African payment infrastructure and enterprise systems builder
Badger & Bird Talent is positioned as a recruitment firm, but the tech stack—Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, Salesforce, AWS, GCP, Azure, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, React—paired with active projects around payment gateways, mobile money APIs, and cloud-native backends, suggests the company is simultaneously building infrastructure services. The hiring velocity (14 roles in 30 days across engineering, sales, data, and security) and pain-point focus on PCI compliance, latency, and rural broadband connectivity indicate a fintech or payments-platform play anchored in African markets.
Badger & Bird Talent operates as a talent consulting and recruitment business founded in 2025, based in Johannesburg with a core team of 2–10 people. The company emphasizes directness, empathy, and delivery in matching candidates with roles. Simultaneously, active projects signal deeper technical operations: payment infrastructure connecting African communities, PCI-aligned payment gateways, integration of mobile money and banking APIs, and enterprise transformations for major clients. The engineering-heavy hiring mix and infrastructure-scale challenges (high latency, high availability, scalability for complex models) suggest the business is either a services-delivery arm or a dual-sided platform combining recruitment with payments or fintech consulting.
Java, Spring Boot, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Salesforce (including Apex and Lightning Web Components), AWS, Azure, Python, Django, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, React, Next.js, and Okta. Currently adopting GCP and moving away from Angular.
Payment infrastructure for African markets, PCI-aligned payment gateways, mobile money and banking API integration, cloud-native backends, foundational systems architecture, and enterprise transformations for major clients.
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