
LiveScore Group · Cape Town
Senior Software Engineer Cape Town Hybrid working (2 days in the office) Based on the Cape Town beachfront – a breathtaking expanse of white sand and surf,...
Senior Software Engineer
Cape Town
Hybrid working (2 days in the office)
Based on the Cape Town beachfront – a breathtaking expanse of white sand and surf, against the backdrop of the world-famous Table
Mountain – our Cape Town office is an integral part of LiveScore Group.
With strong collective expertise, the team in Cape Town pushes the boundaries of gaming design and development, always aiming to
provide advanced solutions to complex operational challenges by delivering in-house gaming software of the highest quality to the
LiveScore Group, every time.
At LiveScore Group, we’re the proud home of three of the most exciting brands in the sports and gaming world: LiveScore, LiveScore
Bet and Virgin Bet. This creates a fully owned and operated ecosystem that converges the two worlds of sports media and sports
betting. We’re proud of the high ratings for our commitment to excellence and fuelling our fans' passion for sport, which drives
us to the top.
We don’t just lead; we innovate. Our cutting-edge products and immersive experiences set the standard, but it’s our people who
truly make the difference. Every day, our team embodies our values: adaptability, teamwork, a fan-driven approach, and an
ever-curious mindset that fuels our ambition.
As we scale and continue to create a culture that allows all employees to thrive, we know we need the most talented people with
diverse backgrounds, perspectives and skills. If you’re good at what you do, come and join us. The more inclusive we are, the more
amazing experiences we can create for our users.
We know that job descriptions can sometimes seem daunting, and you might not feel you tick every box. But, if you’re passionate
about the role and have relevant experience, we want to hear from you!
The Role
The Senior Software Engineer plays a critical role in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software solutions that
align with LiveScore Group's strategic goals. This role directly contributes to business success by driving technical excellence,
improving system performance, and mentoring engineering colleagues to build a high-performing engineering culture.
Key Responsibilities
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What can we offer?
SENIOR FULL STACK ENGINEER THE ROLE - WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING? KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES * Join a rapidly growing team to help BCB build and scale our products and deliver them to clients. * Use your software engineering skills to develop, test, release, support and maintain complex financial platforms. Our backend is written in Node driven by SQL databases and our front-end uses the Angular framework. All our services run in google cloud in Kubernetes. * Work closely with product managers to focus on new feature design, build and ship scalable products. SO, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? * 5+ Years Experience in software engineering. * Experience working with microservices and distributed systems architecture. * Expert proficiency in server-side development. * Proficiency in TypeScript. * Experience with event-driven architecture and message queuing systems, ideally Google Pub/Sub, Kafka. * Experience with Node.JS and server frameworks, ideally NestJS. * High level expertise in SQL development and database programming: MySQL/PostgreSQL. * Good working knowledge of front-end frameworks, ideally Angular. * Knowledge of Cloud Platforms, ideally Google Cloud.. * Expertise in automated testing at unit, integration and system level. * Experience with CI/CD platforms, ideally gitlab. * Experience in Fintech/Banking is highly desirable. * Take ownership of key architectural decisions and contribute to the technical roadmap. * Mentor junior engineers and champion best practices within the team. WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? Our people are constantly striving to be the best through operational excellence. The professional development and learning opportunities create an agile, hardworking, conscientious, and knowledgeable team. The opportunities for personal growth are exponential. You grow as the business grows. The roles and responsibilities are broad and ever-changing, and the dynamism of BCB keeps you engaged and highly motivated. At BCB, you don’t just work for your manager; they work for you too. We believe in empowering individuals to create a culture of personal growth, together. We focus on driving empowerment from the bottom up, up-skilling every individual at every level. This means our team has a sense of commonality and belonging, driven by a shared belief in our mission. We’re passionate about our business, our people, and providing 360-degree support for success. * The chance to operate at the forefront of our industry * You can talk to anyone in the business as there are no barriers and everyone is accessible * You will be collaborating with teams on a hybrid working arrangement * We value team success where every individual can grow and prosper * 30 days annual leave each year, excluding bank holidays * 4 wellbeing days per year to prioritise your mental health * 1 company volunteering day per year * Strong benefits package including; Private Healthcare, Pension, Income Protection (long-term absence), Life Insurance, Menopause Policy, and an enhanced Parental Leave policy ABOUT BCB GROUP BCB Group is a leading provider of regulated payment and trading services in crypto and fiat for the digital asset economy. We provide