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LUNO IS HIRING
BUSINESS OPTIMISATION ANALYST
South Africa & Malaysia
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
You will form part of the Onboarding Operations team based in Cape Town and Kuala Lumpur, reporting to the Head of Onboarding Strategy and Customer Due Diligence Operations. Your role as a Business Optimisation Analyst (Data) will be to use your knowledge of data analysis and data processing to inform key business decisions in the Onboarding Operations team and other business areas. You will work in a fast paced environment, collaborating with other business units, including Engineering, Product, Compliance and Data teams, servicing the business on an international level together with the teams from South East Asia, Africa and Europe. You will be responsible for creating dashboards, extracting data, writing reports, and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine business initiatives’ success.
Your mission will be:
The ideal candidate will have:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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BUSINESS OPTIMISATION ANALYST
South Africa & Malaysia
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
You will form part of the Onboarding Operations team based in Cape Town and Kuala Lumpur, reporting to the Head of Onboarding Strategy and Customer Due Diligence Operations. Your role as a Business Optimisation Analyst (Data) will be to use your knowledge of data analysis and data processing to inform key business decisions in the Onboarding Operations team and other business areas. You will work in a fast paced environment, collaborating with other business units, including Engineering, Product, Compliance and Data teams, servicing the business on an international level together with the teams from South East Asia, Africa and Europe. You will be responsible for creating dashboards, extracting data, writing reports, and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine business initiatives’ success.
Your mission will be:
- Interpret trends and patterns in data and present findings and actionable insights to senior leaders of the business
- Collaborate with data engineers to design and build any pipelines/data models needed to support analytical and reporting needs
- Structure large data sets to find usable information
- Design metrics to help assess how the onboarding teams and broader business are performing on a day-to-day basis
- Report regularly on business and team performance
- Work closely with the relevant business stakeholders to understand their data needs
- Collaborate with teams to determine, collect and analyse required data to address business needs while ensuring it is of the highest quality, reliable and trusted
- Build visually compelling dashboards that communicate insights to stakeholders (often non-technical) to allow data-informed decision making
- Use data-driven analysis to identify opportunities for improvement and automation in onboarding operations processes
- Review delivery of providers against Service Level Agreements and support negotiations from a data perspective
The ideal candidate will have:
- A qualification in Data Analysis or similar quantitative fields.
- A minimum of 1 year of experience in the data or business optimisation space
- Intermediate skills in SQL, Python and experience working with data pipelines.
- Experience working with business intelligence platforms such as Looker, Tableau, DataBricks, PowerBI or similar
- Familiar with data governance principles and best practices
- Passionate about data analytics and related disciplines
- Friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.
- Experience in a customer service / customer onboarding / KYC environment is advantageous
- Ability to lead change through entrepreneurial thinking, a strong sense of responsibility and a very high level of integrity
- Adaptable, capable and intellectually curious and have the persistence to find answers to difficult questions in fast-paced and environments
- Ability to formulate business cases, document investigation work, and contribute to technical design documents
- Ability to take ownership of own work and successfully deliver high quality projects with obscure and incomplete requirements
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to explain data concepts to non-experts in a clear, and structured manner
- Experience working with cross-functional teams using data to influence strategy, roadmaps and drive data-informed decisions
- Internet access at home and the ability to work remotely (Luno will provide successful candidates with suitable equipment to set them up for success)
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- Free lunch and snacks
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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SENIOR COMPLIANCE AUDITOR
Cape Town & Johannesburg
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
At Luno, our main objective is to provide our users with a secure and streamlined cryptocurrency experience. To achieve this, our Internal Audit team plays a critical role in enforcing compliance, identifying potential risks and hazards, and prompting enhancements throughout our organization. We are currently seeking an experienced Audit Manager to lead our team and deliver exceptional insights and solutions that align with our strategic objectives.
The role in a nutshell:
We're looking for a Senior Compliance Auditor to help us deliver our risk-based Internal Audit plan as we continue to support the organisation’s assurance and advisory needs. The role reports to the Internal Audit Lead who reports administratively to the CFO and functionally to the Board and Risk Committee.
Your mission will be:
A little about you:
- Minimum Experience Level and Preferred Qualifications:
- Additional skills that will be beneficial to your application:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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SENIOR COMPLIANCE AUDITOR
Cape Town & Johannesburg
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
At Luno, our main objective is to provide our users with a secure and streamlined cryptocurrency experience. To achieve this, our Internal Audit team plays a critical role in enforcing compliance, identifying potential risks and hazards, and prompting enhancements throughout our organization. We are currently seeking an experienced Audit Manager to lead our team and deliver exceptional insights and solutions that align with our strategic objectives.
The role in a nutshell:
We're looking for a Senior Compliance Auditor to help us deliver our risk-based Internal Audit plan as we continue to support the organisation’s assurance and advisory needs. The role reports to the Internal Audit Lead who reports administratively to the CFO and functionally to the Board and Risk Committee.
Your mission will be:
- Contribute to the development of a risk-based Internal Audit plan with a focus on Compliance.
- Maintain and update the audit universe, identifying emerging risks and regulatory requirements.
- Understand the business's risk profile in the broader context of the group and industry.
- Perform allocated audits in line with the approved Internal Auditing Methodology, in line with International Standards of Auditing and maintain quality and performance standards consistently.
- Execute and deliver the audit plan and management requests promptly.
- Deliver impactful audit reports with well-considered management actions and due dates promptly.
- Drive the Combined Assurance efforts of the organisation.
- Execute the issues assurance plan promptly and by quality standards.
- Cultivate and maintain effective relationships with auditees.
- Contribute effectively to administrative needs of the Internal Audit function.
A little about you:
- Minimum Experience Level and Preferred Qualifications:
- A tertiary honours degree (or equivalent) in Internal Audit/Risk Management/Law.
- A minimum of 5 years experience with at least 3 years in a compliance related position and 2 years in an Internal Audit role..
- Ability to perform all stages of an audit project in line with applicable standards.
- A minimum of 2 years experience in key regulations in the Financial Industry ( especially AML/CFT regulations).
- Additional skills that will be beneficial to your application:
- Experience in Blockchain and Cryptocurrency.
- Relevant Compliance Certifications.
- Experience in auditing AML across various countries.
- Experience in auditing the ISO standards.
- Experience in auditing SOC compliance.
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- Free lunch and snacks
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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HEAD OF EXCHANGE
Cape Town, Johannesburg
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
We are seeking an experienced, visionary, and results-driven individual to lead our Exchange function as the Head of Exchange. This pivotal leadership role will be responsible for the strategic direction, operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and overall growth of our trading platform. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of market structure, technology, liquidity provision, and exchange operations in the digital assets space.
Your mission will be:
- Strategy and Vision
A little about you:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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HEAD OF EXCHANGE
Cape Town, Johannesburg
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
We are seeking an experienced, visionary, and results-driven individual to lead our Exchange function as the Head of Exchange. This pivotal leadership role will be responsible for the strategic direction, operational excellence, regulatory compliance, and overall growth of our trading platform. The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of market structure, technology, liquidity provision, and exchange operations in the digital assets space.
Your mission will be:
- Strategy and Vision
- Define and execute the long-term strategy for the exchange, including product roadmap, market positioning, and growth initiatives, aligning with the company's overall vision.
- Identify new market opportunities, product expansions (e.g., new derivatives, staking products, token listings), and partnerships to drive volume and revenue growth.
- Lead the analysis of relevant market trends, competitive landscapes, and technological advancements to maintain a competitive edge.
- Partner with other businesses within the group to develop new opportunities and drive synergies across the group
- Oversee the day-to-day operations of the exchange, ensuring high performance, stability, security, and low latency of the trading infrastructure.
- Drive continuous improvement in trading features, execution quality, market making tools, and overall user experience for retail and institutional clients.
