Senior Software Engineer (Fulfilment Frontend) at takealot.com

Who We're Looking For:

• Innovative, ambitious individuals ready to shape the future of e-commerce logistics. At TFS, "Uniquely You" meets "Powerfully Us", where your individuality strengthens our collective mission.

Why Join TFS:

• Purpose-driven impact: Transform lives through logistics innovation
• Advanced technology: Work with cutting-edge systems in a fast-paced environment
• Career growth: Thrive in an agile space that champions continuous improvement
• Inclusive culture: Your unique perspective drives extraordinary results
• A culture that celebrates individual uniqueness while championing the strength of togetherness. 
• Be part of creating sustainable, scalable solutions that make a difference across South Africa's e-commerce landscape.

 At TFS, your growth is our growth. You'll be joining a team powered by Takealot Group's core values. 

This position reports to the Software Engineering Manager (Fulfilment Web).

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 designers, QA Analysts, and back-end developers, and integrate with the APIs 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 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

 The skills we need:

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

Preferred technical experience: 

• PHP experience is a bonus.
• Docker experience
• Kubernetes experience
• React JS or Angular 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.

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which 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, off the latest tech.
• 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. If you build it, they will come.
• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).