Software Engineer (Frontend JavaScript, Customer-Facing)

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: Over 2.5 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them 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

The position reports to the Shopfront Engineering Team Lead.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• To assist 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 a senior 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 the designers and back-end developers, and communicate primarily with the API using standard methods, as well as be expected to make modifications to the existing PHP code.

The skills we need:

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

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and a minimum of 5 years experience as a Front-End Developer writing code is required.
• In the event that 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 10 years of experience as a Front-End Developer writing 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 code based on MVC JavaScript Frameworks (React is preferred, but AngularJS, Meteor, Backbone, etc. are a good start)
• Experience in XHTML, Html5, CSS and taking high definition designs/PSD's and producing fast efficient HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
• Knowledge and experience cross browser and cross device compatible solutions including for mobile
• Experience with CSS pre-compilers such as Less or Sass
• 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, concepts to validate whether they might be of value to our team
• Experience using a source control solution such as Git
• PHP experience very desirable
• Linux experience
• React JS experience
• Back-bone JS experience
• Experience writing front-end unit tests
• Full stack experience of any sort is advantageous
• Has worked within an agile development team using scrum/kanban
• Experience producing responsive html designs

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). 

Like what you see? 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!