- Monitor and analyse key performance indicators (KPIs) such as trading volume, market share, revenue, and liquidity depth, as well as P&L performance, implementing strategies to meet aggressive targets.
- Manage relationships with key market participants, including liquidity providers, custodians, and institutional traders.
- Lead the community management of Luno’s top traders globally to create a valuable ecosystem gathering constant feedback to drive customer improvements across the trading product suite.
- Ensure all exchange operations, listings, and market activities are fully compliant with relevant global regulations and internal policies (e.g., AML, KYC, market abuse monitoring).
- Act as the primary contact for regulatory bodies and internal compliance teams concerning exchange operations.
- Develop and enforce robust risk management frameworks, including trading risk, credit and counterparty risk, operational risk, and technological risk.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team across trading operations, product management, market surveillance, and technology functions dedicated to the exchange.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning within the Exchange team and the broader business.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including Engineering, Product, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Treasury and Marketing.
A little about you:
- Experience: Minimum of 8-10+ years of experience in a senior leadership role within a reputable cryptocurrency exchange, electronic trading venue, or leading financial institution, with a direct focus on market operations or product management. Experience in Digital Assets is required.
- Market Knowledge: Deep expertise in market microstructure, electronic trading systems, liquidity strategies, and order book management.
- Leadership: Proven track record of building, mentoring, and managing high-performing, geographically distributed teams.
- Regulatory Acumen: Strong understanding and experience of regulatory requirements (e.g., MiFID II, SEC, CFTC, FSCA, FCA, or equivalent crypto/financial regulations) relevant to operating a trading venue.
- Technical Proficiency: Solid understanding of trading technology, system architecture, and low-latency environments.
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field.
- Experience launching new exchange products or expanding into new regulated markets.
- Familiarity with various products beyond spot trading, such as derivatives (futures, options), lending/borrowing, and staking services.
- Strong network within the institutional trading and financial technology communities.
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- Free lunch and snacks
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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FINANCIAL PLANNING ANALYST
Cape Town, Johannesburg
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards. We don’t do memecoins.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
This is an exciting opportunity to join Luno’s awesome Finance team in a role within the FP&A sub-team focused on helping us get the right information into the hands of our decision makers.
The FP&A team is made up of 2 finance business partners, 1 senior commercial analyst, 1 commercial analyst, 1 FP&A analyst and a head of financial planning
Luno offers great people and culture: work with pioneers in the crypto space, our ‘remote but reachable’ approach goes beyond flexible working, an environment of continuous learning and growth; with an annual inspiration day on top of your normal holiday allowance.
The role in a nutshell:
This role will focus on building and maintaining the right datasets to support FP&A and the wider business to make the best decisions for Luno in terms of cost base and ROI. This role will also support FP&A with budgets & forecasts as well as reporting.
Your mission will be:
A little about you:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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FINANCIAL PLANNING ANALYST
Cape Town, Johannesburg
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards. We don’t do memecoins.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
This is an exciting opportunity to join Luno’s awesome Finance team in a role within the FP&A sub-team focused on helping us get the right information into the hands of our decision makers.
The FP&A team is made up of 2 finance business partners, 1 senior commercial analyst, 1 commercial analyst, 1 FP&A analyst and a head of financial planning
Luno offers great people and culture: work with pioneers in the crypto space, our ‘remote but reachable’ approach goes beyond flexible working, an environment of continuous learning and growth; with an annual inspiration day on top of your normal holiday allowance.
The role in a nutshell:
This role will focus on building and maintaining the right datasets to support FP&A and the wider business to make the best decisions for Luno in terms of cost base and ROI. This role will also support FP&A with budgets & forecasts as well as reporting.
Your mission will be:
- Building and maintaining data tables (as well as front end UX pages) - Anaplan and Database
- Analysis and reporting on key cost measures including customer unit economics
- Cleaning and sense checking data from other teams / systems
- Designing cost measures that are meaningful for the business to assess ROI
- Forecasting centrally managed costs including payroll
- Supporting Head of FP&A with managing annual budget process as well as forecasts on both cash and accruals basis
- Assisting with internal and Board reporting
A little about you:
- Commercially curious mindset
- Excellent project management skills
- Highly IT literate, comfortable operating and learning new systems
- Experience working with large datasets
- Background in finance
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- CIMA / ACCA / ACA qualified
- Background in data or experience working closely with data analysts/scientists
- Knowledge of SQL
- Experience in cryptocurrency or regulated retail financial services
- Experience with Anaplan
- Experience calculating customer unit economics
- Strong financial modeling skills
- Proven track record for process improvement/implementation
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- Free lunch and snacks
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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AML OPERATIONS SCREENING TEAM LEAD
Cape Town/Johannesburg
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
You will form part of the Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) Operations team based in South Africa, and you will report to the AML Operations Manager. Our AML Operations team looks after our global business and consists of a growing team of enthusiastic, energetic Lunauts. You will work in a fast paced environment, collaborating with other business units, including Customer Support, Onboarding, Engineering, Product and Legal teams, servicing the business on an international level together with the teams from Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe.
About the team:
The AML Operations team takes care of the operational aspects of financial crime risk identification matters for Luno's global business. Our mission is to create a world class compliance experience for Luno as well as our customers. We make sure we have the processes and information available that enable us to truly understand our customer risk, we monitor for any external red flags customers may raise when they use Luno and we deal with any questions our business or customers may have on what good looks like. We operate in regional teams around the world with our central team in South Africa.
Your mission will involve:
The ideal candidate will have:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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AML OPERATIONS SCREENING TEAM LEAD
Cape Town/Johannesburg
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
You will form part of the Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”) Operations team based in South Africa, and you will report to the AML Operations Manager. Our AML Operations team looks after our global business and consists of a growing team of enthusiastic, energetic Lunauts. You will work in a fast paced environment, collaborating with other business units, including Customer Support, Onboarding, Engineering, Product and Legal teams, servicing the business on an international level together with the teams from Africa, Asia Pacific and Europe.
About the team:
The AML Operations team takes care of the operational aspects of financial crime risk identification matters for Luno's global business. Our mission is to create a world class compliance experience for Luno as well as our customers. We make sure we have the processes and information available that enable us to truly understand our customer risk, we monitor for any external red flags customers may raise when they use Luno and we deal with any questions our business or customers may have on what good looks like. We operate in regional teams around the world with our central team in South Africa.
Your mission will involve:
- Management and oversight of the Screening Team on all functional and people management aspects;
- Managing and supervising Screening Team members, including:
- providing guidance on execution of functional duties and as required, become actively involved to meet schedules and resolve problems;
- supporting personal development;
- building relationships with and between team members, set expectations, define and delegate tasks and help remove obstacles;
- Managing team member onboarding and role based training;
- Conducts regular 1-1s with team members and raise performance matters with key stakeholders;
- Maintain open lines of communication with team members, including on priorities, policy and processes;
- Managing all aspects of customer screening and the outcomes thereof in respect of:
- sanctions, adverse media and political exposure;
- private watch lists;
- geolocation and geofencing;
- perform a QA function and
- any other AML risk identifiers and typologies as appropriate;
- Management, fine tuning and reporting on screening rules, thresholds and outcomes;
- Governance and reporting in respect of team performance, progress tracking, service level agreements, key risk indicators and operational metrics;
- Oversight over the drafting and, where appropriate, filing of regulatory reports and responding to regulatory requests;
- Establishing processes for, review of and managing of quality assurance;
- Drafting and implementing standard operating procedures, including in respect of account closures, exits and the unverifying of customer accounts, and guidance to ensure compliance with regulations;
- Coordination and management of senior management approvals;
- Creating, implementing and managing role based training;
- Collaborate with AML Operations Manager in developing, planning and managing the Screening Team’s operational plans and strategic goals, including in relation to Smart Goals;
- Collaborating with the wider Anti-Financial Crime team to support ongoing investigations, queries and analytics;
- Supporting the AML Operations Manager in the planning and oversight of day to day team tasks;
- Working with the Compliance Advisory team to ensure that our operations are regulatory compliant and manage the implementation of new regulations or changes to existing regulations;
- External and internal stakeholder management in conjunction with the AML Operations Manager and Head of Anti-Financial Crime;
- Supporting external and internal compliance audits;
- Supporting Luno’s compliance efforts across multiple geographies; and
- Supporting the business with AML operations related queries, including triaging received queries and resolution of questions pertaining to Luno’s compliance procedures.
