Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer (Python) to join our team. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us!

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• 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.

Who’s who in the tech space

This position reports to the respective team's manager.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

As a Software Engineer, you will be someone whose expertise directly translates into developing 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 if needed.

• 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.

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
• Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
• Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing

Qualifications & Experience:

• 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

Experience in the following will be advantageous:

• 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

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• 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).

Like what you see?

If you meet the above, you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.

Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer (Python) to join our team. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us!

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• 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.

Who’s who in the tech space

This position reports to the respective team's manager.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

As a Software Engineer, you will be someone whose expertise directly translates into developing 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 if needed.

• 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.

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
• Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
• Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing

Qualifications & Experience:

• 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

Experience in the following will be advantageous:

• 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

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• 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).

Like what you see?

If you meet the above, you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.

The Ideal Candidate

You’re a senior engineer or architect with deep experience with architectural patterns and solution designs, preferably in cloud-native SaaS, regulated financial services or information security sectors. You can work independently to understand a new industry and its associated standards, products and technologies, and then capture and share the distilled knowledge. You can define standards and principles for how Entersekt should design its products to achieve our future vision. You communicate clearly, and you naturally collaborate to find the right solution. You enjoy learning about new technologies and architectures, solving real business problems and building prototypes and POCs. You can hold your own with senior software engineers and take their input, while also helping them build and design in a more re-usable way. Your work should be clear and understandable to business stakeholders, technical stakeholders, and external customers/partners.

The Role

This position will form part of the Entersekt Architecture function, which reports to the CTO. Your role will be to help identify areas where Entersekt can innovate to win and eliminate areas where we cannot establish a competitive edge. This will involve understanding the financial services industry, the current solutions in the market, and emerging trends. You will explore new technologies and associated architectures and understand how different industry solutions work. You’ll recommend architectural and design approaches to how Entersekt should integrate with these products and industries and identify areas where we can add value or compete. You will also support and enable our engineering teams to get value from our existing product architecture and adjust it where it’s not optimal. In this role you’ll collaborate with other internal and external stakeholders such as business development, product, engineering and solutions teams, our customers, current and potential partners and other industry stakeholders. 

Responsibilities

Technical Architecture 

• Integrate knowledge of the overarching business strategy when exploring programs and projects within the CTO division. 
• Advise on the technical direction and help drive initiatives within the CTO function that could stretch across multiple divisions.  
• Where required, explore new concepts and techniques and execute on the research and development of initiatives within the CTO function. 
• Design and define principles for our Product Architecture. 
• Define technical specifications and algorithms where needed. 
• Analyse industry trends and produce reports and recommendations. 
• Monitor and assess current architectural adoption across the business and help define strategies to synthesize and integrate them. 
• Provide technical leadership, make recommendations and collaborate with Product Development to ensure the technical architecture direction is well understood and can be executed on.

Innovation 

• Identify innovation opportunities by detecting inefficiencies or change drivers inside the financial services industry. 
• Design the high-level structure of new technology solutions. This also includes identifying potential roadblocks. 
• Solve unique and ambiguous problems with broad impact; typically oversee standards, controls and operating methods that have a strategic impact on the business.  
• Provide and co-create innovation and exploration ideas; help manage and prioritize these; define approaches to validate/qualify these concepts. 
• Engage with new third-party providers and partners to understand their offering; define potential combined use cases or opportunities to explore together.

Industry & Partners 

• Anticipate emerging technology and architectural trends and regulatory/risk issues as a basis for recommending large-scale product, technical, functional or operational improvements. 
• Keep up to date with industry standards, trends and analyst positioning. 
• Participate in relevant industry forums and help move Entersekt’s position forward. 
• Provide industry updates and interpretations to the rest of the organisation. 
• Review industry material, distill key areas of exploration and craft a plan of action. 

Skills and Experience

Successful candidates for this role will generally possess the following qualifications and skills:

• 10+ years’ experience in a technology/software environment. 
• Engineering, Computer Science, or relevant degree or equivalent practical experience. 
• Experience in defining, documenting and communicating architectural designs and principles for software products and solution proposals. 
• Ability to build a ‘story’ to explain concepts and positions to various types of stakeholders including commercial, business and technical stakeholders. 
• Experience with one or more of the following is preferred: financial services, mobile platforms, consumer-facing solutions and/or payment/EFT systems. 
• Experience with cloud-native SaaS architectures, design, delivery, and operations (e.g. microservices, containers/Kubernetes, CI/CD, multi-tenant considerations), is preferred. 
• Preferably a good working understanding of and practical experience with Amazon Web Services.  
• Preferably experience in building scalable and data rich services on microservice architecture. 
• Systems engineering and/or requirements elicitation exposure will be an advantage.

Personality Attributes

• Dedicated and self-motivated. 
• Creative problem-solver. 
• Energised by change and new possibilities. 
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills; ability to host workshops and design sessions. 
• Effective communication skills (verbal and written): the ability to articulate the key differentiators of a solution and engage in technical discussions with customers and partners. 
• Sound judgement: knowing what will work. 
• Balances deep technical engagement with a clear view of business outcomes and constraints.

Bash is TFG's e-commerce and omnichannel platform, powering multi-brand storefronts across one of South Africa's largest retail groups. We handle high-traffic, high-stakes transactional workloads where performance directly impacts conversion and revenue. Our stack is built on Next.js, React, and Node.js (Client APIs), with frontend workloads deployed at the edge via Cloudflare

We're hiring a Senior Web Engineer to own the technical direction of our web platform. This isn't a "write features and ship tickets" role. You'll shape how we build, set the standards others follow, and make architectural decisions that compound across multiple storefronts and brands.

What you'll own

• Frontend platform strategy: rendering architecture (SSR/SSG/ISR trade-offs), build pipeline performance, framework upgrades, and the technical roadmap for our web surfaces.
• Architectural standards: patterns for our Client API layer, data fetching strategies, state management, and how we structure code across a multi-brand, multi-storefront environment.
• Observability: you believe production is a feature environment. You'll own how we instrument, monitor, and debug our frontend systems (OpenTelemetry, structured logging, real-user monitoring, feature-flagging).
• Technical leadership: mentoring web engineers across the department, representing frontend in cross-functional architecture decisions, and writing the docs and RFCs that change how the team thinks.

You've done this before

• Owned a frontend platform, design system, or significant shared infrastructure at scale, not just contributed to one.
• Made architectural decisions in a high-traffic e-commerce or transactional environment where latency and uptime have direct commercial impact.
• Debugged gnarly production performance issues under pressure — you know your way around flame charts, network waterfalls, and memory profiles.
• Influenced technical direction beyond your immediate team. You've written proposals that changed how engineering orgs operate.
• Shipped code that other engineers build on top of. You think about developer experience as a product.
• Said no to things and been right about it.

What you bring

• Deep Next.js and React expertise: not just usage, but opinions. You understand the rendering model, the trade-offs of different data-fetching patterns, and when the framework is fighting you.
• Performance engineering instinct: you've optimised Critical Rendering Path, reduced bundle sizes, improved INP/LCP/CLS on real production traffic. You measure before you optimise.
• Distributed systems awareness: you understand caching layers, CDN and Cache header behaviour, BFF patterns, and how a frontend request becomes ten backend calls.
• Strong communication: you write clearly, review code thoughtfully, and can explain complex trade-offs to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
• 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful time spent on frontend-heavy, production-grade systems.

The environment

• Stack: Next.js, React, TypeScript, Node.js (BFF/Client APIs), Cloudflare (edge workers, DNS, WAF), OpenTelemetry.
• Scale: Multi-brand storefronts across TFG's portfolio. Decisions you make here ripple across brands.
• Location: Cape Town or Johannesburg preferred. We operate as a distributed team within SA.

This probably isn't for you if

• You're looking for a role where the tech choices are already made and you just execute.
• You prefer to work in isolation rather than lifting the engineers around you.
• You think "senior" means years of experience rather than scope of impact.

We ask a few optional demographic questions to monitor fairness in hiring and comply with South Africa’s Employment Equity requirements. Your responses are confidential - stored separately from your application and never shown to hiring panels. We review the data only in aggregate to strengthen our sourcing so pipelines are diverse and all candidates receive equitable support. You can skip any question.

S-RM is recruiting a Senior DevOps Engineer to play a key role in the development and maintenance of products for our Corporate Intelligence team. 

WHO ARE WE 

S-RM is a global intelligence and cyber security consultancy. Since 2005, we’ve helped companies, governments and private individuals solve some of their most complex challenges. 

We’ve been able to do this because of our outstanding people. We’re committed to developing bright, curious, enthusiastic people who want to think critically, solve complex problems, and achieve success. 

But we also know that work isn’t everything. It’s about the lives and careers it helps us build. We’re immensely proud of this culture and we invest in our people’s wellbeing, learning, and ideas every day.  

We’re excited you’re thinking about joining us. 

THE ROLE 

This role will be working as part of a larger software team supporting our Corporate Intelligence team in the development of complex intelligence software products.  

We expect that the following will be component of the key responsibilities for this position: 

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available cloud infrastructure on AWS, supporting multiple product teams with differing needs. 

• Own infrastructure as code using Terraform, ensuring environments are reproducible, version‑controlled, and well‑documented. 

• Architect, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to support build, test, and deployment workflows. 

• Collaborate closely with development teams to improve deployment reliability, speed, and automation. 

• Own observability and monitoring practices, ensuring meaningful metrics, dashboards, logs, and alerts are in place. 

• Embed security best practices into infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and runtime environments. 

• Keep up to date with DevOps, cloud, and AWS best practices, tooling, and emerging technologies. 

• Take ownership of complex problems end‑to‑end, from design through to production support. 

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR 

We think candidates with the following skills and experience are likely to succeed as a Senior DevOps Engineer at S-RM.   

That said, if you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box—we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others. 

We’re looking for someone that is able to adapt to change and work comfortably in a fast-paced environment, this person will have some or all of these skills:  

• Degree level education in a computer science, maths or related numerate subject, OR equivalent practical experience. 

• Proven experience as a Senior DevOps Engineer or similar role, supporting multiple product or engineering teams. 

• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS (e.g. EC2, ECS/EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC, S3, OpenSearch, CloudWatch) in production environments. 

• Extensive experience using Terraform to manage infrastructure as code, including module design and environment separation. 

• Solid experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. 

• Strong observability and monitoring experience, including metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards. 

• Good understanding of Linux/Unix systems, networking fundamentals, and cloud security best practices. 

• Experience with containerisation and orchestration (e.g. Docker, ECS, Kubernetes). 

Any of the following personal skills would be very beneficial in this position: 

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a small, agile team. 

• Well‑organised with strong attention to detail, particularly in automation and infrastructure changes. 

• Delivery‑focused, balancing speed with reliability and long‑term maintainability. 

• A proven ability to work from idea to a working feature. 

• Able to evaluate new technologies pragmatically rather than adopting trends for their own sake. 

• Strong communication skills, with ability to communicate with business stakeholders to understand the problems and contribute to technical discussions. 

The successful candidate must have permission to work in South Africa by the start of their employment. 

BENEFITS 

We offer thoughtful, balanced rewards and support to help our people do their best work and live their lives outside it, this includes but is not exhaustive of: 

• 23 days holiday per year in addition to bank holidays (+1 day for every day of service up to a maximum of 28 days); 

• Matching pension contribution up to 7% (up to a maximum of 14% combined), and financial education; 

• Hybrid working and flexible working hours 

Parental Support: 

• Fertility treatment leave – 5 days of leave per cycle of treatment per year; 

• Maternity leave – 26 weeks of full pay followed by 13 weeks of half pay; 

• Paternity leave – 6 weeks of full pay. 

Various Health and Medical Benefits including:  

• Medical Aid and Gap Cover Policy (taxable benefit) for you and your family; 
  
  
• Free access to the world-famous mindfulness app Headspace; 
  
  
• EAP programme for you and your immediate family. 

