Website Capitec Bank
Capitec Bank is the largest retail bank in South Africa by client numbers and a leading digital bank, offering simplified personal and business banking solutions.
Capitec Bank is the largest retail bank in South Africa by client numbers and a leading digital bank, offering simplified personal and business banking solutions. It provides a range of financial products, including transactional, savings, and investment accounts, along with credit and insurance options. The bank also operates as a Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) with its Capitec Connect service, offering affordable prepaid data and airtime deals.
About the role:
- As a Machine Learning Engineer at Capitec is pivotal in shaping and executing the bank’s AI strategy. By collaborating with Data Scientists and Decision Scientists, you’ll enhance their efficiency through the development, implementation, and support of platform improvements. Your contributions will be crucial in positioning Capitec to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape where AI technologies are key strategic differentiators.
- This role leverages your deep understanding of machine learning models, from concept to deployment, and expertise in modern software development best practices, big data processing frameworks, and cloud environments whilst sitting in the risk division of the business. You’ll also be working extensively with Python, SQL, and advanced debugging techniques to ensure the delivery of scalable, robust, and production-ready predictive models
Our ideal candidate has:
- 4+ years of experience in any engineering role
- Honors degree or higher in any field
- Python and SQL experience
- TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, Hugging Face, LangChain, LangGraph, MLflow, RAG, and Transformers
- Big data frameworks – Hadoop/Kafka (PySpark)
- Github experience or Git
- AWS experience: S3, Redshift, SageMaker, Bedrock, Lambda
Competencies:
- Simplify and make it easy
- Earn and extend trust
- Plan, deliver and raise the bar
- Curious and continuously learns
- Act, learn and adapt
- Inspire optimism and persistence
- Have courage, disagree and commit
Education:
- Completed an Honors Degree or higher
