Platform & Payments Product Manager

Lesaka Technologies; Wes-Kaap; Hybrid; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Lesaka Technologies is a Southern African fintech seeking a Product Manager for Platform & Transactions in Cape Town. You will own the shared transaction engine across all products, focusing on reliability, scalability and cost-to-serve.

You’ll drive the integration roadmap, define non-functional requirements, and partner with engineering to optimize performance and settlement. This hybrid role reports to the Chief Product Officer.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in product management on platform, payments, transactional or infrastructure products.
• Strong grasp of transaction flows, integrations and non-functional requirements.
• Ability to read transaction and failure data and turn it into a prioritised roadmap.
• Confidence partnering closely with engineering on architecture trade-offs without owning the sprint.
• A reliability and cost mindset you treat uptime and unit economics as product features.

Responsibilities

• Drive transaction success rates, latency and uptime across every product vertical.
• Own the integration roadmap, new payment methods, aggregators and partner APIs with reusable patterns that cut onboarding time.
• Define the non-functional requirements (throughput, latency, failover) that engineering builds against.
• Benchmark our rails against the market- settlement speed, failure rates, payment-method coverage and close the gaps that matter.
• Drive cost-to-serve down through smarter routing and retry/recovery frameworks.
• Filter genuine systemic reliability problems from one-off incidents, and prioritise accordingly.

Skills

Product management

Payments experience

Platform products

Data-driven roadmap

Engineering collaboration

Tools

Payment gateways

APIs

Job description

Lesaka Technologies is a Southern African fintech seeking a Product Manager for Platform & Transactions in Cape Town. You will own the shared transaction engine across all products, focusing on reliability, scalability and cost-to-serve.

You’ll drive the integration roadmap, define non-functional requirements, and partner with engineering to optimize performance and settlement. This hybrid role reports to the Chief Product Officer.