THE APPLICATION PROCESS 

To apply for this role, please send an up-to-date CV to Job Application for DevOps Engineer at S-RM

The application process will include: 

1. A preliminary call, which will be a chance for you to find out more about S-RM and the role. 

1. First Interview - this will be run remotely and will likely be more technical in focus 

1. Second interview - this will be run remotely and will likely be more focussed on the role in more detail and your ability to collaborate with our varied team 

We nurture a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion and we are dedicated to developing a workforce that displays a variety of talents, experiences and perspectives. 

S-RM is recruiting a Golang Developer to play a key role in the development and maintenance of products for our Corporate Intelligence team. 

WHO ARE WE 

S-RM is a global intelligence and cyber security consultancy. Since 2005, we’ve helped companies, governments and private individuals solve some of their most complex challenges. 

We’ve been able to do this because of our outstanding people. We’re committed to developing bright, curious, enthusiastic people who want to think critically, solve complex problems, and achieve success. 

But we also know that work isn’t everything. It’s about the lives and careers it helps us build. We’re immensely proud of this culture and we invest in our people’s wellbeing, learning, and ideas every day.  

We’re excited you’re thinking about joining us. 

THE ROLE 

This role will be working as part of a larger software team supporting our Corporate Intelligence team in the development of complex intelligence software products.  

We expect that the following will be component of the key responsibilities for this position: 

• Design, build, and maintain backend services in Golang and front‑end features using React. 

• Build and evolve APIs to integrate multiple external data providers. 

• Use OpenSearch for searching, indexing, and analytics use cases. 

• Deploy and operate services on AWS, following best practices. 

• Work with large datasets, focusing on performance, reliability, and scalability. 

• Collaborate closely with the Product Manager to break down requirements and deliver incremental value. 

• Work alongside the DevOps team on deployment, observability and automations. 

• Take ownership of features from design through to production and ongoing improvement. 

• Ensure high code quality through unit tests, integration tests, and other testing strategies. 

• Contribute to technical discussions and help improve engineering standards across the team. 

The role will be based in our Cape Town office; however, we have flexible working arrangements available. 

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR 

We think candidates with the following skills and experience are likely to succeed as a Golang Engineer at S-RM.   

That said, if you don’t think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box—we’re looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas and have some interest and capabilities in others. 

We’re looking for someone that can adapt to change and work comfortably in a fast-paced environment, this person will have some or all these skills:  

• Degree level education in a computer science, maths or related numerate subject, OR equivalent practical experience. 

• Proven experience as a Software Engineer with Golang, practical experience in building front‑end applications with React. 

• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs. 

• Hands-on experience with AWS, e.g. ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, IAM, Open Search or similar. 

• Solid understanding of working with large data volumes. 

• Strong testing mindset, including unit tests, integration tests, awareness of other testing strategies (e.g. contract, end‑to‑end). 

• Experience in microservice architecture, experience in applying AI / ML techniques or working with AI‑driven systems, familiarity with data pipelines or analytics platforms. 

Any of the following personal skills would be very beneficial in this position: 

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently in a small, agile team. 

• Well,‑organised with strong attention to detail. 

• Delivery‑focused, balancing speed with reliability and long‑term maintainability. 

• A proven ability to work from idea to a working feature. 

• Able to evaluate new technologies pragmatically rather than adopting trends for their own sake. 

• Strong communication skills and ability to communicate with business stakeholders to understand the problems and contribute to technical discussions. 

The successful candidate must have permission to work in South Africa by the start of their employment. 

BENEFITS 

We offer thoughtful, balanced rewards and support to help our people do their best work and live their lives outside it, this includes but is not exhaustive of: 

• 23 days holiday per year in addition to bank holidays (+1 day for every day of service up to a maximum of 28 days); 

• Matching pension contribution up to 7% (up to a maximum of 14% combined), and financial education; 

• Hybrid working and flexible working hours 

Parental Support: 

• Fertility treatment leave – 5 days of leave per cycle of treatment per year; 

• Maternity leave – 26 weeks of full pay followed by 13 weeks of half pay; 

• Paternity leave – 6 weeks of full pay. 

Various Health and Medical Benefits including:  

• Medical Aid and Gap Cover Policy (taxable benefit) for you and your family; 

• Free access to the world-famous mindfulness app Headspace; 
• EAP programme for you and your immediate family. 

THE APPLICATION PROCESS 

To apply for this role, please send an up-to-date CV to Job Application for Golang Developer at S-RM

The application process will include: 

1. A preliminary call, which will be a chance for you to find out more about S-RM and the role. 

1. First Interview - this will be run remotely and will likely be more technical in focus 

1. Second interview - this will be run remotely and will likely be more focussed on the role in more detail and your ability to collaborate with our varied team 

We nurture a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion and we are dedicated to developing a workforce that displays a variety of talents, experiences and perspectives. 

takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Data Engineer with solid coding experience and knowledge of software engineering principles to join our team. 

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! 

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Mr D & TFS. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Who’s who in the tech space

This position reports to the Engineering Manager

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining data architectures.
• Preparing data for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive modeling
• Automating repetitive tasks and manual processes related to ingesting data into our lakehouse environment
• Optimizing data delivery for downstream applications
• Designing, developing, and testing large stream data pipelines to ingest, aggregate, clean, and distribute data models ready for analysis
• Ensuring the highest standard in data integrity
• Leveraging best practices in continuous integration and delivery
• Collaborating with other engineers, ML experts, analysts, and stakeholders to produce the most efficient and valuable solutions
• Contributing to our data democratization and literacy vision by making accessible and easy-to-use data products and tools
• Implementing features, technology, and processes that move us towards industry best practices, improving on scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security
• Operations and ownership of systems in production, responding to incidents

The skills we need:

• Works well with people and is passionate about helping people be their best
• Is a team player, an active listener, mentor, and able to communicate well
• Shows solid reasoning and decision making, with the ability to work under pressure
• Is passionate about technology, systems and data
• Is curious, always learning, and keeping up to date with the industry
• Has a deep understanding of data pipelining, streaming, and Big Data technologies, methods, patterns, and techniques.
• Has a solid grasp on data modeling, schema design, data warehouse, and data lake design and implementation
• Can troubleshoot complex database operations and performance issues
• Can automate tasks using shell scripting or writing small applications

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and a minimum of 4 years experience in a software/technology environment is required.
• In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 6 years experience in a software/technology environment.
• Solid coding experience (we use Java and Python) to integrate with APIs and webhooks. 
• Experience with open source relational database systems (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Significant technical experience and a proven track record of data modeling and schema design
• A thorough understanding of database and data warehousing principles (e.g. Data Mesh, OLAP, Data Marts, Star Schema, Snowflake, etc.)
• Familiar with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab and Github Actions, etc.
• Experience with Kafka, PubSub, or other event-based systems
• Experience with stream data pipeline frameworks or solutions such as Datastream, Apache Flink, Apache Beam, Storm, Databricks, etc.
• Experience with data warehousing, data lakes, lambda/kappa architectures 
• Experience working in cloud environments (GCP or any Google tooling is preferred) 
• Experience working with containerisation frameworks, tools and platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, etc.).
• Familiarity with Data Mesh architecture and methodologies
• Experience with managing and provisioning infrastructure using Terraform or similar tools. 

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
• Free subscription to takealotMORE
• 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: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• 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. 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 Windows, 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 counseling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, 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). 

Like what you see? 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.

takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Data Engineer with solid coding experience and knowledge of software engineering principles to join our team. 

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! 

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Mr D & TFS. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Who’s who in the tech space

This position reports to the Engineering Manager

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining data architectures.
• Preparing data for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive modeling
• Automating repetitive tasks and manual processes related to ingesting data into our lakehouse environment
• Optimizing data delivery for downstream applications
• Designing, developing, and testing large stream data pipelines to ingest, aggregate, clean, and distribute data models ready for analysis
• Ensuring the highest standard in data integrity
• Leveraging best practices in continuous integration and delivery
• Collaborating with other engineers, ML experts, analysts, and stakeholders to produce the most efficient and valuable solutions
• Contributing to our data democratization and literacy vision by making accessible and easy-to-use data products and tools
• Implementing features, technology, and processes that move us towards industry best practices, improving on scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security
• Operations and ownership of systems in production, responding to incidents

The skills we need:

• Works well with people and is passionate about helping people be their best
• Is a team player, an active listener, mentor, and able to communicate well
• Shows solid reasoning and decision making, with the ability to work under pressure
• Is passionate about technology, systems and data
• Is curious, always learning, and keeping up to date with the industry
• Has a deep understanding of data pipelining, streaming, and Big Data technologies, methods, patterns, and techniques.
• Has a solid grasp on data modeling, schema design, data warehouse, and data lake design and implementation
• Can troubleshoot complex database operations and performance issues
• Can automate tasks using shell scripting or writing small applications

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering and a minimum of 4 years experience in a software/technology environment is required.
• In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 6 years experience in a software/technology environment.
• Solid coding experience (we use Java and Python) to integrate with APIs and webhooks. 
• Experience with open source relational database systems (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Significant technical experience and a proven track record of data modeling and schema design
• A thorough understanding of database and data warehousing principles (e.g. Data Mesh, OLAP, Data Marts, Star Schema, Snowflake, etc.)
• Familiar with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab and Github Actions, etc.
• Experience with Kafka, PubSub, or other event-based systems
• Experience with stream data pipeline frameworks or solutions such as Datastream, Apache Flink, Apache Beam, Storm, Databricks, etc.
• Experience with data warehousing, data lakes, lambda/kappa architectures 
• Experience working in cloud environments (GCP or any Google tooling is preferred) 
• Experience working with containerisation frameworks, tools and platforms (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, GKE, etc.).
• Familiarity with Data Mesh architecture and methodologies
• Experience with managing and provisioning infrastructure using Terraform or similar tools. 

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
• Free subscription to takealotMORE
• 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: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• 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. 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 Windows, 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 counseling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, 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). 

Like what you see? 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.

About us:

We believe the next generation of financial services will be powered by stablecoins.

Founded in 2021, our mission at BVNK is to accelerate global money movement.

We’re building stablecoin-native infrastructure so businesses can move value instantly across borders and networks. With global licenses and T1 bank partnerships, we facilitate billions in transactions for enterprise clients like Worldpay, Deel, LianLian Global, and Rapyd.

Our technology is transforming how businesses operate globally by eliminating payment delays, reducing costs, and unlocking trapped capital. 

We’re a diverse team spread across EMEA, North America, and APAC, with a shared belief that stablecoins are the new infrastructure layer for financial services, and that BVNK is at the forefront of this shift.

In 2025, we secured strategic investment from Visa, following our $50 million Series B with Haun Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Scribble Ventures, DRW Venture Capital, Avenir, and Tiger Global. With the backing of these leading investors, we’re accelerating our growth – and we're looking for smart, ambitious people to help us build the future of financial services.

We're incredibly honored to have made Newsweek's list of The Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces three years running (most recently in 2025) and to have been recognised by LinkedIn as one of the Top 20 Startups in the UK in 2024

About this role in the team:

We are looking for a QA Engineer who views AI as their primary leverage. At BVNK, we aren't just looking for someone to maintain scripts; we want an engineer who views manual, repetitive testing as a problem to be solved with intelligent agents.

You will join a team of Quality Assurance experts responsible for the end-to-end integrity of our Fiat and Crypto products. Your mission is to evolve our testing from "automated" to "autonomous." You will build intelligent testing systems that predict failures, self-heal scripts, and utilize LLMs to bridge the gap between complex financial requirements and bulletproof code.

