Software Engineer (Frontend JavaScript, Customer-Facing)
Takealot
- South Africa
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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, Superbalist.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here's your chance.
- 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
- 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 is preferred, but AngularJS, Vue, etc. are a good start)
- 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
- Be accountable
- Creative
- Solutions oriented
- Flexible
- Take pride in your work
- PHP experience is a bonus.
- Docker experience
- Kubernetes experience
- React JS 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.
- 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).
- Required