💼 Full-Time Position

Machine Learning Engineer

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DataFin Recruitment
📍 Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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Location
Cape Town, South Africa
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Posted
June 04, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

ENVIRONMENT:


A fast-paced FinTech company seeks a passionate Machine Learning Engineer (MLOps focus) to power instant lending decisions - no humans in the loop. Its models drive credit risk, portfolio management, and lifecycle decisioning with the biggest challenge being moving models from Data Science into reliable production systems. They’re looking for you to bridge that gap and ensure that every model built makes it into production—fast, reliable, and cost-efficient. The ideal candidate will require a Postgraduate Degree in a numerate discipline such as Statistics or Mathematics or Software Engineering or a related field with 3+ years’ experience in ML Engineering, Data Engineering, or Software Engineering with focus on ML deployment. You also need a proven track record of deploying ML models into production (SageMaker, Lambda, Step Functions, or equivalent), strong SQL, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Python, or JavaScript & AWS infrastructure (EC2, ECS or EKS, S3, Lambda, G...