Key Areas of Responsibilities:

• AI-First Framework Evolution: Architect and maintain automation frameworks that prioritize AI-powered solutions for test generation, execution, and self-healing.
• Autonomous Quality Gates: Implement AI-driven gates in our CI/CD pipeline to predict regression risks before code is even merged.
• Synthetic Data Strategy: Leverage Generative AI to create complex, high-integrity test data sets for diverse global payment scenarios.
• Intelligent Observability: Use AI to analyze logs and system behavior, providing insights that traditional testing tools miss.
• Mentorship & AI Evangelism: Act as the subject matter expert on emerging AI tools (Claude Code, LangChain) to upskill the broader QA team.

What we need from you:

• AI-Native Mindset: You are an early adopter of LLMs and agentic workflows. You don't just use AI to write snippets; you use it to architect solutions.
• Technical Core: Expert-level proficiency in Python (our primary language) and the ability to navigate Java environments.
• Modern Tooling: Hands-on experience with PyTest, Playwright, and K6.
• Engineering for AI: Demonstrated experience implementing AI solutions for test case generation and automated bug triaging.
• Infrastructure Fluency: Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and desire to understand the integration of AI-driven testing into the deployment lifecycle.
• Precision & Speed: Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to move fast in a rapidly evolving FinTech environment.
• Bonus: LLM Integration: Experience building custom GPTs or using LangChain/LangSmith/LangGraf to evaluate LLM-based product features.
• Bonus: FinTech & Crypto: Previous experience in payments, stablecoins, or blockchain technology.
• Bonus: Agentic Testing: Experience experimenting with autonomous agents for exploratory testing.

What you can expect from us:

• Fair and competitive salary at every stage of your growth
• Meaningful ownership in the business through our employee option scheme
• Flexible working hours, with hybrid working at its heart
• A culture built on passionate growth-minded people
• A flexible approach to holiday
• Opportunities to travel to our offices around the world
• An open and creative environment where you can help us define the future of BVNK, its culture, and its opportunity sets

At BVNK, we are focused on building a diverse and inclusive team. While you may not meet all of our requirements, we’d encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of our expectations. You may be a great fit for this role or another role in our team. 

Meet Ozow:  

Ozow is a leading fintech company that's redefining digital payments in South Africa and beyond. We're dedicated to making payments more accessible, secure, and convenient for both businesses and consumers. As a fast-growing player in the financial technology sector, Ozow fosters a culture of innovation, diversity, and inclusivity. We believe in pushing the boundaries of what's possible and are committed to making a positive impact on the world through our payment solutions.  

More about this Ozow fantastic position 

Many support queries are of a technical nature and therefore as an Ozow support engineer you should have a good understanding of Ozow’s system, programming languages, techniques, and concepts used. A key part of this role would be to assist external developers in their attempts to successfully integrate their respective systems with the Ozow system.  

From a support technician to engineers’ point of view, your role is to ensure that customers receive excellent and consistent service to a high standard and handle issues in an efficient and friendly manner. You need to ensure that you know the policies and SLAs that are in place and always adhere to them.   

In the role of support, you are accountable for your own actions, representing the company in the best light possible by always demonstrating our core values. Ultimately, as a team we are all accountable to the customer as they use the services we offer.   

You are an ideal candidate if you have:  

• A proven minimum experience of 2-4 years as a Technical Support Agent 
• Relevant tertiary qualification in information technology, Computer Science or relevant field  
• Experience working with APIs and system integrations  
• Experience in dealing with payment gateways is a nice to have (not a requirement) 
• Experience troubleshooting logs and using dev tools such as Postman to identify root causes 
• An ability to assist other engineering teams and merchants in their integration of our services 
• The ability to work shifts and stand by as Our TSE team provides 24/7 support 
• A good understanding of computer systems, mobile devices, and other technical products  
• The ability to diagnose and troubleshoot basic technical issues  
• Familiarity with remote desktop applications and help desk software 
• Excellent problem-solving skills  
• An ability to work under pressure, particularly when dealing with times of high demand 
• The ability to provide step-by-step technical help, both written and verbal  

• Guide and support development teams on infrastructure, security, and automation best practices.
• Act as a trusted enabler - removing blockers and accelerating delivery through smart tooling and process improvements.
• Contribute to architecture decisions, particularly around cloud-native and serverless workloads.

• Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using TeamCity and related tooling.
• Automate repetitive processes across build, test, and deployment workflows.
• Drive the team's shift toward infrastructure-as-code and self-service automation.

• Manage and optimise cloud infrastructure on AWS, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and ECS.
• Support the migration of workloads toward containerisation using Docker and ECS.
• Maintain high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency across all environments.
• Own environment provisioning and configuration management for both Linux and Windows workloads.

• Embed security practices into the software delivery lifecycle (DevSecOps).
• Monitor infrastructure for vulnerabilities and ensure adherence to fintech regulatory standards.
• Implement and maintain access controls, secrets management, and audit logging.

• Set up and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling across production and staging environments.
• Respond to and lead resolution of infrastructure incidents, conducting post-mortems to prevent recurrence.
• Ensure uptime and reliability targets are consistently met.

• Champion the ongoing journey toward serverless architectures (AWS Lambda / Azure Functions).
• Evaluate and recommend tooling improvements that support Ozow's evolving technical roadmap.
• Collaborate with engineering to modernise legacy infrastructure components incrementally.

• Maintain up-to-date documentation on infrastructure, pipelines, and runbooks.
• Drive adoption of automation and AI-assisted tooling to reduce toil and increase team velocity.
• Lead or contribute to the rollout of new systems, platforms, and DevOps tooling changes across the team.

• An IT diploma or degree (or equivalent hands-on experience).
• At least 3 years of relevant work experience in a DevOps, SysOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
• Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines - specifically TeamCity (Ozow's tool of choice).
• Strong knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and ECS.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration via Kubernetes or ECS.
• Proficiency in both Linux and Windows server environments.
• Experience with scripting and automation (Bash, PowerShell, Python, or similar).
• A strong security mindset with experience implementing DevSecOps practices.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
• Excellent communication skills - you can translate complex infrastructure concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in a high-availability, regulated industry (fintech, banking, or similar) is a bonus.

Meet Ozow 

Ozow is a leading fintech company that's redefining digital payments in South Africa and beyond. We're dedicated to making payments more accessible, secure, and convenient for both businesses and consumers. As a fast-growing player in the financial technology sector, Ozow fosters a culture of innovation, diversity, and inclusivity. We believe in pushing the boundaries of what's possible and are committed to making a positive impact on the world through our payment solutions. 

More about this Ozow fantastic position  

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer, to collaborate with other developers in writing well-designed, testable code. You will be working with a team of passionate technology professionals, developing with modern technologies, and solving tough problems. Our team is hands-on, collaborative and driven. Our expanding team is moving the needle and pushing boundaries.

Your role and responsibilities 

Software Development Quality & Standards 

• Participating in regular code reviews
• Standardisation of technologies, approaches, and architectures across teams
• Active engagement with the development teams on all areas of software development

Agile Collaboration & Team Enablement 

• Liaise with agile coaches and product owners in order to resolve team impediments
• Working with agile coaches, technical leads, development managers, and the executive team to drive architectural changes in projects and deliver on initiatives
• Understanding the interdependency of work items and teams

Process Improvement & Operational Efficiency 

• Active monitoring of the software development process and continuous improvement thereof
• Work with the various development and technical support teams to resolve any production issues timeously and efficiently, keeping business impact to a minimum

You are an ideal candidate if you have 

• At least 7 years of work-related experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer
• Ideally have an IT Diploma or Degree
• Ability to develop software in .Net 8 C#, Javascript, ReactJs, HTML, CSS and other programming languages (polyglots preferred)
• Excellent knowledge of Postgres, Mssql technologies (EF, NHibernate)
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases such as Redis, Riak, MongoDB, and others.
• Experience developing web applications, with a good understanding of how the web works
• Proven experience in high-scale applications and an understanding of the practices and approaches that are employed in scaling applications beneficial.
• Experience with unit testing, knowledge of applying test-driven development beneficial
• Understanding DevOps principals and how to apply them practically beneficial.
• Experience in cloud services preferred – AWS, Azure.
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, Appveyor) highly beneficial.
• Experience working with agile methodologies – a true believer.

Meet Ozow 

Ozow is a leading fintech company that's redefining digital payments in South Africa and beyond. We're dedicated to making payments more accessible, secure, and convenient for both businesses and consumers. As a fast-growing player in the financial technology sector, Ozow fosters a culture of innovation, diversity, and inclusivity. We believe in pushing the boundaries of what's possible and are committed to making a positive impact on the world through our payment solutions.  

More about this Ozow fantastic position   

Ozow is seeking a Software Engineer to join our talented development team. As a Software Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining innovative solutions that power our digital payment platforms. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology, solve complex challenges, and contribute to the growth of the fintech industry.  

Your role and responsibilities 

Software Development 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and maintain software solutions that meet high-quality standards and business requirements.  

Coding 

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code while following best practices and coding standards.  

Technical Problem Solving 

• Analyze and troubleshoot complex technical issues and implement effective solutions.  

System Architecture 

• Contribute to the design and architecture of software systems, ensuring scalability, security, and performance.  

Code Reviews 

• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and knowledge sharing within the team.  

Agile Development 

• Work in an Agile environment, participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.  

Documentation 

• Create and maintain technical documentation for software and processes.  

Mentoring 

• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members as needed.  

You are an ideal candidate if you have 

• At least 4+ years of work-related experience as a Software Engineer or Software Developer  
• Ideally have an IT Diploma or Degree  
• Ability to develop software in .NET 8 C#, JavaScript, ReactJs, HTML, CSS and other programming languages (polyglots preferred)  
• Excellent knowledge of Postgres, Mssql technologies (EF, NHibernate)  
• Knowledge of NoSQL databases such as Redis, Riak, MongoDB, and others.  
• Experience developing web applications, with a good understanding of how the web works  
• Proven experience in high-scale applications and an understanding of the practices and approaches that are employed in scaling applications beneficial.  
• Experience with unit testing, knowledge of applying test-driven development beneficial  
• Understanding DevOps principals and how to apply them practically beneficial.  
• Experience in cloud services preferred – AWS, Azure.  
• Experience with containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy) highly beneficial.  
• Experience working with agile methodologies – a true believer  

Job summary

As a Senior Full-Stack Engineer, you will work on designing, developing, and maintaining web applications, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and perform well across different environments. You will collaborate closely with product managers and other engineers to create seamless user experiences and ensure the smooth integration of front-end and back-end components.

What you will do

• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and other teams to design and implement scalable, secure, and maintainable web applications that meet customer needs.
• Develop the front-end of the application using React, ensuring an engaging and responsive user interface.
• Work on the Java-based backend to implement business logic, database interaction, and integration with other services.
• Ensure the integration of back-end services with the front-end, enabling seamless data flow and communication between components.
• Implement cloud services (AWS or other cloud platforms) for scalability and performance optimization, ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable and cost-effective.
• Monitor and optimize application performance and system reliability, collaborating across teams to resolve issues.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices and development standards.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in both development and production environments, ensuring minimal downtime and quick resolution of bugs.
• Participate in code reviews to maintain high code quality and ensure consistency across the team.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in full-stack development and cloud technologies.
• Contribute to architectural decisions, ensuring ystems are designed for scalability, maintainability, and security.

What you will have

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience in software development, with strong proficiency in React and Java.
• Experience with modern front-end technologies and best practices (e.g., state management, component libraries, UI/UX design).
• Proficiency in Java backend development, including RESTful APIs, database integration (e.g., SQL, NoSQL), and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and experience in deploying and managing cloud-based applications.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
• Familiarity with DevOps tools and Infrastructure as Code (e.g Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills, with the ability to quickly identify and resolve issues in production environments.
• Knowledge of version control using Git, and experience with agile development methodologies.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work in a cross-functional team.

Benefits

• Provident Fund
• Medical Aid + Gap Cover
• Employee Assistance Program
• Gym Reimbursement
• Life Insurance
• Disability Insurance

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About impact.com

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral)—unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Your Role at impact.com:

As a Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead for Data Systems, you will lead a squad of engineers focused on designing, building, and maintaining data systems that are maintainable, reliable, and understandable at scale. You will set technical direction, own squad-level delivery outcomes, and manage the health and growth of your team - all while remaining a strong hands-on engineering contributor.