accounts, cryptocurrency and foreign exchange market liquidity for some of the world’s largest, crypto-engaged businesses, including crypto exchanges, liquidity providers, market makers, investment firms, custodians, payment processors and wallet providers. Our end-to-end suite of products are accessible through our Client Console UI and API. We offer more than 40 fiat and cryptocurrencies, deep trading liquidity, 24/7 instant payments through our instant settlements network, BLINC, and secure crypto services. Our strong focus on compliance matches our technical and business expertise, and we are regulated by some of the world’s most respected regulators. Authorised in the UK, France and Switzerland, we place the utmost importance on our regulatory-first institutional principles. Our leadership team boasts years of relevant, high-level experience at globally-renowned institutions. They combine finance, law, regulatory and technology skills in traditional and crypto financial services with a deep understanding of the new digital asset economy. Our mission is to create the trusted platform to pay, store, trade and earn fiat and digital assets, globally 24/7 www.bcbgroup.com
INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER Cape Town Hybrid working (On-site Tuesday and Thursday) Based on the Cape Town beachfront – a breathtaking expanse of white sand and surf, against the backdrop of the world-famous Table Mountain is our newest addition to LiveScore Group – Wonderlabz. With a strong legacy collective expertise, the team in Cape Town push the boundaries of gaming design and development, always aiming to provide advanced solutions to complex operational challenges delivering inhouse gaming software to LiveScore Group of the highest quality, every time. LiveScore Group is home to LiveScore, LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet and now Wonderlabz - four of the most exciting brands in the sports and gaming industries today. We are passionate and excited about what we do in the Sports Media, Gaming and Betting sector and are proud of the high ratings we have achieved. We live our values, aiming to enhance and increase the enjoyment of sport through innovative products and immersive experiences. Trust is important in how we work, ensuring we are a collaborative unit who holds each other accountable. Relentlessly ambitious in everything we do, we embrace change and understand that failure is part of success. We use our platform for positive social change and work to build a company our employees are proud to work for. We have a long-term commitment to diversity and inclusion. Our I.D.E.A (Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, Awareness) Forum is critical to our business and is embedded in our organisational structure to support a sense of belonging for everyone and to create a culture that allows all employees to thrive. The Role The Infrastructure Engineer’s role is to administer the Online Gaming platforms, ensure optimum performance and availability of such platform, provide third/fourth-level troubleshooting support, and liaise with all applicable service providers and third parties including NOC/1st/2nd line support. Provide technical support to all roles. Key Responsibilities * Partake in the design and implementation of new setups * Assist in process improvement and automation. * Test and design new systems/services and their suitability for possible use in production environments * Proactive monitoring and support of the live and staging infrastructure * Investigate and react to any live or staging issues that might arise * Prepare and take part in the periodic release of new software * Act as an escalation point for issues flagged by customer support * Handle service requests, incidents, problems and change requests, using ITIL best practice. * Assist in process improvement and automation. * Assist in intensive investigations into problems that would included detailed log and metrics analysis to provide detailed analysis, resolution and future prevention of such issues Skills, Knowledge and Experience * All-rounder with proven experience in linux based environments with very good IT knowledge * Possess excellent communication skills, capable of delivering information to both technical as well as non-technical personnel, the ability to work autonomously and in a team environment * Detect/analyse alarms to provide fault isolation and remote troubleshooting, being a responsible individual for problems until their complete resolution * Ability to analyse logs for troubleshooting issues, including malicious activity or cybersecurity threats, code and systems errors and problems * Understands how to direct, support and guide other team members and knows how to motivate them with great attention to detail and acts as a senior technical resource for outages until restoration. * Production support or implementation of Kubernetes, preferable in google managed Kubernetes environment (GKE) for at least 24 months * Virtualisation - OpenStack, VMware, Cloud - Experience with any: Google GKE, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, OpenShift/OKD * Excellent log analysis and setup of aggregated logging systems such as Splunk/EFK and excellent networking skills including packet capture and analysis * Excellent monitoring and metrics analysis and systems implementation such as Grafana, APM, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc… with deep knowledge of various monitoring tools and excellent problem-solving skills * Experience with code repositories GitHub/Gitlab, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles and DNS/HTTPS certificates What can we offer? * Discovery medical aid * 21 days leave * Discretionary company performance bonus
