Mr D - Senior Developer at takealot.com

What You’ll Be Building

• As a Senior Developer at Mr D, you’ll architect and develop systems that handle millions of transactions and solve complex technical challenges at scale. You’ll work on everything that fuels the Mr D experience with the freedom to explore new technologies and interesting patterns.
• You’ll be designing and maintaining secure, scalable APIs, developing distributed backend systems with stateless architectures, and working with event streaming technologies. From containerized microservices to cloud-native solutions, you’ll be at the forefront of modern software engineering.

What We’re Looking For

Technical Foundation

• We need someone with a thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, object oriented concepts, data structures, and algorithms.
•  Your Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) should be backed by 5+ years of hands-on Software Development experience.

Core Technical Skills

• Python & *nix expertise - You’re comfortable in Unix/Linux environments and passionate about Python development
• Distributed Systems - Experience developing distributed backend systems and stateless architectures
• API Design - Proven ability to design and maintain secure and scalable APIs
• Data & Streaming - Hands-on experience with event streaming, relational & non-relational datastores
• Cloud & Containers - Experience with containerization and cloud service providers

Nice-to-Have Experience

• AWS Cloud technologies for scalable, cloud-native solutions
• Version Control with GIT for collaborative development
• Database Technologies: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic, Redis
• Event Streaming: Kafka for real-time data processing
• Orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes for container management