This role is centered on designing resilient distributed systems, including handling retries, partial failures, backpressure, and consistency tradeoffs. You will set the bar for clear interfaces, strong tests, and solid observability (metrics and tracing) so our systems are easy to run, debug, and evolve - and hold the team to that bar consistently.

You are expected to function as the primary technical and people leader for your squad: breaking down complex problems into well-defined units of work, driving planning and cross-team alignment, governing releases and stability, and developing your direct reports through coaching and feedback.

This is a software engineering leadership role, not a data analysis/statistical role or an ETL/SQL-focused role.

Essential Responsibilities

• Own squad-level delivery, technical direction, and outcomes (quality, stability, deadlines) across multiple workstreams
• Provide direct people management: coaching, performance feedback, career development, delegation, hiring input, and team health
• Set and align technical approach for the squad; make or drive key decisions, resolve cross-engineer disagreements, and ensure designs fit architecture and guidelines
• Drive coordination to meet quarterly objectives - work breakdown, sequencing, dependency management, and alignment with stakeholders across a distributed team
• Serve as the final accountable approver for PRs, release readiness, point releases, and build/stage stability; ensure operational discipline is followed
• Own timely incident response patterns, drive follow-up, ensure preventative actions happen (not just fixes), and improve processes to reduce recurrence
• Set engineering standards for the squad (documentation expectations, review rigor, testing discipline, quality bars) and ensure consistency
• Break down complex data logic into small, testable units and model this practice for the team
• Instrument systems with strong observability - metrics and tracing - to support debugging and operational confidence
• Develop code both independently and while pair programming

This is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Required Qualifications

Education & Experience

• Completed B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
• 4+ years of Software Development experience, including experience leading or tech-leading a team

Technical Skills (Non-Negotiable)

• Comfort and proficiency in a typed language such as Java, Scala, or Kotlin
• Strong software engineering habits: modularity, testing, abstraction
• Proven ability to set and evolve technical direction for a squad or workstream
• Knowledge of software design patterns and the ability to select and implement the right pattern for a given problem
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and building meaningful test suites
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration / Delivery methods, tooling, and integrations

Competencies

• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills
• People leadership - ability to coach, give feedback, and develop engineers at varying levels
• Ability to drive planning, sequencing, and cross-team alignment across a distributed team
• Attention to detail and commitment to raising and maintaining quality standards for the team
• Critical thinking and creative problem-solving
• Ability to communicate clearly and show engagement in both remote and in-person meetings; comfortable presenting technical direction to stakeholders

Work Requirements

• Must be willing to work 2 days per week in office for collaboration with the team
• Currently based locally in Cape Town or willing to relocate

Nice-to-Have Qualifications

• Curiosity about distributed data systems (Spark experience is a plus, but not required)
• Experience breaking down complex data logic into small, testable units
• Exposure to any Google Cloud technology
• Experience with large-scale data processing systems
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and production support
• Open-source contributions

What We're Looking For in a Teammate

• Curious - asks good questions, seeks to understand the "why" behind decisions
• Flexible - willing to change direction when priorities shift
• Hungry - a self-starter who takes initiative and owns their work and their team's outcomes
• Humble - open to feedback, eager to learn and grow, and models this for their reports
• Communicative - shows engagement and clarity in both remote and in-person settings
• Accountable - takes ownership of commitments and outcomes at both the individual and squad level

Benefits and Perks: 

At impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

• Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We're committed to a positive work-life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.
• Health and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
• A Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of our total compensation, giving you a stake in the company's growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.
• Parental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.
• Technology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your internet expenses

impact.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

With the growth of our iOS app, being the #18 productivity app in the App Store category and also our recent recognition as Apple's 2025 Design Award for inclusivity, we find the need for a Senior iOS Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push our missing forward.   

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Opportunity to lead key engineering and product decisions
• Actively shipping production code for the Speechify iOS app
• Work within a dedicated product team
• Participate in product discussions to shape the product roadmap
• Maintain and enhance the existing complex app architecture

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Experience. You've worked on products that scaled to a large user base
• Track record. You have worked on various products from inception to decent traction. You have been responsible for engineering the product
• Customer obsession. We expect every team member whose responsibilities directly impact customers to be constantly obsessed about providing the best possible experience
• Product thinking. You make thoughtful decisions about the evolution of your product and support internal teams and designers into taking the right direction
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Technical skills. Swift, SwiftUI

Technical Requirements:

• Swift Programming Language
• SwiftUI experience
• Experience in Multithreading Programming
• Working with CI/CD infrastructure
• Experience with Fastlane
• SOLID principles, the ability to write every single class according to SOLID
• Experience with Git and understanding of different Git strategies

What We offer:

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product
• An entrepreneurial crew that supports risk, intuition, and hustle
• The opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry
• A competitive salary, a collegiate atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture
• Work on a product that millions of people use and where daily feedback includes users sharing that they cried when they first found the product because it was so impactful on their lives
• Support people with learning differences like Dyslexia, ADD, Low Vision, Concussions, Autism, and Second Language Learners, and give reading superpowers to professionals all over the world
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech: Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Audio

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Mission

Speechify is the easiest way to listen to the world’s information. Articles on the web, documents in the cloud, books on your phone. We absorb it all and let you listen to it at your desk, on the go, at your own speed, and with tools that make learning easier, deeper, and faster.

What streaming services have done for audio entertainment, we’re doing for audio information. And whatever we’re doing seems to be working. We’re #1 in our category, and experiencing exponential growth.

Overview

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Core Experiences Team. This team builds and maintains the foundational services and SDKs that power Speechify’s product experience across platforms. It's a critical role for someone who enjoys working at the intersection of product and infrastructure, thinks strategically, and is passionate about designing clear, reliable APIs and simple systems that directly enhance the user experience.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with Speechify’s Product Teams to scope projects, find ways to reduce scope to get faster feedback from customers, navigate the integration/UX tradeoffs relevant to different product teams, and deliver solutions via our cross-platform SDK
• Optimize existing functionality to ship things like faster loading and more intelligent parsing by designing more efficient abstractions and improving our algorithms
• Ship cloud functions, lightweight backend services, and jobs using Kotlin

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• Systems thinking. You know that optimizing a system requires end-to-end design, and you believe simplicity is valuable.
• Speed. You work quickly to generate ideas and options and know how to decide which things can ship now and what things need time
• Focus. We’re a high-growth startup with a busy, remote team. You know how and when to engage or be heads down
• Collaboration. You know how to inspire, play, and negotiate with opinionated designers, marketers, and PMs
• Preferred Tech Stack:
  • Kotlin Multiplatform (Java experience is OK but role is Kotlin Multiplatform) 
  • Prior experience with GCP is a plus

What We Offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Required:

• 3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML — and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).
• Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.
• Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.
• Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).
• Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
• Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.
• A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.

Preferred / Bonus:

• Experience with writing automated tests for UI — unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.
• Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).
• Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.
• Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
• Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.
• Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.

What we offer

• A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.
• A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture — you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.
• Opportunities to lead — mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).
• Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.
• A purpose-driven mission: building software that’s reliable, accessible, and user-centered — making a real difference for people.                  

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 
Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 
Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

What we offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its Design award winner for inclusivity for 2025.

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

With the growth of our Android app, being the most used text-to-speech app in the Play Store, we find the need for a Senior Android Engineer to help us support the new user base as well as work on new and exciting projects to push us forward.   

This is a key role and ideal for someone who thinks strategically, enjoys fast-paced environments, passionate about making product decisions, and has experience building great user experiences that delight users.

We are a flat organization that allows anyone to become a leader by showing excellent technical skills and delivering results consistently and fast. Work ethic, solid communication skills, and obsession with winning are paramount. 

Our interview process involves several technical interviews and we aim to complete them within 1 week. 

What You’ll Do

• Owning major features and working closely with our design team - take ownership of features inside the app and become responsible of delivering high quality features
• Shape the future of our Android team
• Own, maintain and improve reliability metrics for key features
• Participate in discussions across different teams - Product, Design, Engineering
• Review pull requests, and support other teammates
• Handle critical issues or cope with unexpected challenges 
• Take ownership of feature releases and provide nightly builds for the QA team

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Familiarity with Android components
• Experience building or contributing to at least one Android app
• Product design intuition and user empathy
• Drive to push the boundaries of Android UI/UX
• Understanding of the importance of tests and how to approach writing tests
• Self-drive to improve the app and codebase above and beyond what's outlined in the spec
• Rock solid experience with Kotlin, Kotlin Coroutines, Kotlin Flow, Dagger 2, MVVM, Clean Architecture, Background Services, Music Player Service, Android Animations, Jetpack Navigation, JUnit tests
• Excellent communication skills
• User oriented problem solving approach
• Driven with continuous feedback from leaders

Bonus:

• Experience building, maintaining, or otherwise contributing to open source projects in Android
• Experience with iOS, Web or NodeJS

Technologies we use:

• Kotlin
• Kotlin Coroutines
• Kotlin Flow
• Jetpack Navigation
• Dagger 2
• Room
• Custom Views, Canvas & Paint
• Jetpack Compose
• JUnit

What We offer:

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

Think you’re a good fit for this job? 

Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.
And don’t forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.

Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit? 

Refer them! 

Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Please submit your resume in English.

To learn more about our team and office culture in Cape Town, South Africa visit the following links. 
Careers Page: https://www.knowbe4.com/careers/locations/cape-town
Glassdoor: https://www.glassdoor.com/Location/KnowBe4-Cape-Town-Location-EI_IE969384.0,7_IL.8,17_IC2653748.htm
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/knowbe4/life/southafrica/

We are looking for a Machine Learning Engineer to help scale the industrialization of our ML lifecycle. This is a Builder’s Role - you will be responsible for the high-scale architecture that allows our models to survive production. You’ll be a key contributor to our MLOps ecosystem, moving beyond experimentation to build high-throughput, distributed systems that serve as the backbone of our intelligence products.

Machine Learning Engineers help us extract value from our data. They are involved in all the processes from data collection, cleaning, and preprocessing, to training models and deploying them to production. This position will assess, analyze, and organize data, execute tests, and optimize the learning process to develop high-performance machine learning models.

Responsibilities:

• Develops software using the KnowBe4 Software Development Lifecycle and Agile Methodologies
• Designs, develops, and researches Machine Learning systems
• Transforms data science prototypes by applying appropriate Machine Learning algorithms and tools
• Performs statistical analysis and using results to improve models
• Inference Engineering: Drive the deployment and optimization of both standard predictive models and LLM architectures, balancing trade-offs between low latency, high throughput, and cost-efficiency
• Platform Hardening: Transition research prototypes into resilient, production-ready microservices that can handle massive traffic
• Lifecycle Orchestration: Execute automated pipelines for data and model versioning, validation, and retraining
• Observability: Implement advanced monitoring for model drift, data integrity, and system health to ensure production reliability
• Collaborative Standards: Uphold clean code practices, thorough documentation, and participate in rigorous code reviews across the ML and Engineering teams

Requirements:

• BS or equivalent plus 3 years experience
• MS/Ph.D. or equivalent plus no experience
• Training in secure coding practices (preferred)
• AI/ML and Core: Python (production-grade), PyTorch
• Data and Features: Apache Spark for distributed processing; experience with Feature Stores or automated feature engineering is a plus
• Infrastructure: AWS (SageMaker, Lambda), Docker, and Terraform/IaC for environment reproducibility
• Specialized Tooling: Experience with custom inference optimization (Python-based); orchestration via lean, custom AWS and Python-based solutions using Lambda and MLflow
•  Additional: C# and JavaScript (beneficial)
• Familiarity with secure coding practices

The Reality Check:

While the title says pure ML, the day-to-day is data heavy and is also focused on the AI and ML Platform Engineering around our services. Expect a roughly 90/10 split - the vast majority of your impact will come from hardening data pipelines, refining CI/CD for ML, and building world-class observability, with the remaining portion dedicated to model building, implementation and tuning.

Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group is looking for a Mid-level and Senior Software Engineer to shape the Future of South African Ecommerce 🚀

Are you ready to make a real impact in one of South Africa’s most dynamic tech environments?

If you’re passionate about building scalable, reliable, and efficient systems that directly impact millions of users across the country, this is your opportunity to level up your career.

Why Engineers Choose Mr D

🎯 High-Impact Work That Matters

Work on projects that directly shape how South Africans shop, eat, and live. Our engineers tell us they love the high-impact nature of their work, you’ll see your code making a real difference in people’s daily lives, not just sitting in a corporate void.

📈 Unlimited Growth Potential

We invest in our people. With plenty of resources dedicated to professional development and genuine room to grow, you’ll have the support you need to advance your career. Whether you want to dive deeper into technical excellence or explore leadership opportunities, we’ve got your back.

🔧 Modern Tech Stack & Technical Freedom

Love Python? You’re in good company. Work with cutting-edge technologies and enjoy the freedom to choose the right tools and solutions for each challenge. Our engineers appreciate the modern tech stack and the autonomy to innovate without being boxed into outdated systems.

⚡ Lean & Efficient Culture

Say goodbye to endless meetings and bureaucratic red tape. We maintain a lean work mentality that keeps you focused on what you do best - building great software. Quick deployments, fast rollbacks, and a results-driven environment where your contributions are valued and visible.

🤝 Collaborate with Exceptional People

Join cross-skilled teams filled with smart people who are passionate about their craft. Our engineers highlight the quality of collaboration and the supportive, politics free work culture built on honesty and integrity.

🏠 Flexible Work, Balanced Life

Enjoy remote working options, flexible hours, and hybrid arrangements that fit your lifestyle. With on-call that’s not 24/7 and perks like birthday leave, Takealot staff discounts, and free Mr D delivery, we make sure work enhances rather than dominates your life.

What You’ll Be Building

As a Senior Software Engineer at Mr D, you’ll architect and develop systems that handle millions of transactions and solve complex technical challenges at scale. You’ll work on everything that fuels the Mr D experience with the freedom to explore new technologies and interesting patterns.

You’ll be designing and maintaining secure, scalable APIs, developing distributed backend systems with stateless architectures, and working with event streaming technologies. From containerized microservices to cloud-native solutions, you’ll be at the forefront of modern software engineering.

What We’re Looking For

🎓 Technical Foundation

We need someone with a thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, object-oriented concepts, data structures, and algorithms.
Your Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) should be backed by 5+ years of hands-on Software Development experience.

💻 Core Technical Skills

• Python & *nix expertise - You’re comfortable in Unix/Linux environments and passionate about Python development
• Distributed Systems - Experience developing distributed backend systems and stateless architectures
• API Design - Proven ability to design and maintain secure and scalable APIs
• Data & Streaming - Hands-on experience with event streaming, relational & non-relational datastores
• Cloud & Containers - Experience with containerization and cloud service providers

⭐ Nice-to-Have Experience

• AWS Cloud technologies for scalable, cloud-native solutions
• Version Control with GIT for collaborative development
• Database Technologies: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic, Redis
• Event Streaming: Kafka for real-time data processing
• Orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes for container management

🚀 The Mr D Mindset

Most importantly, we’re looking for someone with a passion for learning new skills and an appreciation for inventing and simplifying. You should love solving complex problems and have the drive to continuously improve both your craft and our systems.

Ready to Make Your Mark?

Join a company where leadership transparency flows from the CEO down, where your professional environment supports your growth, and where you’ll have plenty of interesting work to sink your teeth into.

Mr D isn’t just another tech job - it’s where senior developers come to do their best work, grow their careers, and build systems that matter.

Ready to take the next step in your engineering journey? Let’s talk. Mr D - Delivering more than just food. Delivering careers that matter.

Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference

Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group is looking for a Mid level and Senior Software Engineer to shape the Future of South African Ecommerce 🚀

Are you ready to make a real impact in one of South Africa’s most dynamic tech environments?

If you’re passionate about building scalable, reliable, and efficient systems that directly impact millions of users across the country, this is your opportunity to level up your career.

Why Engineers Choose Mr D

🎯 High-Impact Work That Matters

Work on projects that directly shape how South Africans shop, eat, and live. Our engineers tell us they love the high-impact nature of their work, you’ll see your code making a real difference in people’s daily lives, not just sitting in a corporate void.

📈 Unlimited Growth Potential

We invest in our people. With plenty of resources dedicated to professional development and genuine room to grow, you’ll have the support you need to advance your career. Whether you want to dive deeper into technical excellence or explore leadership opportunities, we’ve got your back.

🔧 Modern Tech Stack & Technical Freedom

Love Python? You’re in good company. Work with cutting-edge technologies and enjoy the freedom to choose the right tools and solutions for each challenge. Our engineers appreciate the modern tech stack and the autonomy to innovate without being boxed into outdated systems.

⚡ Lean & Efficient Culture

Say goodbye to endless meetings and bureaucratic red tape. We maintain a lean work mentality that keeps you focused on what you do best - building great software. Quick deployments, fast rollbacks, and a results-driven environment where your contributions are valued and visible.

🤝 Collaborate with Exceptional People

Join cross-skilled teams filled with smart people who are passionate about their craft. Our engineers highlight the quality of collaboration and the supportive, politics free work culture built on honesty and integrity.

🏠 Flexible Work, Balanced Life

Enjoy remote working options, flexible hours, and hybrid arrangements that fit your lifestyle. With on-call that’s not 24/7 and perks like birthday leave, Takealot staff discounts, and free Mr D delivery, we make sure work enhances rather than dominates your life.

What You’ll Be Building

As a Senior Software Engineer at Mr D, you’ll architect and develop systems that handle millions of transactions and solve complex technical challenges at scale. You’ll work on everything that fuels the Mr D experience with the freedom to explore new technologies and interesting patterns.

You’ll be designing and maintaining secure, scalable APIs, developing distributed backend systems with stateless architectures, and working with event streaming technologies. From containerized microservices to cloud-native solutions, you’ll be at the forefront of modern software engineering.

What We’re Looking For

🎓 Technical Foundation

We need someone with a thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, object-oriented concepts, data structures, and algorithms.
Your Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) should be backed by 5+ years of hands-on Software Development experience.

💻 Core Technical Skills

• Python & *nix expertise - You’re comfortable in Unix/Linux environments and passionate about Python development
• Distributed Systems - Experience developing distributed backend systems and stateless architectures
• API Design - Proven ability to design and maintain secure and scalable APIs
• Data & Streaming - Hands-on experience with event streaming, relational & non-relational datastores
• Cloud & Containers - Experience with containerization and cloud service providers

⭐ Nice-to-Have Experience

• AWS Cloud technologies for scalable, cloud-native solutions
• Version Control with GIT for collaborative development
• Database Technologies: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic, Redis
• Event Streaming: Kafka for real-time data processing
• Orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes for container management

🚀 The Mr D Mindset

Most importantly, we’re looking for someone with a passion for learning new skills and an appreciation for inventing and simplifying. You should love solving complex problems and have the drive to continuously improve both your craft and our systems.

Ready to Make Your Mark?

Join a company where leadership transparency flows from the CEO down, where your professional environment supports your growth, and where you’ll have plenty of interesting work to sink your teeth into.

Mr D isn’t just another tech job - it’s where senior developers come to do their best work, grow their careers, and build systems that matter.

Ready to take the next step in your engineering journey? Let’s talk. Mr D - Delivering more than just food. Delivering careers that matter.

Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference

At 2U, we are all in on purpose. We are motivated by our mission – to eliminate the back row in education – and connected by our shared passion to deliver world-class digital education at scale. As the parent company of edX, the world’s leading online learning platform, 2U powers more than 4,000 online higher education offerings – from free courses to full degrees. Together with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporate partners, we are helping to unlock human potential.

What We’re Looking For:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Data Engineer III to serve as a key individual contributor responsible for architecting, implementing, and maintaining robust Data Technology Systems across the entire Modern Data Stack (Data Integration, Storage, Transformation, and Governance). This role demands deep technical proficiency and architectural foresight, requiring the candidate to be hands-on, capable of diving deep into any part of the stack, and executing complex technical work efficiently. 

As a senior member of the team, you will spearhead technical and infrastructure innovation, mature our code base and development processes, and provide essential technical guidance and mentorship to Junior and Intermediate Data Engineers. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including Analytics Engineers and Product Managers, to ensure the delivery of optimized data pipelines and reliable, high-impact data products.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

• Technical
• Design and build robust, scalable, and high-performance ETL/ELT data pipelines
• Develop and implement solutions using advanced programming languages (e.g., Python, SQL, DBT)
• Optimize and performance-tune complex data workflows and queries to handle massive data volumes and ensure minimal latency
• Assist with the design and implementation of data models for Data Warehouses (Snowflake etc.)
• Implement data quality frameworks (validation, monitoring, and testing) to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and completeness
• Establish comprehensive error logging and alerting systems for pipeline health and failure remediation
• Apply DevOps practices to data infrastructure, often involving Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
• Management 
• Effectively leverage knowledge, expertise and experience to lead and deliver projects
• Effectively support and mentor data engineers
• Business
• Stakeholder management throughout all business departments
• Collaborate with other engineers and analysts to execute projects
• Personal 
• Perform research and constantly stays on top of the industry’s trends
• Engage and proactively seek opportunities for improvement through ongoing learning

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

• 5+ years experience in the Data industry
  • 4+ years experience in a Data Engineering role
• Expert in SQL to then implement where needed in Data Warehousing systems and Data Pipelines
• PostgreSQL / MySQL / Python / R / Redshift / Snowflake experience
• Experience in database design and database management
• A sound understanding of data management principles, including data quality assurance and data governance
• Experience in source code and version control systems
• Experience with infrastructure automation (Terraform) 
• Familiarity working with containerized services (Docker and Kubernetes)
• Experience in the shipment of data using various methods, such as ETL/ELT, within tools such as Airflow (MWAA), Argo, dbt
• Experience using services within the AWS ecosystem (e.g, RDS, EC2, Redshift, EKS)
• Understanding or knowledge of Linux commands (bash scripting)
• Manages multiple projects, resolves challenges swiftly, delivers adaptable approaches, and values diverse opinions.
• Takes ownership, anticipates new problems, tests solutions, and mentors on effective problem-solving techniques.
• Sets quarterly goals aligned with team objectives, tracks progress in Workday, and communicates barriers to the manager. Takes personal responsibility for quality and timeliness of work, correcting mistakes and learning from them. 
• Demonstrates expert understanding, introduces new tools/methodologies, and provides team training to enhance productivity.
• Tailors messages for audience understanding, engages respectfully in team meetings, synthesizes thoughts effectively, presents confidently, and actively listens to stakeholders.
• Consistently builds and maintains key stakeholder relationships, perceived as a trusted partner, offers sound guidance, and navigates challenging relationships effectively.

Other Attributes That Will Help You In This Role:

• A degree in Computer Science/Information Systems/Engineering preferred

Benefits & Culture

Our global employee base is a diverse collection of innovators, dreamers, and doers working together to transform lives through higher education. We believe that every employee can advance our shared purpose, and that life at 2U should be fun and meaningful. If you’re excited by the opportunity to provide over 40 million learners and counting with access to world-class online higher education, then join us – and do work that makes a difference. #NoBackRow

We offer comprehensive benefits (unique per country) and excellent work/life balance.
Full-time, ZA benefits include: 

• 2 complimentary Getsmarter short courses per year
• Subsidised medical aid with Discovery Health Medical Scheme
• 4% 2U contribution towards Discovery Life Pension Fund and Group Risk Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Generous leave policy including time off to volunteer for non-profit organization, study leave, sports leave and a company-wide festive season break

2U Diversity and Inclusion Statement

At 2U, we are committed to building and sustaining a culture of belonging, respect, and inclusion. We are proud of the steps we’ve taken to bring together an employee base that embodies diverse walks of life, ideas, genders, ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities and other unique qualities. We strive to offer a workplace where every employee feels empowered by what makes us different, as well as by how we are alike. 

