Chat commerce and messaging platform with in-chat payments
Clickatell runs a chat commerce and messaging platform built on WhatsApp Business API, Kafka, AWS SQS and a Spark/Hadoop/Hive data layer, a stack tuned for high-volume transactional traffic. Accelerating hiring centers on engineering in South Africa, alongside finance roles focused on budgeting, reforecasting and investment due diligence. Product hiring targets self-serve funnel friction and AI-enabled capabilities such as Chat-2-Pay.
Clickatell, founded in 2000 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, provides a platform that lets businesses engage, sell to and support customers through chat channels. Its offering spans SMS and mobile messaging, two-factor authentication and one-time passcodes, mobile banking and marketing, and in-chat payments. The company is privately held with 201–500 employees and has offices in Canada, South Africa and Nigeria. Its customers are brands using chat for purchasing, customer service and support across the consumer lifecycle.
Clickatell uses Python, Java, C++, Spring Boot, React, Angular and TypeScript, with Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, Spark, Hadoop and Hive on AWS, Azure and GCP, plus Salesforce and HubSpot.
Current hiring is concentrated in South Africa, led by engineering with additional finance, product and research roles at mid, senior, manager and director levels.
Clickatell is expanding chat commerce solutions globally, building Chat-2-Pay, adding AI-enabled product capabilities and optimizing its self-serve funnel.
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