The ideal candidate will have:
- A degree or diploma from a recognised tertiary institution
- A minimum of 5 years work experience in an Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Terrorist Financing related field
- Strong analytical mindset
- Ability to adapt within a fast-paced environment
- Strong attention to detail and experience in process writing and documenting outcomes of reviews and investigations
- High proficiency in English (please ensure that your application is in English)
- If not a South African citizen, an existing, valid permit to work in South Africa
- Entrepreneurial, strong sense of responsibility and very high level of integrity
- Solid interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills
- Friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed
- Familiarity with crypto-currencies will be highly advantageous
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- Free lunch and snacks
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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ANTI-FINANCIAL CRIME MODELING ANALYST
Cape Town, Johannesburg
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
The Analytics team forms part of the broader Anti-Financial Crime division and you will report to the Analytics Manager who is based in Cape Town. Our vision is to become the best Anti-Financial Crime team in the industry, globally!
The role in a nutshell:
As an Anti-Financial Crime Modelling Analyst, you’ll be focusing on building and empowering the Anti-Financial Crime Analytics team with the Analytics Manager. You’ll also be working closely with other Anti-Financial Crime team members. You’ll be facilitating cross-team projects, helping shape our platform to reward genuine behaviour and identify and respond to unusual or suspected behaviour, whilst contributing to our growth plan.
Your mission will be:
- Develop, monitor and refine AML/Fraud models and rules to minimise false positives and surface high-risk behaviour, including feature engineering, tuning, drift monitoring, and effectiveness testing (precision/recall, PR curves, shadow/A-B tests)
- Partner with Anti-Fraud to design pro-active fraud detection and smarter friction (In-house fraud monitoring rules and ML-driven alternatives), balancing risk vs customer experience.
- Ship production-ready analytics in Databricks (Python/PySpark, Jobs/Workflows); collaborate with data platform development to ensure data readiness and reliability.
- Publish decisionable insights in Looker (LookML explores, dashboards, alerting) and/or Databricks dashboards.
- Document and govern changes (model docs, audit trail, playbooks)
- Raise the bar on quality (unit tests for logic, code reviews, reproducible notebooks, clear acceptance criteria) and contribute to our backlog burn-down.
A little about you:
- A relevant bachelor’s degree (stats, maths, CS, engineering, economics or similar).
- 3+ years in analytics/modeling for fraud/AML/risk (or adjacent high-stakes domains).
- Strong Python (pandas, PySpark), solid SQL, and hands-on Databricks (Delta Lake, Jobs/Workflows; Model Serving, AutoML and productionizing models a plus).
- Looker / LookML experience building reliable explores and dashboards for operators.
- Comfort with model evaluation & monitoring (sampling, class imbalance, drift, stability, calibration, champion/challenger).
- Experience tuning rules/thresholds and measuring downstream workload impact (throughput, SLA, false-positive rate).
- Good data engineering hygiene: version control (GitLab), CI basics, testing, and documentation.
- Bonus points for familiarity with ComplyAdvantage, Chainalysis, Unity Catalog/RLS/CLS in a financial-services context.
- Clear communicator who can translate analytics into operator-ready actions and defend decisions with evidence.
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- Free lunch and snacks
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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BUSINESS OPTIMISATION ANALYST
Cape Town, Kuala Lumpur
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
You will form part of the Onboarding Operations team based in Cape Town and Kuala Lumpur, reporting to the Head of Onboarding Strategy and Customer Due Diligence Operations. Your role as a Business Optimisation Analyst (Data) will be to use your knowledge of data analysis and data processing to inform key business decisions in the Onboarding Operations team and other business areas. You will work in a fast paced environment, collaborating with other business units, including Engineering, Product, Compliance and Data teams, servicing the business on an international level together with the teams from South East Asia, Africa and Europe. You will be responsible for creating dashboards, extracting data, writing reports, and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine business initiatives’ success.
Your mission will be:
The ideal candidate will have:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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BUSINESS OPTIMISATION ANALYST
Cape Town, Kuala Lumpur
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
You will form part of the Onboarding Operations team based in Cape Town and Kuala Lumpur, reporting to the Head of Onboarding Strategy and Customer Due Diligence Operations. Your role as a Business Optimisation Analyst (Data) will be to use your knowledge of data analysis and data processing to inform key business decisions in the Onboarding Operations team and other business areas. You will work in a fast paced environment, collaborating with other business units, including Engineering, Product, Compliance and Data teams, servicing the business on an international level together with the teams from South East Asia, Africa and Europe. You will be responsible for creating dashboards, extracting data, writing reports, and monitoring key performance indicators (KPIs) to determine business initiatives’ success.
Your mission will be:
- Interpret trends and patterns in data and present findings and actionable insights to senior leaders of the business
- Collaborate with data engineers to design and build any pipelines/data models needed to support analytical and reporting needs
- Structure large data sets to find usable information
- Design metrics to help assess how the onboarding teams and broader business are performing on a day-to-day basis
- Report regularly on business and team performance
- Work closely with the relevant business stakeholders to understand their data needs
- Collaborate with teams to determine, collect and analyse required data to address business needs while ensuring it is of the highest quality, reliable and trusted
- Build visually compelling dashboards that communicate insights to stakeholders (often non-technical) to allow data-informed decision making
- Use data-driven analysis to identify opportunities for improvement and automation in onboarding operations processes
- Review delivery of providers against Service Level Agreements and support negotiations from a data perspective
The ideal candidate will have:
- A qualification in Data Analysis or similar quantitative fields.
- A minimum of 1 year of experience in the data or business optimisation space
- Intermediate skills in SQL, Python and experience working with data pipelines.
- Experience working with business intelligence platforms such as Looker, Tableau, DataBricks, PowerBI or similar
- Familiar with data governance principles and best practices
- Passionate about data analytics and related disciplines
- Friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.
- Experience in a customer service / customer onboarding / KYC environment is advantageous
- Ability to lead change through entrepreneurial thinking, a strong sense of responsibility and a very high level of integrity
- Adaptable, capable and intellectually curious and have the persistence to find answers to difficult questions in fast-paced and environments
- Ability to formulate business cases, document investigation work, and contribute to technical design documents
- Ability to take ownership of own work and successfully deliver high quality projects with obscure and incomplete requirements
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills and ability to explain data concepts to non-experts in a clear, and structured manner
- Experience working with cross-functional teams using data to influence strategy, roadmaps and drive data-informed decisions
- Internet access at home and the ability to work remotely (Luno will provide successful candidates with suitable equipment to set them up for success)
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- Free lunch and snacks
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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DATA ENGINEER
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
The Data community at Luno, comprising Data Engineers, Scientists, and Analysts, uncovers valuable insights from the vast amounts of data we gather from our customers and platform. These insights are crucial for guiding our product development and business strategy.
The Data Engineering team at Luno is the backbone of Luno’s data ecosystem. The core mission is to transform complex, raw data into high-quality, reliable, and accessible information for every critical business function. We design, build, and maintain the advanced Data Warehouse and Data Platforms focusing on speed, quality and robust data governance, driving informed decisions and unlocking business value across the organisation.
The role in a nutshell:
We are looking for a skilled Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain robust pipelines in our data warehouse that power our organisation. You will be responsible for ensuring high-quality, scalable data is accessible and reliable for diverse stakeholders across the business.