2U is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodations, please reach out to us at: recruitingaccommodations@2u.com. 

About 2U

For more than a decade, 2U has been the digital transformation partner of choice to great non-profit colleges and universities delivering high-quality online education at scale. As the parent company of edX, a leading global online learning platform, 2U provides over 45 million learners with access to world-class education in partnership with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporations. Our people and technology are powering more than 4,000 digital education offerings — from free courses to full degrees — and helping unlock human potential. To learn more: visit 2U.com.

About edX

edX is the education movement for restless learners and a leading global online learning platform from 2U. Together with the majority of the world’s top-ranked universities and industry-leading companies, we bring our community of over 45 million learners world-class education to support them at every stage of their lives and careers, from free courses to full degrees. And we're not stopping there — we're relentlessly pursuing our vision of a world where every learner can access education to unlock their potential, without the barriers of cost or location. Learn more at edX.org.

Learn more at https://2u.com/careers/
#NoBackRow

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this position, and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

2U is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against applicants or employees and ensures equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of their race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, marital status, disability, citizenship, military or veterans’ status, or any other classifications protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. 2U’s equal opportunity policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, job benefits and pay. 

2U is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. 2U requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

At 2U, we are all in on purpose. We are motivated by our mission – to eliminate the back row in education – and connected by our shared passion to deliver world-class digital education at scale. As the parent company of edX, the world’s leading online learning platform, 2U powers more than 4,000 online higher education offerings – from free courses to full degrees. Together with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporate partners, we are helping to unlock human potential.

What We’re Looking For:

The Media Systems Engineer works within the 2U Learning division as the resident expert in media post-production workflows and best practices. They will serve as the system administrator for the post-production environment including 2U’s enterprise media asset management system, media storage solution, and all ancillary post-production related equipment and peripherals that enable workflows including ingest, transcoding, video editing, motion graphics, audio mixing, color correction, video quality assurance, and final delivery. This pivotal role will be a key liaison between 2U post production teams across product lines including Graduate and Undergraduate Degrees, Executive Education, and edX.

This role will collaborate with internal 2U departments including Engineering, Production Innovation, Learning Technology, and IT, as well as external post production vendors, our systems integration partner, and product suppliers to ensure continued proper protocols as they relate to security, ongoing maintenance, updates, and enhancements to post production systems. This person will also work with the Media Systems Specialist to provide guidance and delegate day to day responsibilities. This person is a passionate media and tech enthusiast, constantly monitoring and absorbing media production and ed-tech industry norms, as well as the latest technical solutions including hardware, equipment and post-production related software. The person in this role will aid in determining 2U’s media and video technological vision, implementing media technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company's business needs.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

1. Serve as global Administrator and in-house SME for media/video post-production systems including media asset management solution, AWS storage infrastructure in partnership with 2U IT/Engineering, and all media-related equipment and peripherals

• Monitor performance and maintain post-production systems according to established requirements.
• Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders and external vendors who are users within 2U’s MAM environment. 
• Main liaison between 2U, post-production vendors, systems integration partner, and product suppliers for ongoing required support and troubleshooting of system anomalies. 
• Provide technical expertise for all post-production editorial and technical staff including editors and motions graphics designers, video post-production management staff, and production staff for day-to-day video engineering needs encompassing all related disciplines such as operational system support monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Ensure security of the media post production environment leveraging deployed tools through access controls, backups, and firewalls.
• Establish and manage all user permissions and track licensing and usage.
• Troubleshoot access issues and outages among end users.
• Administer, support, and operate AWS/S3 tools and cloud-based storage; monitor and report on ingress and egress in collaboration with 2U Engineering team.
• Administer, support, and operate file-based encoding, transcoding, and media conform workflows from ingest through final delivery.
• Manage and inventory all 2U-owned local (US-based) hard drives, RAID storage, and LTO archive library if applicable. 
• Support and operate LTO archive library, RAID storage, and hard drives, as necessary in conjunction with current 2U post production vendor
• Assist with software configurations for physical/local/remote servers and ingest/edit workstations as required.
• Install and maintain physical/local servers and ingest/edit workstations as required.
• Troubleshoot any machine/equipment failures, software glitches, and offline/missing media, escalating to SI partner when necessary.
• Help evaluate and troubleshoot technical quality control issues related to media, including both raw and final assets, and work with stakeholders executing media acquisition on resolving these issues. 
• Make recommendations and implement upgrades to media post-production systems and software with new models and releases in order to support increasing scale, complexity requirements, and future functionality enhancements. 
• Provide insight on required technical specifications for production including field and studio acquisition.

2. Develop, introduce, monitor, and improve workflows and automation in partnership with various stakeholders including internal and external post production teams.

• Develop efficient workflows based on best practices essential to a media post production operation. 
• Develop and update technical documentation, policies, and SOPs for media and editorial workflows.
• Collaborate with 2U’s systems integration partner, product vendors, and internal 2U stakeholders to develop and test API integrations. 
• Participate and advise on best practices for Adobe Creative Suite project and sequence organizational structures, MAM metadata architecture, and taxonomy standards.
• Identify new areas for a more streamlined approach to relevant production and post-production work including automation considerations. 
• Support vendor and partner inquiries regarding external media production best practices and technical deliverable requirements. 
• Participate in discussions and/or review of updates or modifications to overall operational workflows and SOPs, as appropriate.
• Maintain and update technical quality control specifications.

3. Training/Coaching.

• Responsible for training Media Systems Specialist and internal 2U staff and external vendors on related 2U systems who participate in production and post production processes including advising on technical specifications for filming/recording, editing, graphics, audio, and video quality control and assurance.
• Develop expertise on all aspects of 2U’s post-production environment including deployed MAM software and AWS storage.
• Develop and maintain training materials including user-guides, documentation, screen share recordings, etc. for user groups.
• Communicate rollouts of new video post production tools and resources to user groups.
• Training and facilitating internal 2U and external vendor training for any user groups leveraging MAM.
• Provide orientation to external/freelance technical and editorial staff (e.g. video editors) to post-production operational systems.

4. Take on additional duties and responsibilities as required.

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

• Bachelor’s Degree is required.  
• 7+ years of professional video/media production/post production, engineering and operations experience.
• Experience as a System Administrator, Network Administrator or similar role in support of a complex media post production operation.
• Experience with various operating systems and platforms.
• Experience with databases, networks (LAN, WAN), and cloud-based media storage. AWS/S3 and tiered cloud storage experience is a plus. 
• Experience with media processing systems and workflows at various stages of the media supply chain (workflow engines, ingest, transcode, metadata, editing, delivery). 
• Comprehensive knowledge of file-based and proxy workflows, formats, frame rates, aspect ratios, codecs and file types required for a high-volume media post production environment.
• Expertise in media post-production software and editing techniques on non-linear editing platforms including the full Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience with enterprise media asset management software. IPV Curator experience is a plus. 
• Full knowledge of encode hardware and transcode software applications. Root 6 workflow engine experience is a plus.
• Knowledge of system security and data backup/recovery.
• Experience with LTO Archive software and hardware.
• Experience with product/project management software, Atlassian Jira is a plus.
• Expertise leveraging various technology and software solutions including Google Suite, Microsoft Office, Slack and overall web-savviness.
• Knowledge of technical aspects of video production, including best practices for filming, lighting and audio engineering techniques.
• Familiarity with video closed captioning and transcription workflows.
• Maintains a high level of professionalism and has the ability to interface effectively with a variety of people including internal staff, executive management, and vendors to establish productive, ongoing relationships. 
• Ability to work with a team with the ultimate goal of creating the highest quality academic content possible for our university partners.
• Impeccable verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate in a courteous, tactful, and concise manner.
• Champion of change management, with a proven ability to influence and guide stakeholders on highly technical processes.
• Supremely organized and capable of handling multiple projects, priorities, and competing deadlines simultaneously.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ever-evolving environment that requires constant agility and adaptability.
• An intuitive decision-maker with excellent critical thinking and analytical skills.
• A positive, proactive and collaborative attitude.  
• A great sense of humor and the ability to handle stress with grace.

Other Attributes That Will Help You In This Role:

Working Conditions 

Limited travel may be required on an as-needed basis. There will be an intermittent requirement to support media post-production teams in different time zones. 

Physical Requirements

May need to transport/install/rack various post-production related equipment.

Benefits & Culture

Our global employee base is a diverse collection of innovators, dreamers, and doers working together to transform lives through higher education. We believe that every employee can advance our shared purpose, and that life at 2U should be fun and meaningful. If you’re excited by the opportunity to provide over 40 million learners and counting with access to world-class online higher education, then join us – and do work that makes a difference. #NoBackRow

We offer comprehensive benefits (unique per country) and excellent work/life balance.
Full-time, ZA benefits include: 

• 2 complimentary Getsmarter short courses per year
• Subsidised medical aid with Discovery Health Medical Scheme
• 4% 2U contribution towards Discovery Life Pension Fund and Group Risk Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Generous leave policy including time off to volunteer for non-profit organization, study leave, sports leave and a company-wide festive season break

2U Diversity and Inclusion Statement

At 2U, we are committed to building and sustaining a culture of belonging, respect, and inclusion. We are proud of the steps we’ve taken to bring together an employee base that embodies diverse walks of life, ideas, genders, ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities and other unique qualities. We strive to offer a workplace where every employee feels empowered by what makes us different, as well as by how we are alike. 

2U is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodations, please reach out to us at: recruitingaccommodations@2u.com. 

About 2U Inc. 

For more than a decade, 2U, Inc. has been the digital transformation partner of choice to great non-profit colleges and universities delivering high-quality online education at scale. As the parent company of edX, a leading global online learning platform, 2U provides over 45 million learners with access to world-class education in partnership with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporations. Our people and technology are powering more than 4,000 digital education offerings — from free courses to full degrees — and helping unlock human potential. To learn more: visit 2U.com.

About edX

edX is the education movement for restless learners and a leading global online learning platform from 2U, Inc. Together with the majority of the world’s top-ranked universities and industry-leading companies, we bring our community of over 45 million learners world-class education to support them at every stage of their lives and careers, from free courses to full degrees. And we're not stopping there — we're relentlessly pursuing our vision of a world where every learner can access education to unlock their potential, without the barriers of cost or location. Learn more at edX.org.

Learn more at https://2u.com/careers/
#NoBackRow

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this position, and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

2U is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against applicants or employees and ensures equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of their race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, marital status, disability, citizenship, military or veterans’ status, or any other classifications protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. 2U’s equal opportunity policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, job benefits and pay. 

2U is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. 2U requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineering Manager to join our team in South Africa. 

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill 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. 

