Senior Software Engineer; Fulfilment Frontend

Senior Software Engineer (Fulfilment Frontend) - South Africa

, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Senior 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  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:  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 Manager (Fulfilment Web).

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. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
• No doors
  :
  We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.
• Remote working
  :
  Love water cooler chats and working from home?  offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• Mentorship programme
  :
  We aren’t kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now’s your chance to be one of the best, by learning from the best.
• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning
  :
  Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more.
• Good times
  :
  Get to know the other extraordinary minds at  during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
• Staff discount
  :
  Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for?
• Birthday leave
  :
  Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.
• Right tools, right job
  :
  Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most
  :
  Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
• Tech stack (for days):
  React
  
  JS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.
• Free parking
  :
  No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).

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.