Software Engineer (Fulfilment Frontend)

Takealot Group; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 30 000 - 70 000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative online retailer is seeking a talented Software Engineer specializing in frontend development. This dynamic company offers a flexible work environment, allowing you to thrive while tackling exciting challenges. You will collaborate with industry leaders to create and refine features that enhance the shopping experience for millions of users. With opportunities for growth and mentorship, this role is perfect for those eager to push boundaries and innovate in a fast-paced setting. Join a team that values creativity, accountability, and continuous learning, and make a significant impact in the tech space.

Benefits

Flexible Total Remuneration Package

Remote Working Options

Mentorship Programme

Access to Online Learning

Staff Discount

Birthday Leave

Latest Tech Tools

Confidential Counselling Support

Social Events

Free Parking

Qualifications

• Experience in developing high-quality frontend applications.
• Strong understanding of UI/UX design principles and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement new features for the frontend.
• Collaborate with designers and backend developers for integration.

Skills

HTML5

CSS3

React JS

Angular

Git

Asynchronous Request Handling

Unit Testing

UI Automation Scripts

Object-Oriented Programming

Creative Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Robot Framework

Job description

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. 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? Takealot.com 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 takealot.com 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): ReactJS, 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.

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