Senior Software Engineer (Fulfilment Frontend)

Takealot Group; Gauteng; Hybrid; ZAR 600 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online retailer is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance their fulfillment frontend. You will design, develop, and refine features, ensuring high-quality user experiences. Ideal candidates have extensive knowledge in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, and experience in Agile environments. The role offers a flexible total remuneration package and a hybrid working model that combines the best of in-office and remote work.

Benefits

Market-related salary

Flexible total remuneration package

Great work environment

Qualifications

• Experience in HTML5, CSS3, and high definition UI & UX.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling.
• Experience writing front-end unit tests.
• Worked within an agile development team.

Responsibilities

• Help design, develop, and refine new features.
• Locate and resolve bugs and crashes.
• Create modules and components for a functional site.
• Work with designers, QA, and back-end developers on integrations.

Skills

Object-oriented programming

HTML5

CSS3

JavaScript

Git

RESTful APIs

Unit testing

Agile methodologies

Tools

ReactJS

Python

Scala

Kotlin

Swift

Git

Jira

Confluence

Robot Framework

Job description

Senior Software Engineer (Fulfilment Frontend) - South, 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.

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
• 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.

Remote working

We offer a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.

Tech stack (for days)

ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and all things machine learning.

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Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.