Vacancies Available at takealot.com

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• As a Software Engineer, you will be someone whose expertise directly translates into developing robust software in the e-commerce domain. You will have the opportunity to implement best practices to improve existing software and participate in the development of new features.
• While we don't promote after-hours work as part of the regular workday, we run a 24/7 business with the need to keep systems up and running.
• Software Engineers are expected to provide after-hours support on a rotational basis to resolve critical system issues if needed.
• Design and build solutions to assist our business users and improve customer experience
• Architect and design solutions with your team
• Develop code, making major improvements to non-functional areas
• Develop high-quality production code for work of high complexity and scale
• Utilize and improve functional and non-functional testing practices
• Champion, challenge, and iterate on best practices within engineering
• Design solutions for complex problems with difficult decision trade-offs, typically system or domain-wide
• Participate in and collaborate on architecture proposals across engineering
• Support alignment of architecture across the organisation
• Respond to and resolve bugs in production for systems in your division
• Respond to alerts and support incident response within your division
• Investigate and drive the resolution of issues that impact multiple teams
• Support, challenge existing, and define new engineering processes and directives
• Review and contribute fixes and content to internal documentation
• React to technology trends, identifying risks and opportunities for your division's technologies, systems, and domains
• Share knowledge through blog posts, tech talks, and workshops across engineering
• Contribute to discussions and decisions in the division
• Challenge others to always produce work of the highest quality
• REST and RPC API implementation and maintenance (using Python)
• Develop and maintain automation tests
• Liaise with various internal stakeholders to discuss project requirements, progress, etc.

The skills we need:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude, and high energy
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
• Ability to dis-aggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problems
• Solid quantitative skills
• Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
• Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or an Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 5 to 10 years in a software development role
• A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
• Experience in writing robust, efficient production code
• Proficient in a strongly typed open source language such as Python, Java, Golang, etc
• Exposure to RESTful APIs and web services.
• Experience with SQL database systems
• Experience with development in a Linux environment

Experience in the following will be advantageous:

• Familiarity with microservices architecture 
• Experience working in an Agile environment 
• MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL
• Memcached, Redis
• Message Brokers, Queues, and PubSub systems (e.g., Kafka and RabbitMQ)
• Containerisation (e.g., Docker)
• Orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes)
• GitHub, Travis CI, Jenkins
• AWS, GCP, Azure
• JavaScript, React, jQuery

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Build and retain a high-caliber engineering team
• Build relationships through regular one-on-one conversations
• Remove roadblocks and interruptions to help the team perform
• Be involved with architectural and strategic planning with peers and senior developers
• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements, and manage expectations
• Support and develop the careers of members of the team
• Support and give direction to innovation in the team
• Present practical input for strategic technology decisions
• Stay up to date with industry trends, and standards
• Lead the Agile processes within the team
• Manage the roadmap for the team, playing a key role in prioritization
• Successfully see new projects to completion and launch new products while maintaining the existing code base.
• Facilitate discussions in the team and ensure a good design methodology is used on projects.
• Resolve conflict in the team when necessary
• Promote the achievements of the team
• Track and ensure team productivity is healthy using a metrics-based approach
• Track and ensure operational excellence in the team using a metrics-based approach
• Interview candidates for technical and organizational fit
• Drive innovation, vision, and strategy

The skills we need:

• A solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high-energy
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
• Solid quantitative skills
• Ability to interview and interact professionally with internal and external people
• Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
• Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or any related area of study. In the event that you do not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma, equivalent experience in the related area is sufficient. 
• Demonstrable experience leading and managing a team of engineers on complex software projects.
• Experience developing software in an agile, quality-focussed environment.
• Experience with a broad range of related disciplines such as Development, Cloud Infrastructure, Site Reliability, Provisioning, Configuration Management, and Managed Systems.
• Good SQL experience in a high-load environment.
• Significant technical experience and a proven track record of architectural ownership and understanding.
• Experience with Open Source Operating Systems and technologies.
• Experience with Web Architectures (e.g. SOA, REST).
• Excellent understanding of theoretical Software Engineering fundamentals, including but not limited to distributed systems, highly scalable systems, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, and programming paradigms is advantageous.
• Experience with e-commerce-based applications is advantageous.
• Experience working with GCP/AWS and/or other cloud platforms.