Your mission will be:
A little about you:
The ideal Lunaut will have:
What will really get you noticed:
Our tech stack:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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DATA ENGINEER
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
The Data community at Luno, comprising Data Engineers, Scientists, and Analysts, uncovers valuable insights from the vast amounts of data we gather from our customers and platform. These insights are crucial for guiding our product development and business strategy.
The Data Engineering team at Luno is the backbone of Luno’s data ecosystem. The core mission is to transform complex, raw data into high-quality, reliable, and accessible information for every critical business function. We design, build, and maintain the advanced Data Warehouse and Data Platforms focusing on speed, quality and robust data governance, driving informed decisions and unlocking business value across the organisation.
The role in a nutshell:
We are looking for a skilled Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain robust pipelines in our data warehouse that power our organisation. You will be responsible for ensuring high-quality, scalable data is accessible and reliable for diverse stakeholders across the business.
Your mission will be:
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Data Scientists, Analysts, and Product teams to translate complex business requirements into technical objectives and data models.
- Dimensional modelling: Build and maintain Kimball models
- Pipeline Development: Design, construct, and scale data pipelines using ETL/ELT frameworks to ingest data from diverse sources.
- Data Governance: Implement rigorous data quality checks, monitoring, and validation protocols to ensure high quality and compliant data.(including but not limited to quality checks, code reviews, release management, version control etc
- Optimisation: Continuously tune and optimise queries and storage patterns to minimise latency and reduce cloud infrastructure costs.
A little about you:
- You are passionate about data and are excited about a rapidly changing field.
- You have a solid grasp of dimensional data modeling, database management, and modern ETL/ELT techniques.
- You are intellectually curious, persistent in solving complex data puzzles, and stay ahead of emerging industry trends.
- You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments and can work with high autonomy or as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
- You are an enthusiastic team player with strong communication skills and have the ability to explain data concepts to non-experts in a clear, and structured manner
The ideal Lunaut will have:
- Bachelor's degree or higher in the natural sciences or technical fields such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or Economics
- Proven experience as a Data Engineer or similar role.
- Experience working with cloud technologies
- Advanced SQL skills and experience with relational databases
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Ability to successfully complete projects with large and/or incomplete data sets
- Enthusiasm to work in the crypto industry
- Great analytical, critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
What will really get you noticed:
- Experience working with Databricks
- Experience working with business intelligence platform (Thoughtspot, Looker, Qlik or others)
- Solid understanding and experience of ELT processes
- Solid experience in building dimensional models (Kimball, Inmon, data vault and etc)
- Experience with designing and implementing analytical data warehouse solutions within a data lake architecture
Our tech stack:
- Programming Languages: SQL, Python, GoLang
- IaC Tooling: Terraform
- Databases: MySQL, Redshift
- Data Platforms: Databricks, Thoughtspot, Looker
- Cloud Platforms: AWS
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events.
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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HEAD OF CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT
Cape Town, Johannesburg
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
We’re looking for a highly strategic and execution-focused Head of Corporate Development to drive our inorganic growth strategy, including M&A, investments, and strategic partnerships. You will be a key member of the Strategy and Finance team, working closely with the executive team to identify, evaluate, and execute transactions that accelerate our company's mission and execution of our strategy. This role requires a blend of financial acumen, strategic thinking, deep industry knowledge, and the ability to manage complex, end-to-end deal processes including integration planning. You will be instrumental in shaping the future trajectory of the company by identifying opportunities that provide significant strategic value and measurable impact on our long-term objectives. You’ll be hands-on in financial modeling and due diligence, while also possessing the executive presence to represent the business externally, source opportunities, negotiate terms, and present recommendations to the Board and executive team.
Your mission will be:
- Strategy & Opportunity Sourcing
- Transaction Execution
- Post-Transaction Integration
- Strategic Partnerships
A little about you:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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HEAD OF CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT
Cape Town, Johannesburg
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
We’re looking for a highly strategic and execution-focused Head of Corporate Development to drive our inorganic growth strategy, including M&A, investments, and strategic partnerships. You will be a key member of the Strategy and Finance team, working closely with the executive team to identify, evaluate, and execute transactions that accelerate our company's mission and execution of our strategy. This role requires a blend of financial acumen, strategic thinking, deep industry knowledge, and the ability to manage complex, end-to-end deal processes including integration planning. You will be instrumental in shaping the future trajectory of the company by identifying opportunities that provide significant strategic value and measurable impact on our long-term objectives. You’ll be hands-on in financial modeling and due diligence, while also possessing the executive presence to represent the business externally, source opportunities, negotiate terms, and present recommendations to the Board and executive team.
Your mission will be:
- Strategy & Opportunity Sourcing
- Partner with the executive team, business unit leaders, and product teams to define and align on the company’s corporate development strategy, identifying key growth areas, capability gaps, and strategic targets (M&A, investments, strategic partnerships).
- Proactively source, research, and evaluate potential acquisition, investment, and partnership opportunities that meet strategic and financial objectives for the business.
- Maintain a robust pipeline of target companies and stay current on market trends, competitor activity, and disruptive technologies in our core and adjacent markets.
- Transaction Execution
- Own the end-to-end transaction lifecycle, including initial contact, strategic rationale development, valuation, due diligence coordination, negotiation, integration planning, and closing.
- Develop comprehensive financial models, including valuation (DCF, comparable company analysis, precedent transactions), synergy analysis, and returns analysis.
- Lead and manage cross-functional due diligence teams (Legal, Finance, Product, Engineering, HR) to assess key risks and opportunities.
- Draft and present detailed strategic and financial recommendations to senior management and the Board of Directors.
- Post-Transaction Integration
- Collaborate with executive team and functional leaders to develop and execute effective post-merger integration plans, ensuring successful realisation of transaction synergies and strategic objectives.
- Strategic Partnerships
- Work alongside business development teams to structure and negotiate strategic alliances and commercial partnerships that complement the organic and M&A strategies.
A little about you:
- 8+ years of experience in Corporate Development, Investment Banking (M&A focus), Private Equity, Strategy, or Venture Capital, preferably with exposure to the relevant industry/sector (e.g., technology, fintech, or digital assets).
- Deep expertise in M&A process management, deal structuring, valuation, and complex financial modeling.
- Proven ability to identify and articulate strategic rationales for acquisitions and investments.
- Exceptional project management skills, capable of coordinating multiple workstreams and managing cross-functional teams under tight deadlines.
- Strong negotiation, presentation, and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior internal and external stakeholders.
- Highly analytical, detail-oriented, and capable of synthesizing complex information into clear, actionable insights.
- A proactive, results-oriented mindset with a high degree of intellectual curiosity and ownership.
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or a related quantitative field; MBA is a plus.
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- Free lunch and snacks
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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HEAD OF ADVISORY
Cape Town, Johannesburg
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
Luno is a market-leading crypto exchange on a mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system, and we are building a market-leading Compliance function to support these goals. With regional teams in place across APAC, Africa and Europe, including the UK, we are now looking to strengthen these capabilities with a Head of Compliance Advisory to manage the Compliance Advisory team across these regions.
We are growing fast, and this is a superb opportunity to make your mark in a truly outstanding organisation.
The role in a nutshell:
We are looking for a driven, proactive, and ambitious Head of Compliance Advisory who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is capable of leading our global team of Compliance Officers. This role is central to enabling Luno's responsible growth across South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Malaysia and Indonesia, and our future expansion markets.
Reporting to the Global Head of Compliance & Anti-Financial Crime, you will lead and mentor the Compliance Advisory team, setting the global strategy for regulatory advice and to provide support and advice to the business. You will be a senior partner to business, product and regional leaders, ensuring Luno develops and launches products in a robust, responsible, and compliant manner. The successful candidate must be passionate about compliance, an inspiring leader, and motivated to enhance our strong compliance culture across the organisation.
