Software Engineer (Frontend JavaScript, Customer-Facing)

takealot.com; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A major online retailer in South Africa is seeking a frontend developer to join their dynamic team. Your mission will include designing and developing new features while collaborating closely with other team members. Ideal candidates have advanced experience with HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript frameworks. The company promotes a hybrid working model, encouraging both on-site and remote work with a focus on personal growth and mentorship. Join us to bring innovative ideas to life!

Benefits

Market-related Total Remuneration Package

Flexible work environment

Mentorship programme

Access to online learning platforms

Social events and activities

Staff discount

Birthday leave

Latest tech tools

Confidential support services

Free parking

Qualifications

• Advanced experience with HTML5, CSS3, and UI/UX design implementation.
• Experience with CSS pre-compilers such as Less, Sass & SCSS.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling.
• Familiarity with object-oriented programming concepts.
• Ability to learn and evaluate new libraries and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and refine new features.
• Locate and resolve bugs and crashes.
• Collaborate with teammates on design and code reviews.
• Create modules and components for a functional site.
• Integrate with APIs using best practices.

Skills

HTML5

CSS3

Next JS

Unit testing

Async handling

Git

RESTful APIs

Agile development

Tools

Git

Jira

Confluence

Job description

South Africa

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

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: Over 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com and 2.7 million on Mr D. Show them what you can do.
• 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: 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 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
• 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:

• 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

• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling.
• 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
• 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 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. 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 of the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
• 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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