Who’s who in the tech space

The position reports to the Engineering Director: Logistics.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Build and retain a high-caliber engineering team
• Build relationships through regular one-on-one conversations
• Remove roadblocks and interruptions to help the team perform
• Be involved with architectural and strategic planning with peers and senior developers
• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements, and manage expectations
• Support and develop the careers of members of the team
• Support and give direction to innovation in the team
• Present practical input for strategic technology decisions
• Stay up to date with industry trends, and standards
• Lead the Agile processes within the team
• Manage the roadmap for the team, playing a key role in prioritization
• Successfully see new projects to completion and launch new products while maintaining the existing code base.
• Facilitate discussions in the team and ensure a good design methodology is used on projects.
• Resolve conflict in the team when necessary
• Promote the achievements of the team
• Track and ensure team productivity is healthy using a metrics-based approach
• Track and ensure operational excellence in the team using a metrics-based approach
• Interview candidates for technical and organizational fit
• Drive innovation, vision, and strategy

The skills we need:

• A solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high-energy
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
• 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, Engineering, or any related area of study. In the event that you do not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma, equivalent experience in the related area is sufficient. 
• Demonstrable experience leading and managing a team of engineers on complex software projects.
• Experience developing software in an agile, quality-focussed environment.
• Experience with a broad range of related disciplines such as Development, Cloud Infrastructure, Site Reliability, Provisioning, Configuration Management, and Managed Systems.
• Good SQL experience in a high-load environment.
• Significant technical experience and a proven track record of architectural ownership and understanding.
• Experience with Open Source Operating Systems and technologies.
• Experience with Web Architectures (e.g. SOA, REST).
• Excellent understanding of theoretical Software Engineering fundamentals, including but not limited to distributed systems, highly scalable systems, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, and programming paradigms is advantageous.
• Experience with e-commerce-based applications is advantageous.
• Experience working with GCP/AWS and/or other cloud platforms.

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• 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: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• 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. 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: We work on Mac, but whether you prefer two monitors or one. You’ll work on the latest tech, with the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counseling, legal support, and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. 
• Tech stack (for days): Angular, Scala, Kotlin, 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). 

Like what you see? 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given a preference

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineering Manager to join our team in South Africa. 

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill 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. 

Who’s who in the tech space

The position reports to the Engineering Director (Logistics).

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Build and retain a high-caliber engineering team
• Build relationships through regular one-on-one conversations
• Remove roadblocks and interruptions to help the team perform
• Be involved with architectural and strategic planning with peers and senior developers
• Work with stakeholders to gather requirements, and manage expectations
• Support and develop the careers of members of the team
• Support and give direction to innovation in the team
• Present practical input for strategic technology decisions
• Stay up to date with industry trends, and standards
• Lead the Agile processes within the team
• Manage the roadmap for the team, playing a key role in prioritization
• Successfully see new projects to completion and launch new products while maintaining the existing code base.
• Facilitate discussions in the team and ensure a good design methodology is used on projects.
• Resolve conflict in the team when necessary
• Promote the achievements of the team
• Track and ensure team productivity is healthy using a metrics-based approach
• Track and ensure operational excellence in the team using a metrics-based approach
• Interview candidates for technical and organizational fit
• Drive innovation, vision, and strategy

The skills we need:

• A solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high-energy
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
• 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, Engineering, or any related area of study. In the event that you do not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma, equivalent experience in the related area is sufficient. 
• Demonstrable experience leading and managing a team of engineers on complex software projects.
• Experience developing software in an agile, quality-focussed environment.
• Experience with a broad range of related disciplines such as Development, Cloud Infrastructure, Site Reliability, Provisioning, Configuration Management, and Managed Systems.
• Good SQL experience in a high-load environment.
• Significant technical experience and a proven track record of architectural ownership and understanding.
• Experience with Open Source Operating Systems and technologies.
• Experience with Web Architectures (e.g. SOA, REST).
• Excellent understanding of theoretical Software Engineering fundamentals, including but not limited to distributed systems, highly scalable systems, algorithms, data structures, design patterns, and programming paradigms is advantageous.
• Experience with e-commerce-based applications is advantageous.
• Experience working with GCP/AWS and/or other cloud platforms.

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• 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: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• 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. 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: We work on Mac, but whether you prefer two monitors or one. You’ll work on the latest tech, with the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counseling, legal support, and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. 
• Tech stack (for days): Angular, Scala, Kotlin, 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). 

Like what you see? 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given a preference

At 2U, we are all in on purpose. We are motivated by our mission – to eliminate the back row in education – and connected by our shared passion to deliver world-class digital education at scale. As the parent company of edX, the world’s leading online learning platform, 2U powers more than 4,000 online higher education offerings – from free courses to full degrees. Together with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporate partners, we are helping to unlock human potential.

What We’re Looking For:

As a CRM Engineer III Software Developer at 2U, you will be a key technical leader, responsible for guiding a team of engineers and administrators in developing and maintaining the critical business systems that support our prestigious university partners. You will leverage your expertise to set the technical direction for an education-focused CRM, with a strong emphasis on Agentforce and Data Cloud implementations, driving value-driven outcomes for the business. For this particular opening, 2U Software Development is looking for a senior level CRM Engineer who will work on complex enterprise architecture, full-stack development, and team leadership. This individual will have exceptional verbal and written communication skills, a passion for changing higher ed, and a solution-minded, consultative approach to development.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To:

Leadership & hands-on Development:

• Lead a team of Salesforce engineers in the design, development, and maintenance of 2U’s core Business Systems and CRM infrastructure.
• Perform hands-on development and prototyping new innovative capabilities 
• Support and maintain production systems by triaging, diagnosing, and resolving platform defects and incidents to ensure system stability and reliability.

Collaboration & Governance: 

• Establish and enforce technical best practices for development, architecture, and quality assurance to ensure reliable, scalable, and secure systems. 
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into value-driven technical solutions and capabilities that align with core business services.
• Mentor and coach team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Solution Architecture & Design:

• Drive the conceptualization, design, and implementation of innovative solutions, with a particular focus on leveraging and integrating Agentforce and Data Cloud technologies.
• Oversee the design and building of transactional systems that process our university and learning management system data.
• Direct the design and building of systems that efficiently move data from various source systems such as Snowflake, Java based apps, and other clouds (AWS).

Things That Should Be In Your Background:

• 8+ years of progressive Software Development experience, with at least 2+ years in a technical leadership or lead role.
• Experience working with Service, Sales and Data Cloud having implemented Agentforce use cases with Call Center/IVR integrations with Salesforce.
• Expertise in Apex and Visualforce programming experience, and a strong focus on Salesforce Flow (Screen, Record-Triggered, and Auto launched Flows) for declarative automation.
• Proven experience developing modern user interfaces using Lightning Web Components (LWC) and/or Aura Components.
• Familiarity with Salesforce DX (SFDX) for source-driven development and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) DevSecOps tools such as Gearset or Copado.
• A propensity for building tools that automate and make processes reliable and scalable.
• Proven ability to establish and enforce technical best practices, perform rigorous code reviews, and mentor junior team members.
• Exceptional ability to communicate technical concepts to both engineering and non-technical business stakeholders.
• Background coding in a structured environment with Agile methodologies.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or other related field.

Benefits & Culture

Our global employee base is a diverse collection of innovators, dreamers, and doers working together to transform lives through higher education. We believe that every employee can advance our shared purpose, and that life at 2U should be fun and meaningful. If you’re excited by the opportunity to provide over 40 million learners and counting with access to world-class online higher education, then join us – and do work that makes a difference. #NoBackRow

We offer comprehensive benefits (unique per country) and excellent work/life balance.
Full-time, ZA benefits include: 

• 2 complimentary Getsmarter short courses per year
• Subsidised medical aid with Discovery Health Medical Scheme
• 4% 2U contribution towards Discovery Life Pension Fund and Group Risk Benefit
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Generous leave policy including time off to volunteer for non-profit organization, study leave, sports leave and a company-wide festive season break

2U Diversity and Inclusion Statement

At 2U, we are committed to building and sustaining a culture of belonging, respect, and inclusion. We are proud of the steps we’ve taken to bring together an employee base that embodies diverse walks of life, ideas, genders, ages, races, cultures, sexual orientations, abilities and other unique qualities. We strive to offer a workplace where every employee feels empowered by what makes us different, as well as by how we are alike. 

2U is committed to providing reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process. If you need assistance or accommodations, please reach out to us at: recruitingaccommodations@2u.com. 

About 2U 

For more than a decade, 2U has been the digital transformation partner of choice to great non-profit colleges and universities delivering high-quality online education at scale. As the parent company of edX, a leading global online learning platform, 2U provides over 45 million learners with access to world-class education in partnership with more than 230 colleges, universities, and corporations. Our people and technology are powering more than 4,000 digital education offerings — from free courses to full degrees — and helping unlock human potential. To learn more: visit 2U.com.

About edX

edX is the education movement for restless learners and a leading global online learning platform from 2U. Together with the majority of the world’s top-ranked universities and industry-leading companies, we bring our community of over 45 million learners world-class education to support them at every stage of their lives and careers, from free courses to full degrees. And we're not stopping there — we're relentlessly pursuing our vision of a world where every learner can access education to unlock their potential, without the barriers of cost or location. Learn more at edX.org.

Learn more at https://2u.com/careers/
#NoBackRow

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this position, and are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

2U is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against applicants or employees and ensures equal employment opportunity for all persons regardless of their race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, marital status, disability, citizenship, military or veterans’ status, or any other classifications protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. 2U’s equal opportunity policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, training, promotion, job benefits and pay. 

2U is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from South African citizens who are members of designated groups who may contribute to Employment Equity within the workplace and the further diversification of ideas. In this regard, the relevant laws and principles associated with Employment Equity will be considered when appointing potential candidates. We are required by law to verify your ability to work lawfully in South Africa. 2U requires that you submit a copy of either your identity document or your passport and any applicable work permit if you are a foreign national, along with an updated curriculum vitae.

About impact.com: 

impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal, Fanatics and Levi’s, visit www.impact.com.

At impact.com we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you!

Your Role at impact.com:

As a Mid-Level Android Developer at Impact.com, you will play a crucial role in the design, development, and maintenance of our Android application. You will work closely with cross-functional teams, our product manager, designer, and fellow developers, to create a high-quality, user-friendly apps that meet the needs of our customers. 

What You'll Do:

• Collaborate with our tech lead, product manager and designer to understand project requirements and translate them into technical specifications.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain our Android application so that it adheres to best practices and deliver an exceptional user experience.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code, following coding standards and guidelines.
• Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality and share knowledge with the development team.
• Debug and resolve issues and bugs identified by QA and end-users, providing timely solutions.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest Android development trends, tools, and technologies, and actively incorporate them into projects.
• Optimize application performance and ensure responsiveness across various devices and Android versions.
• Collaborate with backend developers to integrate APIs and ensure seamless data flow

What You Bring:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent
  work experience).
• 3+ years of professional experience in Android app development.
• Proficiency in Kotlin programming.
• Strong knowledge of Android SDK, Android Studio, and related development tools.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, third-party libraries, and web services integration.
• Familiarity with responsive UI/UX principles.
• Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git).
• Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently and in a team-oriented environment

Benefits and Perks: 

At impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

• Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We're committed to a positive work-life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.
• Health and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
• A Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of our total compensation, giving you a stake in the company's growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.
• Parental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.
• Technology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your internet expenses

impact.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

About Paystack

Paystack’s mission is to accelerate digital payments on the continent of Africa. Over 200,000 of some of the most renowned businesses in Nigeria, as well as a growing number of merchants in South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya use Paystack’s modern payments gateway. They include the likes of MTN, Burger King, UPS, AXA Mansard Insurance, FairMoney, PiggyVest, FilmHouse Cinemas, Smile Communications, Air Peace Airlines, Crocs, Under Armour, Richemont Lifestyle Group (RLG), and many others.

In just over 10 years, our growing team has introduced a steady cadence of innovation within the online payments landscape, such as automated recurring payments, the ability for customers to pay directly from their bank accounts, automated chargebacks, and much more. 

We’re obsessed about building the best place to work on the continent while accelerating digital commerce across Africa and we need your help!

About the role

As a senior full-stack engineer, you take responsibility for delivering and supporting robust back-end and front-end applications that exposes our data and functionality to internal and external users.

Applications handling financial information need to be able to handle large data sets in a performant manner, while being highly accurate and reliable.

You’ll work with a team of talented engineers to design and build systems that support some of South Africa’s best known brands.