Your mission will be:
In your first six months, you will:
A little about you:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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HEAD OF ADVISORY
Cape Town, Johannesburg
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
Luno is a market-leading crypto exchange on a mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system, and we are building a market-leading Compliance function to support these goals. With regional teams in place across APAC, Africa and Europe, including the UK, we are now looking to strengthen these capabilities with a Head of Compliance Advisory to manage the Compliance Advisory team across these regions.
We are growing fast, and this is a superb opportunity to make your mark in a truly outstanding organisation.
The role in a nutshell:
We are looking for a driven, proactive, and ambitious Head of Compliance Advisory who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is capable of leading our global team of Compliance Officers. This role is central to enabling Luno's responsible growth across South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Malaysia and Indonesia, and our future expansion markets.
Reporting to the Global Head of Compliance & Anti-Financial Crime, you will lead and mentor the Compliance Advisory team, setting the global strategy for regulatory advice and to provide support and advice to the business. You will be a senior partner to business, product and regional leaders, ensuring Luno develops and launches products in a robust, responsible, and compliant manner. The successful candidate must be passionate about compliance, an inspiring leader, and motivated to enhance our strong compliance culture across the organisation.
Your mission will be:
- Lead, mentor, and manage the global team of Country Compliance Officers, fostering a high-performance culture and ensuring the team is resourced to meet business needs.
- Define and own the global Compliance Advisory framework, ensuring a consistent, scalable and business-enabling approach to providing regulatory advice.
- Act as the senior advisory partner and final point of escalation for Fleets, Product, Engineering and the Countries teams on the development of new products, services and market-entry strategies.
- Oversee the team's execution of key compliance tasks, including horizon scanning, gap analysis, assurance reviews and policy development and implementation, ensuring global standards are effectively localised.
- Lead the global Compliance risk assessment process, working with Country Compliance Officers to gather local inputs and ensure the methodology is robust.
- Provide strategic oversight of regulatory reporting, including Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) and Cash Transaction Reports (CTRs), ensuring quality and timeliness.
- Manage senior relationships with business stakeholders, acting as the senior point of contact for global or escalated compliance matters.
- Partner with the Global Head of Compliance & Anti-Financial Crime to set the strategic direction for the function, reporting on team performance, regulatory risk, and advisory matters to senior management.
- Collaborate strategically with the Heads of Anti-Financial Crime, Legal, and Onboarding to provide seamless, end-to-end compliance support to the business.
In your first six months, you will:
- Immerse yourself in Luno, ensuring you have a deep understanding of our business, products, and customers globally.
- Build strong relationships with your team of Country Compliance Officers, the wider Luno team, and key business stakeholders.
- Assume full ownership of the global Compliance Advisory function, identifying and executing a strategic plan for continuous improvement and scalability.
A little about you:
- A Bachelor’s degree in law or a related field.
- At least 8-10+ years of compliance / AML/CFT experience in the financial services, payments, or fintech industry.
- Demonstrable (3+ years) experience in the cryptocurrency / VASP industry is a significant advantage.
- Proven leadership experience, with a track record of managing, mentoring, and developing a distributed, multi-jurisdictional team.
- Deep subject matter expertise in global AML/CFT standards (FATF), sanctions, and VASP-specific regulations (e.g., Travel Rule).
- Extensive experience working across multiple jurisdictions. Direct experience with the regulatory landscapes in our key markets (UK, Australia, South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, Nigeria) is a significant advantage.
- Professional compliance, AML/CFT, or risk-related certifications (e.g., CAMS, ICA) are highly desirable.
- Proven experience in building frameworks and managing senior relationships with regulators and banking partners.
- A pragmatic and responsible approach to balancing regulatory obligations with business enablement.
- The ability to collaborate and influence across geographies, functional areas and at an executive level.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, both written and verbal.
- A strong sense of ownership, integrity, and commitment to delivering excellence.
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- Free lunch and snacks
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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PRODUCT DATA SCIENTIST
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
The Data community at Luno, comprising Data Engineers, Scientists and Analysts, uncovers valuable insights from the vast amounts of data we gather from our customers and platform. These insights are crucial for guiding our product development and business strategy.
As a Product Data Scientist joining Luno, you would be part of the Product Analytics team providing high quality insights into our product through experimentation and advanced analytics.
Our current technology stack includes Databricks, Thoughtspot, Amplitude and Segment.
The role in a nutshell:
As we accelerate on our mission to put crypto in everyone’s hands, your role is to use data and insights to drive better product decisions and influence the Luno product strategy. This will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams to find, size, prioritise, evaluate and iterate on problems and opportunities to enhance our product.
This is a hands-on product analytics role focused on experimentation, customer behaviour and data-informed decision-making. While there may be opportunities to apply modelling or machine learning techniques for specific use cases, this is not a production ML-focused role.
Your mission will be:
A little about you:
The ideal Lunaut will have:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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PRODUCT DATA SCIENTIST
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
The Data community at Luno, comprising Data Engineers, Scientists and Analysts, uncovers valuable insights from the vast amounts of data we gather from our customers and platform. These insights are crucial for guiding our product development and business strategy.
As a Product Data Scientist joining Luno, you would be part of the Product Analytics team providing high quality insights into our product through experimentation and advanced analytics.
Our current technology stack includes Databricks, Thoughtspot, Amplitude and Segment.
The role in a nutshell:
As we accelerate on our mission to put crypto in everyone’s hands, your role is to use data and insights to drive better product decisions and influence the Luno product strategy. This will involve collaborating with cross-functional teams to find, size, prioritise, evaluate and iterate on problems and opportunities to enhance our product.
This is a hands-on product analytics role focused on experimentation, customer behaviour and data-informed decision-making. While there may be opportunities to apply modelling or machine learning techniques for specific use cases, this is not a production ML-focused role.
Your mission will be:
- Partner with cross-functional product teams including Product Managers, Designers and Engineers to provide product analytics for data-informed decisions.
- Partner with product and marketing teams to evaluate and optimise growth initiatives across acquisition, activation, retention and re-engagement.
- Empower teams with the data, tools and skills required to prioritise initiatives and shape the product roadmap.
- Design and implement event tracking data to unlock actionable insights.
- Define, understand, and test opportunities and levers to improve the product through insights and recommendations.
- Partner with product and marketing teams to design high-quality experiments, interpret results and ensure learnings translate into action.
- Apply analytical techniques such as segmentation, funnel and cohort analysis to deeply understand customer behaviours and journeys.
- Use data and analytics to inform, influence and support execution of the product strategy.
A little about you:
- You enjoy using data to understand complex customer behaviour and turn ambiguity into clear, actionable insights.
- You approach problems in a structured way, forming hypotheses, testing assumptions and iterating based on evidence.
- You’re comfortable influencing product and growth decisions without direct ownership, using data, clear reasoning and storytelling.
- You can balance speed and analytical rigour, knowing when fast, directional insight is more valuable than perfectly polished analysis.
- You communicate confidently with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, adapting your message to your audience.
- You enjoy collaborating with cross-functional partners and value collective outcomes over individual credit.
- You’re curious by nature and motivated to keep learning as tools, techniques and the data landscape evolve.
The ideal Lunaut will have:
- Typically 3+ years of experience in a data, analytics or product analytics role.
- A strong foundation in quantitative disciplines such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or Economics (degree or equivalent practical experience).
- Experience partnering with cross-functional product teams to influence product direction, prioritisation and decision-making using data.
- Demonstrable experience designing, analysing and interpreting experiments (e.g. A/B tests) in a product environment.
- Hands-on experience working with event-level product data to understand customer behaviour and journeys.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases.
- Experience using data visualisation and BI tools (e.g. Thoughtspot or similar) to communicate insights.
- Working proficiency in Python (or similar) for analysis and statistical work.
- The ability to translate ambiguous business problems into clear analytical questions and actionable insights.
