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How Electrum hires

Truth index
A 92/100
Median time to fill
45 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
33%
Reposted roles
0%

Electrum scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 3 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 33% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 45 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Overview

Electrum is a South African software company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Cape Town. Its cloud platform handles payments, digital goods and card switching for banks. The technology processes transactions across Africa.

News

2017 article by Reuters
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Electrum over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
41
Postings analysed
9
Stack modernity
75/100
Languages
Java
JavaScript
Perl
Python
Frameworks & libraries
Angular
React.js
Vue.js
Databases
MySQL
PostgreSQL
SQLite
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Linux
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
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Full Electrum tech stack 41 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
75/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
5
2 opened / 4 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
45 days
faster than 30% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~6 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Backend
50% ▲
Frontend
13% ▼
DevOps
13% ▲
Product
13% ▲
Support
13% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added Service Mesh to stack Oct 2026
Added VPN to stack Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack Sep 2026
Added Service Desk to stack Sep 2026
Added ITIL to stack Sep 2026
Added Unix to stack Sep 2026
Added DNS to stack Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack Sep 2026
Added Docker to stack Sep 2026
Added CloudFormation to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Cape Town
Cape Town South Africa
HQ
5 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 80% engineering
hires for Backend, Product
seen since Oct 2025 company site, job postings

Jobs

In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Cape Town
Java
Terraform
Helm
GitHub Actions
CloudFormation
CI/CD
GitOps
ArgoCD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Platform Engineering
Service Mesh
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In office • Internship • Bachelor's Degree • Cape Town
Java
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≈ $26k – $77k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Cape Town
AWS
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Linux
Management
Agile
Scrum
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≈ $26k – $61k per year (Estimated) • In office • Contractor • Bachelor's Degree • Cape Town
Agile
Scrum
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≈ $24k – $50k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Bachelor's Degree • Cape Town
Java
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