Software Engineer (Python) at takealot.com

• As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be someone whose expertise directly translates into the development of robust software in the e-commerce domain. You will have the opportunity to implement best practices to improve existing software and participate in the development of new features. While we don't promote after-hours work as part of the regular workday, we run a 24/7 business with the need to keep systems up and running. Software Engineers are expected to provide after-hours support on a rotational basis to resolve critical system issues.

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 your team
• Develop code, making major improvements to non-functional areas
• Develop high quality production code for work of high complexity and scale
• Utilize and improve functional and non-functional testing practices
• Champion, challenge, and iterate on best practices within engineering
• Manage change in technologies in the division with due diligence
• Design solutions for complex problems with difficult decision trade-offs, typically system- or domain-wide
• Lead architecture proposals for your division's domain
• Participate in and collaborate on architecture proposals across engineering
• Own the maintenance of architecture documentation in the team
• Support alignment of architecture across the organisation
• Be on-call for systems owned by your team
• Respond to and resolve bugs in production for systems in your division
• Respond to alerts and support incident response within your division
• Investigate and drive resolution of issues which impact multiple teams
• Triage and respond to hot-desk support tickets
• Assume technical lead on major incidents impacting the division
• Lead technical analysis, and design specification documentation
• Assist with sprint planning, work estimation, and project prioritisation
• Assist the product teams in helping to determine priorities for technical projects
• Support, challenge existing, and define new engineering processes and directives
• Lead interviews and assess potential engineering candidates for skills and fit
• Review, and contribute fixes and content to internal documentation
• React to technology trends, identifying risks and opportunities for your divisions technologies, systems, and domains
• Mentor, coach, and share knowledge with your peers in your division
• Share knowledge through blog posts, tech talks, and workshops across engineering
• Contribute to discussions and decisions in the division
• Challenge others to always produce work of the highest quality
• Take on technical project leadership roles for projects across the division
• REST and RPC API implementation and maintenance (using Python)
• Develop and maintain automation tests
• Peer review of team code
• Liaise with various internal stakeholders to discuss project requirements, progress etc.
• Analyze and understand business requirements and OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and produce technical specifications that meet these requirements

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering or equivalent experience in software development.
• In the event that you do not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma (Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years’ of Software Development experience
• A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
• 5 to 10 years in a software development role
• Experience in writing robust, efficient production code
• Experience with SQL database systems
• Experience with development in a Linux environment
• Proficient in a strongly typed opensource language such as Python, Java, Golang, etc
• Open to diversifying language skill set

Experience in the following will be advantageous:

• JavaScript, React, jQuery
• MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL
• Memcached, Redis
• Message Brokers, Queues and PubSub systems (e.g. Kafka and RabbitMQ)
• Containerisation (e.g. Docker)
• Orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes)
• GitHub, Travis CI, Jenkins
• AWS, GCP, Azure