- Confidence communicating data-driven insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Comfort operating in fast-moving, evolving environments and adapting your approach as context changes.
- An interest in crypto and financial products, and curiosity to learn more about the space.
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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HEAD OF ALM
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
As the Head of ALM, you will be a senior strategic leader responsible for the comprehensive management and optimization of the company's entire balance sheet to support long-term financial health and strategic decision-making. You will establish and lead the Asset Liability Management framework, providing direct oversight to the Associate Director of Treasury Risk in their first-line-of-defense capacity. Your role is pivotal in managing capital, funding, investments, and financial risks to ensure the company's stability and enable its growth.
Your mission will be:
A little about you:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status..
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HEAD OF ALM
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
As the Head of ALM, you will be a senior strategic leader responsible for the comprehensive management and optimization of the company's entire balance sheet to support long-term financial health and strategic decision-making. You will establish and lead the Asset Liability Management framework, providing direct oversight to the Associate Director of Treasury Risk in their first-line-of-defense capacity. Your role is pivotal in managing capital, funding, investments, and financial risks to ensure the company's stability and enable its growth.
Your mission will be:
- Risk Framework & Oversight: Design, implement, and lead a comprehensive ALM framework. Provide direct oversight of the first-line-of-defense treasury risk function, ensuring robust monitoring and management of Market Risk (including interest rate risk), Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, and Operational Risk across all treasury activities.
- Strategic Capital Management: Drive capital planning to identify and manage capital excess or shortfalls. Oversee risk-based capital allocation for new initiatives and manage the balance sheet in accordance with regulatory capital requirements.
- Balance Sheet Optimization: Lead the ongoing assessment and optimization of the balance sheet structure across the business, analyzing assets and liabilities to enhance performance and mitigate risk. Conduct balance sheet-wide stress testing to ensure resilience.
- Funding & Liquidity Strategy: Develop and execute the company's long-term funding strategy to ensure stability and efficiency. Oversee the liquidity management framework, including contingency funding plans, to ensure the company can meet all obligations.
- Investment & Hedging Strategy: Manage the company's excess working capital through effective investment portfolio management. Design and oversee the management of hedge portfolios to mitigate financial risks, including currency and interest rate exposures.
- Reporting & Analysis: Prepare and present strategic reports on the company's ALM position, capital adequacy, risk exposures, and portfolio performance to senior management and the board of directors.
- Team Leadership: Build, mentor, and manage a high-performing team of ALM and risk professionals to support the company's strategic financial objectives.
A little about you:
- Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline. An advanced degree in a related area is preferred.
- 10+ years of progressive corporate treasury experience, with a focus on ALM, capital management, and financial risk.
- Experience with crypto or wallet operations at a crypto or fintech company.
- Strong understanding of financial markets, including interest rate, currency, and derivatives markets.
- Excellent analytical and modeling skills.
- Ability to interact, influence, and build relationships at all levels of seniority and across all functions within an organization.
- Proven ability to lead and develop a team.
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- Free lunch and snacks
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status..
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HEAD OF TREASURY OPERATIONS
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
As the Head of Treasury Operations, you will lead the team responsible for the day-to-day management of our treasury functions. You will be responsible for ensuring the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of our cash management, crypto operations, and payment systems. You will play a key role in developing and implementing best-in-class treasury operations processes and controls to support our global growth.
Your mission will be:
A little about you:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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HEAD OF TREASURY OPERATIONS
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
As the Head of Treasury Operations, you will lead the team responsible for the day-to-day management of our treasury functions. You will be responsible for ensuring the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of our cash management, crypto operations, and payment systems. You will play a key role in developing and implementing best-in-class treasury operations processes and controls to support our global growth.
Your mission will be:
- Strategic leadership: Provide strategic direction and leadership for the Treasury Operations team, ensuring alignment with the overall goals of the Treasury, Finance, Product and Engineering departments.
- Process automation and scaling: Drive the automation and continuous improvement of all treasury operations processes to enhance efficiency and scalability as the business grows.
- Cash and liquidity operations: Oversee global cash management, including forecasting, positioning, and ensuring optimal liquidity for both fiat and cryptocurrencies.
- Crypto-asset management: Manage the operational aspects of our crypto-asset holdings, including custody, settlements, and reconciliation, ensuring the highest level of security and control.
- System management: Own and optimize our Treasury Management System and other financial systems to ensure data integrity and robust reporting capabilities.
- Risk and control: Develop, implement, and monitor a strong internal control framework for all treasury operations to mitigate operational, financial, and reputational risk.
- Stakeholder collaboration: Work closely with product, engineering, and compliance teams to support new product launches and ensure treasury requirements are met.
- Team development: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of treasury professionals.
A little about you:
- Bachelor’s in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline. An advanced degree in a related area is preferred.
- 7-10 years of progressive experience in corporate treasury operations, with a significant portion at a crypto or fintech company.
- Proven experience in scaling treasury operations in a high-growth environment.
- Deep expertise in cash management, payments, and crypto-asset operations.
- Strong experience with Treasury Management Systems (TMS) like IT2/ Kyriba.
- Excellent leadership and team management skills.
- Ability to think strategically while maintaining a strong attention to detail and a hands-on approach.
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- Free lunch and snacks
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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SENIOR JAVA ENGINEER
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
As a Lead Java Engineer at Luno, you’ll be at the core of our financial exchange transformation, through migrating and modernising our architecture to deliver resilient, high-performance trading systems. You’ll help design the backbone of our global exchange infrastructure, ensuring it scales reliably for millions of customers worldwide. Join us and make a tangible impact on building a new global financial system.
Your mission will be:
A little about you:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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SENIOR JAVA ENGINEER
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
As a Lead Java Engineer at Luno, you’ll be at the core of our financial exchange transformation, through migrating and modernising our architecture to deliver resilient, high-performance trading systems. You’ll help design the backbone of our global exchange infrastructure, ensuring it scales reliably for millions of customers worldwide. Join us and make a tangible impact on building a new global financial system.
Your mission will be:
- Architecture Migration: Lead the design and implementation of core exchange services as we migrate legacy components into a modern, modular Java-based architecture.
- System Optimisation: Analyse and optimise matching engine, order routing, and settlement workflows for latency, throughput, and fault tolerance.
- Scalable Design: Contribute to a globally distributed, high-availability trading platform with a strong focus on resilience, monitoring, and observability.
- Collaborative Delivery: Work closely with product managers, architects, and fellow engineers to ensure features are delivered on time and aligned with business and compliance needs.
- Technical Leadership: Guide design patterns, performance tuning, and best practices in large-scale system development.
- Code Quality & Governance: Maintain high-quality code standards with strong test coverage, documentation, and adherence to regulatory and operational controls.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve system reliability, reduce technical debt, and streamline deployment pipelines.
- Mentorship: Coach and mentor engineers across the team, with a focus on scalable Java development and financial systems design.
A little about you:
- Proven Seniority: Proven experience as a senior or lead-level software engineer, with deep expertise in large-scale, distributed Java systems—ideally within financial markets, trading, or exchange infrastructure.
- Java Expertise: Strong proficiency with Java, JVM internals, concurrency, performance tuning, and frameworks such as Spring Boot. Experience with event-driven systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.) is highly valuable.
- Financial Systems Understanding: A solid understanding of trading and exchange systems (order books, matching engines, risk management, or settlement workflows).
- Computer Science Fundamentals: Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, networking, and global-scale system design.
- Architecture & Technical Change: A track record of driving architectural change, including re-platforming or migrating legacy systems to modern, scalable architectures.
- Leadership & Collaboration: Strong collaboration, leadership, and mentoring skills, with proven ability to guide teams through complex system migrations.
- Customer & Compliance Focus: Ability to balance technical design with reliability, compliance, and operational governance in a regulated financial environment
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events.
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - BACKEND
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
We're building teams to help us succeed in our mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system. As a Senior engineer, you’ll be joining a group of highly motivated software engineers who you’ll work collaboratively with across our pods.
