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.
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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
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