Software Engineer (Python)
- South Africa
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Scale: Over 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
- Learn: We work with the best of the best. Code alongside industry leaders and up-skill 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.
- 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
- Design solutions for complex problems with difficult decision trade-offs, typically system or domain-wide
- Participate in and collaborate on architecture proposals across engineering
- Support alignment of architecture across the organisation
- 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 the resolution of issues that impact multiple teams
- Support, challenge existing, and define new engineering processes and directives
- Review and contribute fixes and content to internal documentation
- React to technology trends, identifying risks and opportunities for your division's technologies, systems, and domains
- 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
- REST and RPC API implementation and maintenance (using Python)
- Develop and maintain automation tests
- Liaise with various internal stakeholders to discuss project requirements, progress, etc.
- 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
- Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
- Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing
- Bachelor's degree or an Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- 5 to 10 years in a software development role
- A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
- Experience in writing robust, efficient production code
- Proficient in a strongly typed open source language such as Python, Java, Golang, etc
- Exposure to RESTful APIs and web services.
- Experience with SQL database systems
- Experience with development in a Linux environment
- Familiarity with microservices architecture
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- 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
- JavaScript, React, jQuery
- The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related Total Remuneration Package that 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: Enjoy the flexibility of working from home while having the option for in-office interactions. Takealot.com provides a fully remote setup with the choice to visit the office to relish in those water cooler moments when desired.
- 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: Takealotmore subscriptions and 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 Linux, 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, 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).