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We're dedicated to making payments more accessible, secure, and convenient for both businesses and consumers. As a fast-growing player in the financial technology sector, Ozow fosters a culture of innovation, diversity, and inclusivity. We believe in pushing the boundaries of what's possible and are committed to making a positive impact on the world through our payment solutions. \nMore about this Ozow fantastic position \nJoin the team building AI agents that automate real work across Ozow, from operations and support to fraud, risk and engineering workflows. You'll build, test and ship agent components alongside senior engineers, and learn how to put AI safely into production in a regulated payments environment.\nYour role and responsibilities\nAgent delivery\nShip at least one agent feature to production within your first 6 months, with evaluation tests in place.\nWork with product, operations and risk teams to understand the process an agent will support.\nBring forward ideas for new automation use cases, backed by the problem they solve.\nBuild and integrate\nBuild and maintain agent workflows: tool calling, retrieval (RAG), prompt design and multi-step task orchestration.\nConnect agents to internal APIs and data sources through secure, well-scoped integrations.\nWrite clean, tested code that passes review against team standards.\nQuality, reliability and safety\nWrite evaluation tests that check agent outputs for accuracy, reliability and safety before release.\nMonitor agents in production, triage failures and feed findings back into improvements.\nExplain the failure modes of what you've built and how they're caught.\nHandle personal and financial data in line with POPIA and Ozow policy.\nTool Utilisation + Change Management\nDocument how each agent works, what it can and cannot do, and where a human signs off.\nFollow Ozow's change, release and security processes for every AI feature.\nHelp business users adopt new agent tools through clear guides and demos.\nAutomation and AI\nUse AI coding assistants responsibly to speed up your own delivery.\nKeep up with agent frameworks, MCP (Model Context Protocol) and model releases, and share what's useful with the team.\nFlag manual processes that are good candidates for automation.\nYou are an ideal candidate if you have\nA degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\nSolid Python, and comfort working with REST APIs and JSON.\nHands-on experience building with at least one LLM API, shown through a project, GitHub repo or production work.\nBasic understanding of RAG, embeddings and prompt engineering.\nGit, and working knowledge of Docker.\nA careful approach to data: you understand why personal and financial data needs protecting.\nNice to have\nExposure to an agent framework (for example LangGraph, CrewAI or an agent SDK) or to MCP.\nAWS experience.\nC# or .NET, since much of our platform runs on ASP.NET Core.\nSQL (SQL Server or PostgreSQL).\nInterest in payments, fraud or financial services.\nYour skills and competencies\nYou eagerly embrace change, absorb cross-functional skills, and connect ideas across disciplines to drive fresh thinking and innovation. \nAbility to initiate, develop, maintain and leverage outstanding relationships to influence a wide network, both inside and outside the company. \nA trailblazer who steps up, takes charge, and creates meaningful impact-those driven by performance and purpose to lead from the front and make a real difference every day. \nYou thrive in collaboration, embrace inclusion, and bring a genuine curiosity for global cultures-valuing collective success over individual credit. \nDemonstrate strategic foresight, sound judgement, and the ability to make confident decisions under uncertainty, always working toward the best possible outcomes. \nYou challenge norms, champion innovation, and constantly seek growth-for themselves, their team, and the solutions they build. \nYou are a decisive doer-those who take initiative, follow through with confidence, and ensure results through courageous, hands-on leadership. \nWe value optimism, agility, and the strength to persevere under pressure-balancing performance with positivity, even in challenging environments. \nYou are driven, proactive individuals who take ownership, face challenges with grit, and consistently push for excellence-not just as participants, but as catalysts for success. \nInterview process \nDuring the interview process you will meet with the People team, the hiring manager, and relevant CSuite. Our process may include psychometric and technical assessments, giving you an opportunity to demonstrate your strengths, skills and potential beyond your CV and interview.\nIn office perks \nHealthy breakfast, lunches and snacks\nMonthly team connects \nOn-site Barista \nPerks for South African based employees\nMedical aid subsidy\nGroup Risk Insurance\nGenerous paid annual leave \nBirthday leave\nLearning and Development opportunities \nMentorship programme\nQuarterly team building \nCommunity initiatives \nAccess to cutting edge technology - Ozow Tech Stack\nOur Employee Value Proposition\nJoin Ozow and become part of an elite force that challenges the ordinary and achieves the extraordinary. If you're driven to make an impact, embrace challenges, and seek unparalleled opportunities for growth, your journey starts here.\nCompliance\nAs a fintech company, we prioritize data security, confidentiality, regulatory and compliance. Due to the sensitive nature of our work, we require individuals with a high levelof integrity and trustworthiness to ensure adherence to financial regulations and industry standards. Given the sensitive nature of our work, all employees are expected to demonstrateprofessionalism, accountability, and a commitment to ethical conduct in line with financial regulations and industry standards\nReady to be exceptional? 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