Mr D Food - Senior Software Engineer (Python)

Mr D Food, a division of takealot.com, is looking for highly talented Senior Software Engineer (Python) to join our team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! 

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: Show the millions of Mr D Food customers what you can do 
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time. 
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D Food. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. 

Who’s who in the tech space

This position reports to an Engineering Team Lead 

As a Software Development Engineer you will help to architect, implement, support and maintain scalable services in a heterogeneous environment. You will be able to influence both business and architectural decisions, while working on end-to-end technology solutions.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Build systems to scale with our growth of business, leveraging new technologies and AWS Cloud services.
• Work closely with developers, professional services team and product managers to design the software solutions with a focus on reliability, performance and usability.
• Develop, enhance and maintain backend systems in a heterogeneous environment of different languages and technologies, with an emphasis on Python.
• Apply and foster best software development life cycle practices bringing speed and quality to your team.

The skills we need:

• Thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, OO concepts, data structures and algorithms.
• Passion for learning new skills and appreciation to invent and simplify.
• Experience with REST, Python, Java and Linux.
• Experience in developing backend systems in a Micro Service architecture.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience using GIT version control
• Experience with NoSQL, Dynamo, Elastic Search, Relational DBs

Qualifications & Experience: 

• Information Technology/Computer Science Degree AND a Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience 

Let’s talk about life @ Mr D Food

• 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? We offer 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 in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
• 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): Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IOT 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).