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Senior Voice Routing Specialist

Talk360

Fully Remote
Remote job
South Africa
US hours

Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at Talk360 explicitly welcomes applicants based in 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

The Challenge

We connect over 500’000 callers in 190 countries: that represents 36,000 calling corridors and over 100 million calling minutes. We work with various global suppliers optimising for call quality. It’s complex. Each calling corridor has its own quality quirks and legal and regulatory rules to work within. We want someone to own call quality and routing holistically across all of it: routing daily to optimize what's happening right now, while watching the data for the long-term trends that tell us where to fix things next.

A failed call is not a metric to us. It's someone not hearing their mother's voice or its an important business call that fails. We also have real ambitions to scale calling well beyond where we are today, so this complexity isn't going anywhere. It's only going to grow.

Talk360 has been profitable since 2025, expanding beyond our core calling app into embedded, B2B2C calling for partners. We are lean, around 30 people globally, spread across the Netherlands, South Africa, Nigeria, Suriname, Turkey, Egypt, Kenya, Ukraine, and beyond. That means this role has real scope from day one: no layers between you and the decisions that matter, and no shortage of things worth tackling.

This is a remote opportunity.

What You'll Do
* Own call quality holistically: hold the full picture of call quality end to end, working with the team on both the daily grind and the long-term view, moving fluidly between quick fixes and structured experiments.
Own call quality holistically: hold the full picture of call quality end to end, working with the team on both the daily grind and the long-term view, moving fluidly between quick fixes and structured experiments.
* Manage zones, codes, and origins: own and continuously refine our zone, dialing code, and call origin management, keeping the underlying structure clean and accurate across all 900 zones.
Manage zones, codes, and origins: own and continuously refine our zone, dialing code, and call origin management, keeping the underlying structure clean and accurate across all 900 zones.
* Update routing continuously: change routing several times a day, from immediate fixes to longer-running tests of new suppliers.
Update routing continuously: change routing several times a day, from immediate fixes to longer-running tests of new suppliers.
* Work cross-functionally by design: partner daily with Ozcan, who owns supplier account management and deal creation, and Mahmoud, who runs hourly monitoring and support-team escalations to suppliers. Work with Ewan on automating the processes behind routing, and with Product and CRM to improve the experience for our end users.
Work cross-functionally by design: partner daily with Ozcan, who owns supplier account management and deal creation, and Mahmoud, who runs hourly monitoring and support-team escalations to suppliers. Work with Ewan on automating the processes behind routing, and with Product and CRM to improve the experience for our end users.
* Move routing toward automation: work toward (semi) automated routing and pricing, reducing how much of this still runs on manual, single-person work.
Move routing toward automation: work toward (semi) automated routing and pricing, reducing how much of this still runs on manual, single-person work.

What You'll Bring
* Hands-on experience with international A-Z calling and telco routing: zones, codes, LCR, and SIP response codes, built at a telco, carrier, or comms platform with real cross-border calling experience.
Hands-on experience with international A-Z calling and telco routing: zones, codes, LCR, and SIP response codes, built at a telco, carrier, or comms platform with real cross-border calling experience.
* NOC or technical support background: comfortable troubleshooting live voice traffic and reading call detail records and quality metrics like ASR and ACD.
NOC or technical support background: comfortable troubleshooting live voice traffic and reading call detail records and quality metrics like ASR and ACD.
* Exposure to a routing/testing platform such as iTest or an equivalent tool. Familiarity with Digitalk Cloud Carrier (DCC), our current routing platform, is a plus.
Exposure to a routing/testing platform such as iTest or an equivalent tool. Familiarity with Digitalk Cloud Carrier (DCC), our current routing platform, is a plus.
* Nice to have: working technical literacy in SIP signalling and SBC concepts
Nice to have: working technical literacy in SIP signalling and SBC concepts

Who You Are
* Process driven and meticulous: you build the audit trail as you go, not after something goes wrong. You are methodical and analytical by nature, and you would rather have a clean, repeatable process than a clever one-off fix.
Process driven and meticulous: you build the audit trail as you go, not after something goes wrong. You are methodical and analytical by nature, and you would rather have a clean, repeatable process than a clever one-off fix.
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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 Talk360

Talk360 is a company in the Product industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.