Software Engineer; Frontend JavaScript, Customer-Facing

Position: Software Engineer (Frontend JavaScript, Customer-Facing)

, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Senior
Software Engineer (Frontend JavaScript, Customer-Facing) to join our team.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us!

What we offer

• Scale: Over 4 million happy shoppers shop online on  and 2.7 million on Mr
  
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• Learn: We work with the best of the best. Work alongside leaders and upskill in record time.
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group. We like to promote from within.

The position reports to the Engineering Manager.

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
• Implement front-end JavaScript coding at an advanced level with a focus on performance, maintainability and testable code.
• 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

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering and a minimum of 8 years experience as a Front‑End Developer writing advanced JavaScript code is required.
• If a candidate does not have a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Diploma, an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 10 years of experience as a Front‑End Developer writing advanced JavaScript code.
• Very proficient in coding plain JavaScript from scratch.
• Understands inheritance in JavaScript and advanced JavaScript techniques.
• Solid experience writing performant front‑end JavaScript code based in React.js.
• Advanced Experience in HTML5, CSS3 and taking high definition UI & UX designs and producing fast efficient frontend code.

Advanced

Experience with CSS pre-compilers such as Less, Sass & SCSS

• Experience producing responsive HTML designs.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling.
• Knowledge and experience in cross‑browser and cross‑device compatible solutions including mobile.
• Appreciation and understanding of object‑oriented programming concepts.
• 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

Additional Desirable Skills

• Docker experience
• Kubernetes experience
• Next JS 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 developing eCommerce sites for retail
• 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 that allows full flexibility according to your needs.
• No doors
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  We aren't fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab, and make something great.
• Remote working
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  Love water‑cooler chats and working from home?  offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• Mentorship programme
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  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
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  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
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  Get to know the other extraordinary minds at  during regular social events and out‑of‑office activities (think hikes, mini‑golf,…