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Your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

• Providing high quality analysis to the Supply Chain Development team working across all Supply Chain projects
• Enhancement of existing volume and capacity forecast models
• On-going alignment with Retail department on stock cover and related issues
• Providing inputs for the further development of Supply Chain network model and strategy
• Bridging gap between problems cases and data, from multiple data inputs and systems
• Identify areas of the business where data and metrics are needed to better understand and improve result

 Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree required in Statistics & Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Data Science or similar 
• Minimum of 3 years within a Data Analytics role preferably in Supply Chain within the retail/ecommerce industry or similar 
• Minimum of 3 years experience using statistical methods (regression, forecasting and modeling) in Python and R.
• Minimum 2 years experience using data visualization tools such as PowerBI, Qlik, Tableau and Looker
• Minimum 3 years SQL scripting experience

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Your responsibilities will include:

• Negotiate promotional offers with our sellers
• Drive customer awareness of seller listings through promotional & deals levers
• Build the deals/promotional pipeline in correct product mix (assortment and depth)
• Inventory availability management for promotional/deals lines
• Maintain and grow relationships with existing marketplace sellers
• Continuously assess industry and market trends locally and internationally
• Contribute to improvement and optimization of promotional & deals processes
• Plan and execute joint marketing activities with sellers
• Work closely with the Divisions and Marketplace team to ensure strategic alignment
• Work closely with Customer Service to resolve related queries

Qualification & Experience:

• Tertiary qualification requires Competence in Excel in terms of data analysis
• 5 years of related industry experience in Buying, Business Development or Sales
• Proven track record of negotiations and sourcing
• Existing industry networks advantageous

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Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborate with the Product team to develop, coordinate and implement relevant Conceptualising, implementing and management of ongoing promotional marketing campaigns to drive adoption and retention for TakealotMORE. 
• Own, update and maintain the promotional calendar for TakealotMORE.
• Initiatives, including how they tie into Takealot and MrD plans.
• You will need to develop an in-depth knowledge of each consumer target market group to craft meaningful promotional strategies.
• Work closely with the merchandising team and partner brands to improve customer conversion within TakealotMORE customer journeys and ensure objectives are met, projects and campaigns are actioned
• Campaigns and promos that are aligned with the overall promo calendar and relevant business objectives.
• Drive new feature launches and create sustainable educational content on product features and differentiators.
• Briefing and operational management and coordinating of the various campaigns.
• Sourcing partnership opportunities with big brands in the market and engaging in ongoing strategies to unlock the potential of those partnerships.
• Engagement with the brand team on through the line Takealot and MrD campaigns.
• Engagement with the social media team on monthly content planning and preparation, as well as paid influencer partnerships
• Liaise with partner marketing teams for joint campaigns.
• Work with internal specialist teams on creating and implementing performance media and CRM strategies to grow TakealotMORE.
• Work with MrD marketing representatives to cross-sell and access new shoppers from their customer bases.
• Monthly, Weekly, and daily reporting of campaign and promo performance.

Qualification & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, or Communications.
• A minimum of 5 years retail and marketing experience
• Experience working across marketing channels - Digital, ATL, Partnerships - with demonstrable results.
• The candidate will have had regular interaction at the executive level.
• An understanding of Loyalty Programmes or Subscriptions advantageous.
• Proven track record of delivering projects.

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Your responsibilities will include:

• Work with a firehose of customer data.
• Analyze, build, evaluate, and productionise machine learning models.
• Touch all aspects of the business in your domain.
• Brainstorm new ideas and concepts to solve specific use cases.
• Work with teammates on design and code reviews.
• Keep abreast of developments in the machine learning domain.

Qualifications & Preferred Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (alternatively, a degree in a related field with work experience as a software engineer).
• Three (3) years’ experience applying machine learning to real-world problems.
• Three (3) years’ commercial software development experience.
• Strong understanding of statistical analysis, modeling, and machine learning techniques.
• Strong knowledge of different types of recommendation systems.
• Experience building backend systems at scale with a strong focus on data processing and machine learning.
• Experience working within an agile team that is operationally hands-on and an advocate of that culture.
• Experience with Python
• Experience with Linux
• Experience with BigQuery.
• Experience with TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, PyTorch, and Pandas.
• Experience with deploying machine learning to production environments.
• Data Mining and Big Data experience.

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Lead BI analytical projects as part of the implementation of new BI software tools and systems (Google Big Query, Looker).
• Work on highly complex, cross-functional, and enterprise BI solutions.
• Evaluate internal and external stakeholder needs in order to provide appropriate solutions.
• Participate in the planning process, technical design, development and testing of BI solutions.
• Provide input to the development of information quality metrics.
• Review data pipelines and test plans to ensure that business results are tested and correct.
• Research, identify, analyse, and provide input to new tools, frameworks, techniques, patterns, or processes that will have a positive impact on the BI architecture.
• Research and develop best practices for reports and dashboards deployments.
• Provide guidance, training, and problem-solving assistance to other team members.
• Provide subject matter expertise for key BI core functions.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Management, and a minimum of 5 years of Business Analysis or related technical experience is required.
• In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Management), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Business Analysis or related technical experience.
• Minimum 3 years experience using BI reporting tools (e.g. Looker, Tableau, Microsoft BI, etc.)
• Minimum 3 years SQL experience
• Minimum 3 years Data Warehousing experience
• High proficiency in working with large data sets and business models
• Knowledge of one or more business functional areas
• Google Cloud Platform and/or Google Big Query experience would advantageous
• Python Experience would be advantageous
• Current or previous subscriptions / recurring payment experience would be highly beneficial
• E-commerce experience would be advantageous