Software Engineer (Fulfilment Frontend) - Remote

Overview

Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer (Frontend Fulfilment) to join our team.

In Short

• 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.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering and a minimum of 5 years experience as a Front-End Developer writing advanced JavaScript code is required.
• If a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of experience as a Front-End Developer writing advanced JavaScript code.
• Very proficient in coding plain JavaScript from scratch.
• Understands inheritance in JavaScript and advanced JavaScript techniques.
• Appreciation and understanding of object-oriented programming concepts.
• Solid experience writing performant front-end JavaScript code based on MVC JavaScript Frameworks (React or Angular, Vue, etc.).
• Experience in HTML5, CSS3 and taking high definition UI & UX designs and producing fast efficient frontend code.
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling.
• Knowledge and experience in cross-browser and cross-device compatible solutions including mobile.
• 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.
• Experience producing responsive HTML designs.

Benefits

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs.
• No doors: We aren’t fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments.
• 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.
• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders.
• Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events.
• Staff discount: Millions of products across 28 departments.
• Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way.
• Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one.
• 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.
• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk.