🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Ocrolus Inc. is open to applicants from South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

Come build at the intersection of AI and fintech. At Ocrolus, we're on a mission to help lenders automate workflows with confidence-streamlining how financial institutions evaluate borrowers and enabling faster, more accurate lending decisions.

Our AI workflow and analytics platform for lenders is trusted at scale, processing nearly one million credit applications every month across small business, mortgage, and consumer lending. By integrating state-of-the-art open- and closed-source AI models with our human-in-the-loop verification engine, Ocrolus captures data from financial documents with over 99% accuracy. Thanks to our advanced fraud detection and comprehensive cash flow and income analytics, our customers achieve greater efficiency in risk management, and provide expanded access to credit-ultimately creating a more inclusive financial system.

Trusted by more than 400 customers-including industry leaders like Better Mortgage, Brex, Enova, Nova Credit, PayPal, Plaid, SoFi, and Square-Ocrolus stands at the forefront of AI innovation in fintech. Join us, and help redefine how the world's most innovative lenders do business.

We are looking for an exceptionally skilled Senior Software Engineer - Backend with a solid technical background and leadership skills, able to work in a fast-paced environment, and help architect and build the next generation of our backend applications.

What you'll do:

- Designing, implementing, and maintaining Microservices using Python.

- Designing and developing cloud based software products conforming to industry best practices.

- Build systems, services, and tools to handle new Ocrolus products and business requirements that securely scale over millions of transactions.

- Build and scale our fast-growing online services and data pipelines.

- Collaborate with other teams on security, reliability, and automation.

- Supporting the testing process, troubleshooting issues and resolving them.

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Tips for South African Applicants

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Timezone Advantage

South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.

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Salary in Context

Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.

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Application Tips

Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.

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Load Shedding Preparedness

If you're applying for a remote role, having a backup power solution (UPS, inverter, or generator) and mobile data as a backup internet connection shows employers you're prepared for South Africa's infrastructure challenges.

About Ocrolus Inc.

Ocrolus Inc. is a company in the software industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.