Engineering Manager

Zepz; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 600 000 - 800 000; Full time

Job summary

A global remittance company is seeking a Quality Lead to oversee the assurance of high-quality customer experiences across its applications. As part of this role, you will lead a team focused on quality and automation in a remote-first environment. Ideal candidates possess strong leadership, technical skills, and experience with various testing frameworks. This position offers flexible working conditions and various benefits to support a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

Unlimited Annual Leave

Private Medical Cover

Retirement pension schemes

Life Assurance

Competitive parental leave schemes

Remote-first culture

Cycle-to-work scheme

Qualifications

• Leadership skills to develop talent within the team.
• Hands-on participation in engineering tasks including coding and peer reviews.
• Strong technical skills in quality assurance and testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the quality team to ensure a first-class experience for customers.
• Create a positive and high-performing team environment.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate requirements into test cases.

Skills

Leadership

Technical ownership of test frameworks

Experience with Appium

Familiarity with REST, gRPC, or GraphQL

Strong communication skills

Job description

About Zepz Zepz powers two leading global remittance brands, WorldRemit and Sendwave, to build the next generation of cross‑border payments. Serving over 9 million customers across 4 corridors, Zepz is transforming how money moves across borders by making it faster, safer and more convenient. Its innovative digital solutions are designed to break down financial barriers and expand access to better financial tools. Zepz operates across a broad global footprint, connecting the global north and south and enabling migrants to support loved ones, fuel local economies and build better futures.

Our Commitments

• Velocity – We are fast
• Outcomes – We work for our customers
• Integrity – We do the right thing

About the Role

The Quality team at Zepz is responsible for ensuring a first‑class experience for our customers. The Zepz applications, WorldRemit and Sendwave, are used across the globe at significant scale, and the impact of your work is seen by millions. You will lead this team and foster a culture of quality and automation.

You will need to be a team player who can communicate well.

You will own the quality of our mobile applications and be relentless on the quality we serve our customers. Technologies & Environment: we are building out our microservice architecture in Java / Kotlin using cloud‑based technologies in AWS and Kubernetes to manage software deployments. We put a strong emphasis on automation, unit / integration testing and performance testing. We also aim to be data‑driven in our decision making so building our service from the ground up supporting collection of such data is a must.

Responsibilities

• Develop talent within the team
• Create a positive and high‑performing environment
• Ensure the team is aligned on company priorities, goals, and OKRs
• Engage in hands‑on participation in engineering tasks such as coding, peer reviews, and building automation tests
• Act as the initial point of contact for your team and facilitate the inclusion of team members as required
• Collaborate closely with Scrum Masters to foster engagement, focus, responsibility, and motivation in the team
• Collaborate with stakeholders, translating requirements into test cases and specs for test engineers to automate
• Control quality gates to ensure a first‑class experience for our customers
• Coordinate mobile releases and feature inclusion

What You Bring to the Table

• Leadership
• Technical ownership of our test frameworks
• Champion a mindset focused on maintaining a high standard for quality and operational resilience
• Lead cross‑team efforts, highlighting areas of improvement and driving execution
• Motivate team members, drive engagement and steer professional development
• Have strong communications and presentation skills, be comfortable with presenting at the executive level

Technical

• Any software engineering / coding experience
• Experience with Appium
• Experience with testing services such as REST, gRPC or GraphQL

Bonus Points

• Have experience working in a Financial or FinTech space
• Have experience working in a distributed team across different geographies and timezones

What You’ll Get From Us

• Unlimited Annual Leave – Feel free to make the most of your time off and maintain a healthy work‑life balance
• Private Medical Cover – You can opt‑in to a private medical insurance scheme, providing thorough coverage for your health and well‑being
• Retirement – We offer pension schemes to help you plan for and secure your future
• Life Assurance – Life assurance is available to give you peace of mind and protect your loved ones in case of the unexpected
• Parental Leave – We offer competitive parental leave schemes to ensure you are spending as much quality time with your new bundle of joy as possible
• Remote‑first culture – We are remote‑first as an organisation, offering flexibility for you to work where you need to be most productive and workspace in talent cluster locations
• Secondary perks – cycle‑to‑work scheme, employee discounts, and other location‑specific benefits

We are proud parents, community organizers, farmers, band members, yoga teachers, YouTube influencers, former Olympians, and serial entrepreneurs. We collectively speak over twenty languages, enhancing our cross‑cultural collaboration.

Applications

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. If interested, please submit your resume along with a cover letter (optional) highlighting why your experience demonstrates you meet the requirements of the role. Please also indicate the countries in which you have work authorization.

We want you to be excited to wake up to make an impact every day.