S-RM is recruiting a Senior DevOps Engineer to play a key role in the development and maintenance of products for our Corporate Intelligence team. WHO ARE WE S-RM is a global intelligence and cyber security consultancy. Since 2005, we’ve helped companies, governments and private individuals solve some of their most complex challenges. We’ve been able to do this because of our outstanding people. We’re committed to developing bright, curious, enthusiastic people who want to think critically, solve complex problems, and achieve success. But we also know that work isn’t everything. It’s about the lives and careers it helps us build. We’re immensely proud of this culture and we invest in our people’s wellbeing, learning, and ideas every day. We’re excited you’re thinking about joining us. THE ROLE This role will be working as part of a larger software team supporting our Corporate Intelligence team in the development of complex intelligence software products. We expect that the following will be component of the key responsibilities for this position: * Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS, supporting multiple product teams with differing needs. * Own infrastructure as code using Terraform, ensuring environments are reproducible, version‑controlled, and well‑documented. * Architect, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to support build, test, and deployment workflows. * Collaborate closely with development teams to improve deployment reliability, speed, and automation. * Own observability and monitoring practices, ensuring meaningful metrics, dashboards, logs, and alerts are in place. * Embed security best practices into infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and runtime environments. * Keep up to date with DevOps, cloud, and AWS best practices, tooling, and emerging technologies. * Take ownership of complex problems end‑to‑end, from design through to production support. WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR We think candidates with the following skills and experience are likely to succeed as a Senior DevOps Engineer at S-RM. That said, if you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box—we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others. We’re looking for someone that is able to adapt to change and work comfortably in a fast-paced environment, this person will have some or all of these skills: * Degree level education in a computer science, maths or related numerate subject, OR equivalent practical experience. * Proven experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer or similar role, supporting multiple product or engineering teams. * Strong hands‑on experience with AWS (e.g. EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC, S3, OpenSearch, CloudWatch) in production environments. * Extensive experience using Terraform to manage infrastructure as code, including module design and environment separation. * Solid experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. * Strong observability and monitoring experience, including metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards. * Good understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking fundamentals, and cloud security best practices. * Experience with containerisation and orchestration (e.g. Docker, ECS, Kubernetes). Any of the following personal skills would be very beneficial in this position: * Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a small, agile team. * Well‑organised with strong attention to detail, particularly in automation and infrastructure changes. * Delivery‑focused, balancing speed with reliability and long‑term maintainability. * A proven ability to work from idea to a working feature. * Able to evaluate new technologies pragmatically rather than adopting trends for their own sake. * Strong communication skills, with ability to communicate with business stakeholders to understand the problems and contribute to technical discussions. The successful candidate must have permission to work in South Africa by the start of their employment. BENEFITS We offer thoughtful, balanced rewards and support to help our people do their best work and live their lives outside it, this includes but is not exhaustive of: * 23 days holiday per year in addition to bank holidays (+1 day for every day of service up to a maximum of 28 days); * Matching pension contribution up to 7% (up to a maximum of 14% combined), and financial education; * Hybrid working and flexible working hours Parental Support: * Fertility treatment leave – 5 days of leave per cycle of treatment per year; * Maternity leave – 26 weeks of full pay followed by 13 weeks of half pay; * Paternity leave – 6 weeks of full pay. Various Health and Medical Benefits including: * Medical Aid and Gap Cover Policy (taxable benefit) for you and your family; * Free access to the world-famous mindfulness app Headspace; * EAP programme for you and your immediate family. THE APPLICATION PROCESS To apply for this role, please send an up-to-date CV to Job Application for DevOps Engineer at S-RM The application process will include: 1. A preliminary call, which will be a chance for you to find out more about S-RM and the role. 1. First Interview - this will be run remotely and will likely be more technical in focus 1. Second interview - this will be run remotely and will likely be more focussed on the role in more detail and your ability to collaborate with our varied team We nurture a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion and we are dedicated to developing a workforce that displays a variety of talents, experiences and perspectives.