Senior Software Engineer (Frontend JavaScript, Customer-Facing) at takealot.com

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
• Implement front-end JavaScript coding at an advanced level with a focus on performance, maintainability and testable code.
• Create modules and components to incorporate them together into a functional site.
• Work closely with the designers and back-end developers, and communicate primarily with the API using standard methods

Qualifications & Experience:

• 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 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 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 is preferred, but AngularJS, Vue, etc. are a good start)
• 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

The skills we need:

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

Additional Desirable Skills: 

• PHP experience is a bonus.
• Docker experience
• Kubernetes experience
• React 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 developing eCommerce sites for retail
• Experience working with software development tools including Git, Jira and Confluence/Notion.