Software Engineer (Fulfilment Frontend)

Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer (Frontend Fulfilment) to join our team.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Who’s who in the tech space

The position reports to the Engineering Director.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Help design, develop, and refine new features.
• Locate and resolve bugs and crashes.
• Brainstorm new ideas and concepts.
• Work with teammates on design, code reviews, and estimation.
• Create modules and components to incorporate them together into a functional site.
• Work closely with designers, QA Analysts, and back-end developers, and integrate with the APIs using standard methods.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Appreciation and understanding of object-oriented programming concepts.
• Experience in HTML5, CSS3 and taking high definition UI & UX designs and producing fast efficient frontend code.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling.
• Advanced Experience with CSS pre-compilers such as Less, Sass & SCSS.
• You should love doing this kind of stuff! Not afraid to try new things just to see how they work.
• Able to evaluate and learn new libraries, frameworks, and concepts to validate whether they might be of value to the team.
• Experience using a source control solution such as Git.
• Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs using best practice and well-known libraries.
• Experience writing front-end unit tests.
• Worked within an agile development team.

The skills we need:

• Be accountable.
• Creative.
• Solutions oriented.
• Flexible.
• Take pride in your work.
• PHP experience is a bonus.
• React JS or Angular experience highly desirable.
• Full stack experience of any sort is advantageous.
• Experience working with unit test frameworks.
• Experience with writing UI Automation scripts using Robot Framework.
• Experience working with software development tools including Git, Jira and Confluence/Notion.

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs.
• No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments.
• Remote working: Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• Mentorship programme: Learn from the best.
• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more.
• Good times: Regular social events and out-of-office activities.
• Staff discount: Access to millions of products across 28 departments.
• Birthday leave: Enjoy your day off.
• Right tools, right job: Work on the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance.
• Tech stack (for days): ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and all things machine learning.
• Free parking: Convenient access to your workplace.

Like what you see?

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.

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