Job Opportunities at Takealot.com

Your responsibilities will include:

• Work with a firehose of customer data.
• Analyze, build, evaluate and productionise machine learning models.
• Touch all aspects of the business in your domain.
• Brainstorm new ideas and concepts to solve specific use cases.
• Work with teammates on design and code reviews.
• Keep abreast of developments in the machine learning domain.

The skills and attributes we need:

• Be creative
• Be flexible
• Be a team player
• Be data oriented
• Take pride in your work
• Be a good communicator

Qualifications & Preferred Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering (alternatively a degree in a related field with work experience as a software engineer).
• Three (3) years’ experience applying machine learning to real-world problems.
• Three (3) years’ commercial software development experience.
• Strong understanding of statistical analysis, modeling and machine learning techniques.
• Strong knowledge of different types of recommendation systems.
• Experience building backend systemcs at sale with a strong focus on data processing and machine learning.
• Experience working within an agile team that is operationally hands-on and an advocate of that culture.
• Experience with Python
• Experience with Linux
• Experience with BigQuery.
• Experience with TensorFlow, Scikit-learn, PyTorch and Pandas.
• Experience with deploying machine learning to production environments.
• Data Mining and Big Data experience.

Bonus Skills and Experience:

• MSc (master of science) or PhD (doctorate).
• Experience with cloud-based platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Experience with Elasticsearch.
• Experience with end-to-end machine learning frameworks such as Kubeflow, TensorFlow Extended or MLflow.
• Experience with serving machine learning models, such as TensorFlow Serving or KServe.

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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
• Keep up to date with technology trends
• Apply creative thought processes to solve complex challenges at scale
• Strong focus on making takealot.com the best place to shop at, a happy customer is a repeat customer
• Drive for excellence, to help foster a world-class engineering team

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

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering or equivalent experience in software development.
• 3 to 5 years experience in a software development role for an intermediate-level position
• 5+ years experience in a software development role for a senior-level position
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
• Experience in the following will be advantageous:
• Python, JavaScript, React, jQuery, C#
• 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