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City Scout - Cape Town

Atlys

Fully Remote
South Africa
South Africa
US hours

Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Atlys explicitly welcomes applicants based in South Africa. This role is suited for junior-level professionals. 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

AboutAtlys

Our mission is to enable every person on Earth to travel freely.

Travel should feel exciting. Instead, too much of it is still defined by paperwork, uncertainty, and processes that were never designed for travellers.

Atlysis changing that.

We’re building an AI-first platform that removes friction and uncertainty from travel. To date, we’ve processed visas for1M+ travellers across 127 countries. But we’re still early.

The Role

We're looking for aCity Scoutto help build the most reliable database of work-friendly cafes for travellers.

You'll visit cafes across your assigned city, verify information like WiFi quality, internet speed, plug points and overall work-friendliness, and submit accurate data that powers a newAtlysproduct. Every visit directly improves the travel experience for thousands of users.

The Job
* Explore and discover great cafes:Visit assigned cafes across your city, experience them as a customer, and identify places that travellers would genuinely enjoy working from.
Explore and discover great cafes:Visit assigned cafes across your city, experience them as a customer, and identify places that travellers would genuinely enjoy working from.
* Collect high-quality on-ground data:Verify key details including WiFi availability, internet speed, passwords, plug points, seating, ambience and overall work-friendliness to ensure the information is accurate and reliable.
Collect high-quality on-ground data:Verify key details including WiFi availability, internet speed, passwords, plug points, seating, ambience and overall work-friendliness to ensure the information is accurate and reliable.
* Contribute to a travel product used by thousands:Capture your observations by completing a short digital survey after every visit, helping build one of the world's most reliable databases of work-friendly cafes.
Contribute to a travel product used by thousands:Capture your observations by completing a short digital survey after every visit, helping build one of the world's most reliable databases of work-friendly cafes.
* Cover your city efficiently:Plan your visits across assigned neighbourhood clusters to maximize coverage while maintaining consistency and quality.
Cover your city efficiently:Plan your visits across assigned neighbourhood clusters to maximize coverage while maintaining consistency and quality.
* Maintain exceptional data quality:Pay close attention to detail, validate every submission, and ensure the information travellers see on theAtlysapp can be trusted.
Maintain exceptional data quality:Pay close attention to detail, validate every submission, and ensure the information travellers see on theAtlysapp can be trusted.

The Ideal Candidate

You’ll likely thrive in this role if you:
* Are a college student or have a flexible part-time schedule.
Are a college student or have a flexible part-time schedule.
* Enjoy exploring your city and discovering new places.
Enjoy exploring your city and discovering new places.
* Have strong attention to detail and collect information accurately.
Have strong attention to detail and collect information accurately.
* Are comfortable travelling independently within your city.
Are comfortable travelling independently within your city.
* Own a smartphone and are reliable, proactive and self-driven.
Own a smartphone and are reliable, proactive and self-driven.

We hire exceptional people for their craft, not travel enthusiasts. We solve hard problems that happen to touch global travel and government infrastructure.

What you can expect

Atlysis built by a small team with outsized ambition, high ownership, and an obsession with doing great work.

Here’s what you can expect:
* Competitive compensation and equityso you participate in the value you help create.
Competitive compensation and equityso you participate in the value you help create.
* Comprehensive health insurancecovering you and your family, plus annual preventive health check-up on us.
Comprehensive health insurancecovering you and your family, plus annual preventive health check-up on us.
* A thoughtful leave policywith paid time off and company holidays, because great work also requires real time off.
A thoughtful leave policywith paid time off and company holidays, because great work also requires real time off.
* Lunch, high tea and dinner at the office, so the basics are taken care of while we build together.
Lunch, high tea and dinner at the office, so the basics are taken care of while we build together.
* Learning & development creditsto invest in courses, books, conferences and tools that help you get better at your craft.
Learning & development creditsto invest in courses, books, conferences and tools that help you get better at your craft.
* Relocation supportto make moving closer to the team as seamless as possible.
Relocation supportto make moving closer to the team as seamless as possible.
* Great tools to do your best work, including high-spec equipment and software.
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Tips for South African Applicants

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.

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.

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.

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 Atlys

Atlys is a company in the City Scout industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.