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  • Posted: Oct 2, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Takealot.com is the leading ecommerce retailer in South Africa and one of the largest, most innovative ecommerce retailers on the African continent. Our mission is to be the most customer-centric online shopping destination in Africa, built around the simple concept that the customer comes first. All of our focus is dedicated to improving the customer ...
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    Software Engineer (Frontend JavaScript, Customer-Facing)

    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
    • 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 

    Advanced Experience with CSS pre-compilers such as Less, Sass & SCSS

    • Experience producing responsive HTML designs
    • Good understanding of asynchronous request handling.
    • Knowledge and experience in cross-browser and cross-device compatible solutions including mobile
    • 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

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    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to takealot.com on job-boards.greenhouse.io to apply

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