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Overview

Ozow is a South African fintech founded in 2014 and based in Cape Town. Its platform enables instant bank-to-bank payments without cards. The service is used by major South African retailers.

News

News htxtafrica 5 months ago
Ozow offering BNPL thanks to new partnership - Hypertext
Ozow has announced a new partnership with Happy Pay that will enable its merchants to offer BNPL at checkout.
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News ITWeb 1 year ago
Ozow expands PayShap Request offering backed by TymeBank
Ozow expands PayShap request with TymeBank, boosting instant payments in SA for businesses and consumers.
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News TechCrunch 5 years ago
South African payments gateway Ozow raises $48M Series B led by Tencent
According to a 2019 report by Deloitte, about 80% of South Africans have a bank account but only 24% of them make more than three transactions monthly.
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News htxtafrica 6 years ago
Ozow to tackle financial inclusion with launch of Ozapp and PIN - Hypertext
The new Ozapp and Ozow PIN are being rolled out across the country today, as the payment platform brings more financially inclusive solutions to the fore.
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News ITWeb 7 years ago
i-Pay rebrands to Ozow, prioritises SME support
Fintech firm i-Pay becomes Ozow, and will for one year offer zero merchant fees to emerging businesses that process under R1 million in monthly transactions.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Ozow over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
39
Postings analysed
8
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
SQL
C#
JavaScript
Frameworks & libraries
Selenium
ASP.NET Core
CrewAI
LangChain
Databases
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
AWS
Azure
.NET
Databricks
AI & ML
LLM
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Full Ozow tech stack 39 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks

Growth

Hiring Momentum
82/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
9
6 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
126 days
faster than 11% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 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.
AI/ML
38% ▲
Security
13% ▲
Communications
13% ▲
Finance
13% ▲
Marketing
13% ▲
Sales
13% ▼
Actively hiring for AI/ML (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: Johannesburg Oct 2026
Added LLM Guardrails to stack Oct 2026
Added Context Engineering to stack Oct 2026
Added TeamCity to stack Oct 2026
Added Redis to stack Oct 2026
Added Octopus Deploy to stack Oct 2026
Added MS SQL to stack Oct 2026
Added Kubernetes to stack Oct 2026
Added JavaScript to stack Oct 2026
Added Azure to stack Oct 2026
Added .NET to stack Oct 2026
Added SIEM to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
3
Hiring now
2
Countries
1
Busiest office
Cape Town
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Cape Town South Africa
HQ
Cape Town, Foreshore
9 open roles 8 posted in 90 days 56% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for AI/ML, Data Science, Backend
seen since Sep 2025 careers board, job postings
Johannesburg South Africa
Engineering / R&D
Cape Town, Foreshore
3 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 100% engineering 10-50 est. staff
hires for AI/ML
seen since Oct 2026 job postings
Sandton South Africa
Regional office
Johannesburg, Sandton
careers board

Jobs

In office • 2+ years exp • Cape Town • Johannesburg
Python
JavaScript
SQL
C#
Embeddings
AI Agents
RAG
DevOps
Azure
CI/CD
Git
AWS
Management
Agile
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≈ $29k – $74k per year (Estimated) • In office • 7+ years exp • Cape Town • Johannesburg
Python
JavaScript
C#
.NET
AI/ML
Embeddings
AI Agents
RAG
Context Engineering
LLM Guardrails
DevOps
Azure
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Management
Agile
Apply
≈ $23k – $48k per year (Estimated) • In office • 4+ years exp • Cape Town
JavaScript
C#
.NET
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
MS SQL
DevOps
Azure
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
TeamCity
Octopus Deploy
Management
Agile
Apply
In office • Bachelor's Degree • Cape Town • Johannesburg
Python
SQL
C#
ASP.NET Core
Databases
PostgreSQL
AI/ML
LangGraph
LangChain
Model Context Protocol
Embeddings
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
CrewAI
LLM
RAG
OpenAI Agents SDK
Tool Use
DevOps
Rest API
Git
AWS
Docker
GitHub
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≈ $33k – $63k per year (Estimated) • In office • 5+ years exp • Cape Town
Python
SQL
Databricks
DevOps
AWS
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$48M
Latest round
Series B
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Series B 2021 $48M Details