As a fast-growing company with offices around the world, you’ll immediately see how your contributions directly impact both our internal users and client experience. Many of the problems we are solving result in trail blazing solutions which can’t be found on Stack Overflow; so we’re looking for engineers who flourish working in a complex domain.
Your mission will be:
A little about you:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER - BACKEND
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
We're building teams to help us succeed in our mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system. As a Senior engineer, you’ll be joining a group of highly motivated software engineers who you’ll work collaboratively with across our pods.
As a fast-growing company with offices around the world, you’ll immediately see how your contributions directly impact both our internal users and client experience. Many of the problems we are solving result in trail blazing solutions which can’t be found on Stack Overflow; so we’re looking for engineers who flourish working in a complex domain.
Your mission will be:
- Build and maintain secure, distributed microservices that support custody operations for millions of customers globally.
- Design and implement services and tooling that integrate with blockchains and custody infrastructure.
- Contribute to the architecture and security of systems that handle key management, transaction orchestration, and blockchain communication.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to define, design, and deliver new custody-related capabilities.
- Write testable, maintainable, and robust code that supports high-reliability systems.
- Investigate and resolve issues, continuously improving the performance and resilience of custody and blockchain-related services.
- Work on features that directly influence customer asset safety, operational reliability, and Luno’s core crypto infrastructure.
A little about you:
- Background in computer science in areas such as algorithms, data structures, and software design.
- Experience building systems in crypto, fintech, or similarly complex, high-trust domains preferred
- Proven experience leading development efforts and guiding engineering teams through end-to-end project delivery.
- Extensive programming experience in Backend based technologies. Go(lang) is preferable.
- A continuous improvement mindset.
- BSc/MSc/PhD in computer science or other technical discipline, or equivalent working experience.
- To be friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.
- Kotlin, Swift & Angular
- Go(lang), gRPC
- Kubernetes (EKS), Docker
- CloudFlare, CloudFront, nginx
- MySQL (RDS), Redis (ElastiCache), etc
- Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Jenkins
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events.
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER
Cape Town & Johannesburg
About Luno
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards. We don’t do memecoins.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team
You will work in Fleet Experience that is responsible for building products that make it easy for our customers to invest in crypto. Your role, as Product Manager, will be to find customer value. You will apply the craft of Product Management to find customer problems and validate potential solutions to those problems.
The role in a nutshell
Luno is a market leading cryptocurrency exchange in emerging markets. Having earned our customers’ trust through the ups and downs of multiple crypto cycles, Luno continues to expand its cryptocurrency and digital assets offering in line with its strategy in service of its customers’ needs around the world.
We are looking for a crypto-minded Product Manager that will own the maintenance and expansion of our universe of crypto and digital assets listed on the platform. The role owns the lifecycle of all blockchain-related products and infrastructure, as well as custody of those assets. You define and execute the strategy for token listings, blockchain integrations, custody, staking, on-chain analytics, and Web3 services. You act as the bridge between the exchange’s core platform and the evolving blockchain ecosystem, ensuring scalability, compliance, and innovation.
This role drives innovation through customer discovery ensuring that Luno is the pre-eminent exchange in its core markets.
Your mission will be
A little about you
Life at Luno
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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SENIOR PRODUCT MANAGER
Cape Town & Johannesburg
About Luno
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards. We don’t do memecoins.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team
You will work in Fleet Experience that is responsible for building products that make it easy for our customers to invest in crypto. Your role, as Product Manager, will be to find customer value. You will apply the craft of Product Management to find customer problems and validate potential solutions to those problems.
The role in a nutshell
Luno is a market leading cryptocurrency exchange in emerging markets. Having earned our customers’ trust through the ups and downs of multiple crypto cycles, Luno continues to expand its cryptocurrency and digital assets offering in line with its strategy in service of its customers’ needs around the world.
We are looking for a crypto-minded Product Manager that will own the maintenance and expansion of our universe of crypto and digital assets listed on the platform. The role owns the lifecycle of all blockchain-related products and infrastructure, as well as custody of those assets. You define and execute the strategy for token listings, blockchain integrations, custody, staking, on-chain analytics, and Web3 services. You act as the bridge between the exchange’s core platform and the evolving blockchain ecosystem, ensuring scalability, compliance, and innovation.
This role drives innovation through customer discovery ensuring that Luno is the pre-eminent exchange in its core markets.
Your mission will be
- List cryptocurrencies and digital assets on Luno’s platform in accordance with our digital asset strategy.
- Develop and manage the product roadmap for all blockchain and crypto-related initiatives, including integrations with new Layer-1 and Layer-2 networks.
- Lead evaluation and execution of new token listings, coordinating with legal, compliance, and risk teams for successful launches.
- Collaborate with product, data science, marketing and legal teams to ensure a coherent end-to-end coin delivery process:
- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate blockchain nodes, wallets, and smart contract systems
- Define technical and functional requirements for blockchain infrastructure and API enhancements.
- Drive cross-functional coordination across trading, compliance, risk, and custody to ensure operational readiness that supports liquidity across Luno’s crypto products.
- Analyze blockchain data and market trends to identify new opportunities for user acquisition and retention.
- Ensure compliance with AML/KYC and blockchain travel rule frameworks.
- Where required, build relationships with blockchain foundations, ecosystem partners, and external technology vendors.
- Use your crypto experience to identify areas of innovation in adjacent product opportunities in the crypto industry and drive collaboration in our product teams to unlock these opportunities.
- Influence and educate teams in blockchain technology and crypto currencies across the business.
A little about you
- You have at least 3 years experience as a Product Manager, and responsible for launch of new products and features, preferably within the fintech or cryptocurrency industry.
- Evidence that you are a subject matter expert in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies. Experience with smart contracts and tokenisation of assets a bonus.
- Understanding of the theory and fundamentals of underlying crypto economic systems traversing the social, protocol and application layers.
- Demonstrated understanding of the cryptocurrency asset ecosystems evolving around the leading blockchains.
- Proven experience working with multi-disciplinary teams to both create and implement a strategy of your own making, preferably in the fintech or crypto industry.
- Experience working with engineering teams in an Agile manner for continuous delivery, both to integrate with third-parties, and in developing new fintech and/or crypto products.
- Demonstrated ability to inspire with a clear passion for this space when communicating to internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong track record of internal and external stakeholder management
Life at Luno
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Enjoy an Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave, which increases with your length of service, plus the option to buy or sell up to five days of leave.
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and classes hosted by our Lunauts
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Zero fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
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BACKEND ENGINEER
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
We're building teams to help us succeed in our mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system. As an intermediate engineer, you’ll be joining a group of highly motivated software engineers who you’ll work collaboratively with across our pods.
As a fast-growing company with offices around the world, you’ll immediately see how your contributions directly impact both our internal users and client experience. Many of the problems we are solving result in trail blazing solutions which can’t be found on Stack Overflow; so we’re looking for engineers who flourish working in a complex domain.
Your mission will be:
A little about you:
What stack we work on:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
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BACKEND ENGINEER
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
We're building teams to help us succeed in our mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system. As an intermediate engineer, you’ll be joining a group of highly motivated software engineers who you’ll work collaboratively with across our pods.
As a fast-growing company with offices around the world, you’ll immediately see how your contributions directly impact both our internal users and client experience. Many of the problems we are solving result in trail blazing solutions which can’t be found on Stack Overflow; so we’re looking for engineers who flourish working in a complex domain.
Your mission will be:
- Build distributed microservices that are accessed by 10m customers from across the globe.
- Design, build and maintain advanced applications services.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Write testable, maintainable code for robustness and reliability.
- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
- Write code that directly affects users, the company and the Bitcoin ecosystem.
A little about you:
- Background in computer science in areas such as algorithms, data structures, and software design.
