Onsite Application Support Engineer (South Africa)

Optasia is a real-time financial intelligence company. We build precision intelligence that unlocks financial opportunity at scale, running millions of automated credit decisions every day across high-growth markets where formal credit data is limited. Our AI-powered platform turns permitted behavioural data and real-time signals into precise, responsible credit decisions. Embedded within the systems of telcos, banks, digital wallets and other partners, it helps them extend relevant financial services to more people while maintaining strong portfolio control and opens profitable new segments that were previously out of reach. This is how Optasia turns potential into financial progress, responsibly and at scale.

As a Service Operations Engineer, you will be responsible for the monitoring and restoration of the service related to the project that you will be assigned to work on. This is a technical position that requires a self-motivated technical engineer that has a wide range of technical experience, ability to communicate effectively and comprehend business operations, and expertise at resolving and addressing complex issues. The role requires flexibility to work independently and be an integral part of a team.

What you will do

• Serve as technical L1 & L2 escalation point for troubleshooting application, system and network issues related to the Services provided by Optasia to the customer projects that you will be assigned to work on.
• Take ownership of customer issues reported and seeing problems through to resolution within SLA target times.
• Work on a stand-by basis outside of standard working hours to cooperate with his/her counterparts when there is a need to deal with a system outage or system degradation.
• Work with customer’s and/or Optasia’s internal technical teams to evaluate and solve technical problems and reduce duration of customer impact and/or loss of services during major incidents and outages.
• Follow standard procedures for proper escalation of unresolved issues to the appropriate MNO and/or Optasia’s teams.
• Act as a Optasia local Single-Point-of-Contact for Service Operations-related matters and seek to accelerate progress of such matters.
• Participate in the technical meetings where Optasia’s presence is required by MNO.
• Log and update the technical tickets properly to MNO’s and/or Optasia’s ticket logging system.
• Proactively work to identify ways to improve and streamline processes.

What you will bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or similar
• 5+ years of working experience in a similar role.
• Hands-on experience with SQL and/or Postgres databases.
• Hands-on Linux & Networking experience is required.
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Diligence and attention to detail are also key skills along with ability to multi- task and prioritize work appropriately
• Strong technical troubleshooting skills and problem solving. Demonstrated ability to think through situations outside the norm and develop appropriate solutions for isolating the root cause.
• Capable of understanding the technical aspects of complex systems.
• Fluent in English

Additional skills (will be considered a plus):

• Experience in monitoring, alerting, metrics systems (Nagios, Grafana, Kibana)
• Familiarity with containerization methodologies i.e. Docker
• Familiarity with Atlassian Jira and Confluence

Why Optasia?

Optasia is a high-growth, AI-powered financial infrastructure platform serving over 432 million users in emerging markets across Africa and Asia. By harnessing the power of AI and real-time data we unlock financial opportunities for customers. We have been recognized as a top fintech by Forbes Middle East, culminating in a successful JSE listing in 2025.

At Optasia, our global team builds the tech, products and services which will change the game for the world's unbanked population. We empower our people by offering unique employee experiences and support individual careers by prioritizing well-being and embracing flexibility.

Benefits include:

• Competitive remuneration package
• Extra day off on your birthday
• Performance-based bonus scheme
• All the tech gear you need to work smart