Senior Software Engineer (Fulfilment Frontend)

Takealot.Com; Gauteng; Hybrid; ZAR 80 000 - 120 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading online retailer in Gauteng is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Frontend Fulfilment) to join its dynamic team. The role involves designing and developing features, resolving issues, and collaborating closely with designers and back-end developers. Ideal candidates are proficient in HTML5, CSS3, and have experience in agile environments. The company offers a flexible remuneration package and opportunities for growth.

Benefits

Market related, Total Remuneration Package

Flexible working hours

Mentorship programme

Free access to online courses

Social events

Staff discounts

Birthday leave

Free parking

Qualifications

• Appreciation of object-oriented programming concepts.
• Experience in HTML5, CSS3, and efficient frontend code.
• Understanding of asynchronous request handling.
• Advanced experience with CSS pre-compilers like Less, Sass, and SCSS.
• Experience with RESTful APIs.
• Experience in writing front-end unit tests.
• Experience within an agile development team.

Responsibilities

• 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 for functionality.
• Work closely with designers, QA analysts, and back-end developers.

Skills

Accountability

Creative thinking

Solutions orientation

Flexibility

Pride in work

Willingness to try new things

Learning new libraries/frameworks

PHP

React JS

Angular

Full stack experience

Unit testing frameworks

UI Automation scripts

Git

Jira

Confluence

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.

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).

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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

Skills We Need

• Be accountable
• Creative
• Solutions oriented
• Flexible
• Take pride in your work
• 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
• 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 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) : 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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