Time Attendance jobs Cape town

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Time Master, We are South Africa’s leading cloud-based Time & Attendance company, and we’re growing fast! Because of that, we’re now looking for a Dashboard Engineer to join our team.

In this job, you will help turn lots of tricky work data into simple, easy-to-understand dashboards that show everything in real time. This helps our clients make quick and smart decisions every day.

Do you have 4 years of experience working with time and attendance systems? If so, keep reading — this could be perfect for you!

If you love building dashboards, enjoy automation, and like working with data that moves through APIs, then we’d love to hear from you. You’ll also help make our user experience smooth, clear, and fun to use.

So, if you’re ready for something exciting, then this might just be the time and attendance job made for you!


🔧 Role Overview

As our Dashboard Engineer, you will build, improve, and make dashboards work really well inside the TimeMaster system.

You will work closely with our technical leads, product team, and support engineers to make sure clients can see everything instantly — like attendance, exceptions, overtime, compliance alerts, and payroll-ready data.

For this job, we need someone who loves details, thinks carefully, and is excited to make dashboards clean, accurate, and fast. Everything you create should help clients understand their data easily and quickly.


🧩 Key Responsibilities

  • First, build and keep dashboards working in real time on the TimeMaster cloud platform.
  • Next, bring in data from fingerprint devices, mobile apps, GPS, work schedules, and payroll systems.
  • Then, create visuals that are easy to understand for attendance, exceptions, overtime, shift rules, and productivity.
  • Also, make sure dashboards are fast, correct, and can handle many workers at lots of locations.
  • After that, work with the engineering team on APIs, webhooks, data setups, and event triggers.
  • In addition, help support teams fix any data mistakes or missing reports.
  • Moreover, use modern UX/UI standards so dashboards are simple and clear for everyone.
  • Furthermore, keep everything trackable and compliant for audits and rules.
  • Finally, improve dashboard reports for Paymaster, Sage, PaySpace, and all other connected payroll systems.

🎓 Requirements

Must-Have:

  • First, strong experience with dashboard tools like Power BI, Grafana, Metabase, Looker, or similar is required.
  • Next, a good understanding of SQL and how data is organised is very important.
  • Also, experience connecting and working with APIs is needed.
  • In addition, excellent communication and documentation skills are essential.
  • Furthermore, you must be able to follow project plans, complete tasks on time, and keep everyone updated.
  • Moreover, you should confidently speak with new clients and share your knowledge clearly.
  • Besides that, you must be able to work well both in a team and alone.
  • Finally, you need to handle a fast-moving environment with many clients and deadlines.

Nice to Have:

  • First, you need experience with Time & Attendance, Workforce Management, or Payroll systems.
  • Next, you should understand how biometric data works and is stored.
  • Then, know how front-end scanners connect to the back-end reports.
  • Also, be able to make work schedules and plan shifts for employees.
  • After that, you should be able to teach others how to use the dashboard.
  • Finally, have experience with workforce compliance reporting to make sure all the rules are followed.

🌍 Why Work at TimeMaster?

  • Work with one of Africa’s fastest-growing time and attendance systems.
  • See real impact: the dashboards and tools you build will be used every day by thousands of workers.
  • Join a helpful team with leaders who support you and solve problems together.
  • Enjoy a remote-friendly work style, so you can work from home or anywhere.
  • Grow your career: there are chances to move into senior engineering or product roles.
  • Be part of a company that works with top payroll systems like Paymaster, PaySpace, Sage, and more.

📨 How to Apply

Send your CV and 1 page coverletter talking about yourslef to:
📧 glen@timemaster.co.za