Senior Software Engineer (Full Stack) at takealot.com

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Design and build solutions to assist our business users, and improve customer experience
• Architect and design solutions with fellow team members
• Researching how solutions are being implemented locally and internationally
• Applying creative problem solving to develop solutions
• Adopt automated and manual test strategies to ensure product quality
• Learn and grow from working with great colleagues and taking on challenges
• Help our team grow from your expertise, experience, and perspectives
• Making takealot.com the best place to shop Making takealot.com the best place to work

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
• 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
• Understanding of microservice architectures
• Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform services and infrastructure
• Understanding of data security principles
• Great organizational and time management skills

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience 
• 5 to 10 years of relevant work experience for a senior role 
• 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience for an intermediate role 
• Solid Python, Kubernetes and ReactJS experience
• Solid web and frontend development experience including knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript and related libraries (React, Angular, Backbone)
• RESTful, MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQL experience in a high-load environment
• A thorough understanding of software engineering practices and best practices, including Agile software development, source code control systems and the use of software IDEs, and development and testing tools
• An understanding of software deployment tools, deployment processes and best practices
• Experience with building Restful API web services
• Experience with CI/CD and software version control systems