Takealot Career – Front End Software Engineer

Job Description:

Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Senior Software Engineer (Frontend JavaScript, Customer-Facing) to join our team in Cape Town.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the designers and back-end developers, and communicate primarily with the API using standard methods, as well as be expected to make modifications to the existing PHP code.
• Brainstorm new ideas and concepts
• To assist design, develop and refine new features
• Implement front-end JavaScript coding at a senior level with a focus on performance, maintainability and testable code.
• Work with teammates on design, code reviews, and estimation
• Create modules and components to incorporate them together into a functional site.
• Locate and resolve bugs and crashes

Job Requirements:

• Creative
• Take pride in your work
• Be accountable
• Solutions oriented
• Flexible

Qualification & Experience:

• Experience writing front-end unit tests
• Experience producing responsive html designs
• Back-bone JS experience
• Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering
• Linux experience
• PHP experience very desirable
• A minimum of 3 years experience as a Front-End Developer writing code is required.
• Experience using a source control solution such as Git
• React JS experience

Job Details:

Company: Takealot

Vacancy Type: Full Time

Job Functions: Retail

Job Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Application Deadline: N/A

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