- Proven experience leading development efforts and guiding engineering teams through end-to-end project delivery.
- Extensive programming experience in Backend based technologies. Go(lang) is preferable.
- A continuous improvement mindset.
- BSc/MSc/PhD in computer science or other technical discipline, or equivalent working experience.
- To be friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.
What stack we work on:
- Kotlin, Swift & Angular
- Go(lang), gRPC
- Kubernetes (EKS), Docker
- CloudFlare, CloudFront, nginx
- MySQL (RDS), Redis (ElastiCache), etc
- Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Jenkins
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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SENIOR AWS CLOUD SECURITY SPECIALIST
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
The Cloud Security team at Luno is responsible for identifying security threats and improvement areas within our cloud hosted resources, and ensuring that we both strive to implement best practices everywhere and detect any deviations. This team works closely with engineering and IT operations to ensure the best security practices are followed in both areas of the business.
About the role:
We're looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Security Specialist to be a force multiplier across the organisation, someone who brings deep cloud security expertise, strong architectural thinking, and the confidence to challenge assumptions when needed.
You’ll work hands-on across our AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD and developer environments, surfacing risks early, designing secure patterns, automating controls, and strengthening the foundational security posture that underpins a global crypto exchange.
This is a role for someone who wants to build, influence, advise, and elevate — not just run scanners.
Your mission will be:
A little about you:
Life at Luno:
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
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SENIOR AWS CLOUD SECURITY SPECIALIST
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
The Cloud Security team at Luno is responsible for identifying security threats and improvement areas within our cloud hosted resources, and ensuring that we both strive to implement best practices everywhere and detect any deviations. This team works closely with engineering and IT operations to ensure the best security practices are followed in both areas of the business.
About the role:
We're looking for a Senior AWS Cloud Security Specialist to be a force multiplier across the organisation, someone who brings deep cloud security expertise, strong architectural thinking, and the confidence to challenge assumptions when needed.
You’ll work hands-on across our AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD and developer environments, surfacing risks early, designing secure patterns, automating controls, and strengthening the foundational security posture that underpins a global crypto exchange.
This is a role for someone who wants to build, influence, advise, and elevate — not just run scanners.
Your mission will be:
- Continuously assess and uplift the security posture of our AWS and Kubernetes environments through automation and secure-by-design principles.
- Partner closely with Engineering, SRE, and IT Ops to deliver practical, business-enabling security solutions — not blockers.
- Analyse existing infrastructure and microservice architectures, highlight systemic risks, and define secure patterns that scale.
- Lead security input across new projects from design → delivery, ensuring resilient architectures and guardrails are in place early.
- Develop proof-of-concepts, hardening strategies, and safe rollout plans for improvements.
- Strengthen detection and response capabilities by improving security telemetry, triage, anomaly detection, and automation
A little about you:
- Advanced AWS expertise — ideally with Professional or Specialty certifications.
- Strong experience in Kubernetes, cluster security, and containerised workloads.
- Background in Cloud Engineering / SRE / DevOps / Systems with strong security instincts.
- Proficiency in automation and scripting (Python preferred).
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and secure IaC patterns.
- A solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and the SDLC.
- A mindset that balances pragmatic engineering with strong security judgement.
- Curiosity, ownership, and a genuine passion for learning and improving systems
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events.
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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LEAD JAVA ENGINEER
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
As a Lead Java Engineer at Luno, you’ll be at the core of our financial exchange transformation, through migrating and modernising our architecture to deliver resilient, high-performance trading systems. You’ll help design the backbone of our global exchange infrastructure, ensuring it scales reliably for millions of customers worldwide. Join us and make a tangible impact on building a new global financial system.
Your mission will be:
- Architecture Migration: Lead the design and implementation of core exchange services as we migrate legacy components into a modern, modular Java-based architecture.
- System Optimisation: Analyse and optimise matching engine, order routing, and settlement workflows for latency, throughput, and fault tolerance.
- Scalable Design: Contribute to a globally distributed, high-availability trading platform with a strong focus on resilience, monitoring, and observability.
- Collaborative Delivery: Work closely with product managers, architects, and fellow engineers to ensure features are delivered on time and aligned with business and compliance needs.
- Technical Leadership: Guide design patterns, performance tuning, and best practices in large-scale system development.
- Code Quality & Governance: Maintain high-quality code standards with strong test coverage, documentation, and adherence to regulatory and operational controls.
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve system reliability, reduce technical debt, and streamline deployment pipelines.
- Mentorship: Coach and mentor engineers across the team, with a focus on scalable Java development and financial systems design.
A little about you:
- Proven Seniority: Proven experience as a senior or lead-level software engineer, with deep expertise in large-scale, distributed Java systems—ideally within financial markets, trading, or exchange infrastructure.
- Java Expertise: Strong proficiency with Java, JVM internals, flyweights, performance tuning. Experience with event sourcing using event streaming platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc.
- Financial Systems Understanding: A solid understanding of trading and exchange systems (order books, matching engines, risk management, or settlement workflows).
- Computer Science Fundamentals: Strong foundations in algorithms, data structures, networking, and global-scale system design.
- Architecture & Technical Change: A track record of driving architectural change, including re-platforming or migrating legacy systems to modern, scalable architectures.
- Leadership & Collaboration: Strong collaboration, leadership, and mentoring skills, with proven ability to guide teams through complex system migrations.
- Customer & Compliance Focus: Ability to balance technical design with reliability, compliance, and operational governance in a regulated financial environment
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events.
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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QUANTITATIVE SOFTWARE ENGINEER
South Africa
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
As a Quantitative Software Engineer (Quant Dev) at Luno, you will design, build, and operate the high-performance systems and mathematical models that underpin our trading, pricing, and market-making capabilities.
You will sit at the intersection of quantitative research and production engineering, translating quantitative ideas, models, and strategies into robust, low-latency, production-grade systems that operate reliably in a 24/7 global market. Your work will directly impact liquidity, pricing quality, risk management, and customer outcomes.
Your mission will be:
Quantitative Strategy Engineering
- Partner closely with quantitative researchers to implement, optimise, and productionise trading and pricing models.
- Translate mathematical models, research prototypes, and proofs-of-concept into scalable, reliable production systems.
- Validate assumptions, edge cases, and numerical stability when moving models from research to live environments.
- Build and evolve market-making, pricing, and execution logic across crypto markets.
- Develop automated internal transfer, rebalancing, and hedging mechanisms.
- Configuration: Add and refine console parameters to optimise for volume, spread, profit, or rebalancing.
- Profile, benchmark, and optimise code paths critical to trading performance.
- Implement regression testing, simulation, and backtesting frameworks to ensure correctness and risk controls.
- Ensure strategies and systems meet governance, auditability, and compliance requirements.
- Own initiatives end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Align technical delivery with OKRs and broader Treasury / Trading objectives.
- Work closely with Product and Engineering Managers to shape realistic priorities and timelines.
- Act as a bridge between quantitative research and engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers on quantitative systems, numerical correctness, and best practices in trading system design.
- Contribute to raising the overall bar for engineering excellence within the team.
Experience
- Proven experience as a software engineer, with exposure to or strong interest in quantitative finance, trading systems, or financial infrastructure.
- Experience working with trading models, pricing systems, or data-driven decision engines is a strong advantage.
- Strong programming skills, particularly in Python, with solid foundations in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Experience writing production-grade, performance-sensitive systems.
- Familiarity with numerical computing, modelling, or statistical techniques is beneficial.
- Comfortable working with mathematical models and translating them into software.
- Able to reason about trade-offs between model sophistication, performance, and operational risk.
What stack we work on:
- Kotlin, Swift & Angular
- Go(lang), gRPC
- Kubernetes (EKS), Docker
- CloudFlare, CloudFront, nginx
- MySQL (RDS), Redis (ElastiCache), etc
- Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Jenkins
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events.
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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