Takealot IT / Telecom Jobs in South Africa
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Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer (Frontend Fulfilment) to join our team.
We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
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- Scale: 4 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 and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.
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The position reports to the Engineering Director
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.
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- 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
- Experience writing front-end unit tests
- Worked within an agile development team
- Experience producing responsive HTML designs
The skills we need:
- Be accountable
- Creative
- Solutions oriented
- Flexible
- Take pride in your work
Additional Desirable Skills:
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- PHP experience is a bonus.
- Docker experience
- Kubernetes experience
- React JS or Angular experience highly desirable
- Full stack experience of any sort is advantageous
- Experience working with unit test frameworks
- Experience with writing UI Automation scripts using Robot Framework.
- Experience developing eCommerce sites for retail
- Experience working with software development tools including Git, Jira and Confluence/Notion.
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