Software Engineer (Frontend JavaScript, Customer-Facing)

Takealot Group; South Africa; Hybrid; ZAR 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic South African e-commerce company is seeking a skilled frontend developer to join their innovative team. Responsibilities include designing and refining features, debugging, and collaborating with various teams. The ideal candidate will have experience in HTML5, CSS3, and be creative in problem-solving. A hybrid working model and mentorship program are key benefits offered to employees.

Benefits

Market-related Total Remuneration Package

Hybrid working model

Mentorship program

Access to online learning platforms

Staff discount

Birthday leave

Confidential counseling support

Free parking

Qualifications

• Experience in HTML5, CSS3 with UI & UX design knowledge.
• Advanced experience with CSS pre-compilers like Less, Sass, and SCSS.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling.
• Experience using Git for source control.
• Experience writing front-end unit tests.

Responsibilities

• Help design, develop and refine new features.
• Locate and resolve bugs and crashes.
• Brainstorm new ideas and concepts.
• Work closely with teammates on design and code reviews.
• Integrate with APIs using standard methods.

Skills

HTML5

CSS3

UI & UX design

Git

React JS

Next JS

Robot Framework

Agile development

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Unit test frameworks

Job description

Overview

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!

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

• 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
• React JS experience highly desirable
• 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, mini-golf, and more).
• 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. You’ll work on 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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