully remote team, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
Comfortable working cross-functionally with product, operations, and external partners.
Why Join Peach Payments?
Impact:
We unlock seamless payment experiences, by empowering African businesses to effortlessly accept digital payments anywhere.
Growth:
Be part of a fast-growing company expanding across Africa.
Culture:
Join a high-performance and empathetic culture, valuing diversity, respect for people, commitment to customers and continuous learning.
Flexibility:
Hybrid working – work from anywhere, while staying connected to a world-class team
Benefits – Benefits include a generous annual and life leave allocation, market related salaries, owning the piece of the Peach pie through VSOP and more
Be part of our journey to redefine digital payments in Africa!
At Peach Payments we value diversity and are committed to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experiences.
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Title: Senior Software Engineer Integration
Company: Peach Payments
Location: Cape Town, South Africa
Category: Software Development (Software Engineer, Backend Developer, Cloud Engineer – Software, Full Stack Developer)