What we expect of you:

• Architect and Develop: Design and implement robust solutions for our platform, ensuring scalability, efficiency, and reliability.
• Product Innovation: Design and development of technical solutions to deliver on our product vision.
• Technical Problem Solving: Tackle complex technical challenges, providing innovative solutions to enhance system performance and reliability.
• System Integration: Collaborate on the refinement of the platform’s architecture, focusing on optimization and seamless integration to other systems.
• Code Review and Testing: Review specifications and code submissions and conduct thorough testing to maintain code quality.
• System support: Collaborate with other teams, both inside and outside engineering, to assist merchants and customers where necessary.

What you are good at:

• You have extensive programming experience in at least one language such as Javascript, Typescript, Java, C++, C#, Python or another major language
• Working on large, distributed systems at scale
• Understanding and working with SQL databases
• Writing solid unit testing and integration tests
• You communicate clearly and are able to collaborate in a remote environment
• Taking ownership of work assigned to you
• You have a passion for building products to help African businesses

Technology stack:

Our technology stack includes the following:

• Typescript and Javascript
• Node.js
• Frameworks: Express.js, Sails.js and Nest.js
• Frontend frameworks: React, Angular and Vue
• Redis
• MySQL and MongoDB
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• AWS

Application Instructions - Read carefully!

1. To apply, click the "Apply for this job" button

2. Complete all the required questions

3. This role is only open to candidates based in Cape Town, South Africa

Questions? Please contact careers@paystack.com.

Our Company:

At impact.com we are passionate about our people, our technology, and are obsessed with customer success. Working together enables us to grow rapidly, win, and serve the largest brands in the world. We use cutting edge technology to solve real-world problems for our clients and continue to pull ahead of the pack as the leading SaaS platform for businesses to automate their partnerships and grow their revenue like never before. We have an entrepreneurial spirit and a culture where ambition and curiosity is rewarded. If you are looking to join a team where your opinion is valued, your contributions are noticed, and enjoy working with fun and talented people from all over the world, then this is the place for you!

impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform, is transforming the way businesses manage and optimize all types of partnerships—including traditional rewards affiliates, influencers, commerce content publishers, B2B, and more. The company’s powerful, purpose-built platform makes it easy for businesses to create, manage, and scale an ecosystem of partnerships with the brands and communities that customers trust to make purchases, get information, and entertain themselves at home, at work, or on the go. To learn more about how impact.com’s technology platform and partnerships marketplace is driving revenue growth for global enterprise brands such as Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oreal, Fanatics and Levi’s, visit www.impact.com.

Your Role at impact.com:

impact.com's Analytics Data Platform processes terabyte-scale data for one of the world's leading partnership SaaS platforms, covering the full lifecycle from ingestion to governed access.

We're looking for a technical people leader to own and grow the Data Platform Engineering team, while driving the architecture, reliability, and evolution of impact.com's Analytics Data Platform. This is a senior player-coach role: you'll combine hands-on technical leadership with direct people management, building a high-performing team, owning delivery, and shaping platform strategy. Expect to spend roughly 40% hands-on and 60% on leadership, people, and delivery, shifting as the team matures. You'll be accountable for both the team's output and its people, ensuring engineers are supported, challenged, and growing.

As Team Lead for Data Platform Engineering, you'll work across the full data ecosystem (ingestion, processing, storage, orchestration, access, and governance) using technologies like Scala, Python, Google Cloud Dataproc, BigQuery, and Airflow. You'll shape the operating model for the team, establish engineering standards, and drive platform strategy. This role is levelled at Senior/Staff Engineer on the engineering management track and reports to the Director of Advanced Analytics. The position is based in Cape Town, hybrid, with one day per week in office.

Data Platform Engineering is one of four sub-teams within the Data Analytics Group (DAG). DPE owns ingestion, infrastructure, orchestration, and platform services. Analytics Engineering owns the dbt transformation layer and semantic layer. Data Analytics owns reporting and insights. Data Product Management owns product roadmaps and governance processes. You'll partner closely with all three, but won't own dbt models, reporting, or product prioritisation directly.

Our ideal candidate combines distributed systems expertise with proven people leadership. Someone who can make architecture decisions, run a team, and translate platform trade-offs into business language. This role is for someone who wants to build both a platform and a team, not just maintain what exists.

What you'll inherit:

The platform has strong foundations: Scala/Spark pipelines processing TB-scale data, 37+ Fivetran connectors, Airflow on Astronomer for orchestration, a mature dbt-based transformation layer, and BigQuery as the core analytical warehouse. Databricks is part of the current stack but is being transitioned off in favour of Dataproc and BigQuery-native patterns. What's greenfield: governance frameworks, data contracts, SLOs/SLAs, observability, cost management, and data quality monitoring. You'll build the team that delivers on these opportunities.

What you'll do:

• Build and run a team of data platform engineers: set direction, remove blockers, give honest feedback, and make sure people are growing in their careers.
• Create an environment where engineers do their best work: high trust, high standards, low friction.
• Turn platform strategy into a delivery plan the team can actually execute: sequence the work, balance new builds against keeping the lights on, and make the trade-offs visible.
• Own capacity and priorities across the team. Keep cross-team dependencies from becoming bottlenecks.
• Lead platform architecture decisions, design reviews, and cross-org technical coordination, defining and promoting architectural patterns, standards, and guidelines.
• Design and implement scalable pipelines using Scala, Python, and distributed frameworks (Spark on Dataproc) processing TB-scale data. Lead the migration off Databricks onto Dataproc and BigQuery-native patterns.
• Establish platform reliability practices: define SLOs/SLAs, build incident management and response processes, and drive systemic improvements across pipeline and infrastructure operations.
• Design and maintain core platform services (Dataproc clusters, BigQuery datasets, Cloud Storage) and optimise platform performance and cost at scale.
• Build and operationalise data governance, security, and compliance capabilities, including data contracts, access controls, and audit logging. Many of these practices are greenfield; you will be building them from scratch.
• Define and evolve team rituals, operating cadences, and engineering standards: code review norms, documentation practices, on-call fairness, and knowledge sharing.
• Represent the team to senior leadership and act as the single point of accountability for the team's commitments to cross-functional partners (analytics engineering, data analytics, product, finance).
• Own data source integrations and data quality across the platform, including third-party connectors (e.g. Fivetran), custom Scala/Spark ingestion pipelines, dbt orchestration via Airflow and Astronomer Cosmos, and quality monitoring and remediation practices.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 7+ years of experience in data platform engineering, data engineering, or distributed systems, including 2+ years leading engineering teams
• Strong programming skills in Scala and Python, including functional Scala patterns (cats-effect / Typelevel ecosystem), testing, code review, and production-grade engineering practices
• Deep hands-on experience with distributed computing frameworks: Apache Spark (Dataproc) and large-scale data processing. Databricks experience is useful for leading the migration off it
• Expert-level knowledge of cloud-native data platforms and services. Our stack runs on Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, Dataproc, Cloud Storage), but equivalent depth on AWS or Azure is equally valued
• Advanced SQL skills including complex query optimisation, partitioning strategies, and performance tuning
• Experience building and scaling engineering teams, not just managing established ones: hiring, running interview loops, onboarding, and growing engineers from junior to senior
• Experience leading cross-team architecture initiatives and establishing platform-wide standards
• Experience with orchestration tools (Airflow, Astronomer, and Astronomer Cosmos for dbt orchestration) and CI/CD pipeline design
• Familiarity with legacy CI/CD tooling (e.g. Jenkins), particularly in the context of pipeline migration and modernisation
• Strong understanding of data governance, security best practices, and compliance requirements
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automated deployment practices
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical trade-offs for non-technical stakeholders and represent the team to senior leadership
• Strong people management skills: coaching, mentorship, performance management, and career development
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, observability, and on-call operations for production data systems

Nice to Have:

• Experience in the digital marketing technology or partnership/affiliate industry
• General experience with Google Cloud Platform services beyond the core required stack (e.g. Pub/Sub, BigTable, Cloud Functions); familiarity with Dataflow is a plus but not a current platform requirement (it is under future evaluation)
• Familiarity with streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka and stream processing frameworks
• Experience standing up data quality frameworks and monitoring practices from scratch
• Experience with FinOps or cloud cost management at scale
• Experience migrating off legacy platforms (e.g. Databricks, on-prem Hadoop) to cloud-native alternatives
• Experience with organisational design, team scaling, or building engineering teams from scratch
• Awareness of AI agent architectures and how they connect to data platforms (e.g. MCP, tool-use patterns)
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Benefits:

• Hybrid, Casual work environment
• Responsible PTO policy
• Take the time off that you need. We are truly committed to a positive work-life balance, recognising that it is important to be happy and fulfilled in both

• Training & Development
• Learning the advanced partnership automation products
• Medical Aid and Provident Fund 
• Group schemes with Discovery & Bonitas for medical aid
• Group scheme for provident fund
• Restricted Stock Units
• 3-year vesting schedule pending Board approval
• Internet Allowance
• Fitness club fee reimbursementsTechnology stipend 
• Primary Caregiver Leave
• Mental  Health and Wellness Benefit - Including 12 Therapy/Coaching sessions + Dependent coverage 

impact.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

As a Senior Software Engineer - GoLang (Supply Chain) at Bash you’ll have a far-reaching impact on the commerce experience for both our customers and store staff. You’ll work in a dynamic cross-functional team closely aligned around the customer journey, with the opportunity to work on a wide variety of projects and technologies.

WHAT SUPPLY CHAIN DOES:

The Supply Chain division is the beating heart of every ecommerce business. 

• Orchestrating the order through the entire lifecycle
• Pick and Pack solutions for warehouses and hubs
• Logistics systems (including our own courier BashDelivery)
• Managing customer returns.
• And much much more

WHO YOU ARE:

• Collaboration with the team as part of an Agile development process.
• Manage your JIRA tasks, removing ambiguity from your tickets to streamline development 
• Assist your team on operational tasks related to the platform.
• Build relationships with developers, product managers and other colleagues
• Influence the team to build resilient, maintainable solutions.
• Participate in the on-call rotation for for critical system alerts

WHAT YOU HAVE:

• 5+ years of relevant work experience
• BSc Computer Science or equivalent is encouraged (strong work experience can fill this gap)
• 5+ years experience writing backend code and/or doing some frontend work on web and/or mobile applications
  • We primarily use Golang for our backend services, and Retool for our frontend applications
• In-depth knowledge of databases, data structures, algorithms and an interest in distributed systems
• Experience in a scripting language
• Great problem-solving skills
• A passion for observability and monitoring of the services you build
• Experience owning the deployment process of your services and applications in Amazon Web Services and Kubernetes
• Ability to work effectively across teams to deliver results, with good verbal and written communication skills

We ask a few optional demographic questions to monitor fairness in hiring and comply with South Africa’s Employment Equity requirements. Your responses are confidential - stored separately from your application and never shown to hiring panels. We review the data only in aggregate to strengthen our sourcing so pipelines are diverse and all candidates receive equitable support. You can skip any question.

About impact.com

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral)—unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Your Role at impact.com:

Reporting to the Manager of Customer Operations Systems, the Internal Systems Engineer (Applied AI) is a specialized, high-impact builder role dedicated to supercharging our Customer Operations teams (Support, Success, Onboarding, Implementation).

This is a highly practical, application-focused engineering position instrumental to our AI transformation. You will spend your time across three types of work:

1. Building AI-powered tools and agents. You will integrate applied AI into our workflows using modern frameworks. You will consult with business stakeholders to help explain the art of the possible, guide them in defining logic and prompts, and own building and maintaining agentic workflows and tools. Example projects include building an AI-powered QA and training tool with a RAG component for new support agents, architecting agentic workflows for our onboarding team, or building a FreshDesk integration that suggests draft responses to tickets.
2. Building and maintaining a shared agent platform. This is what makes AI scale beyond our team. You will build and maintain the templates, approved patterns, and deployment infrastructure that enable people across Customer Operations to build their own agents without needing to figure out hosting, monitoring, or API connectivity themselves. When a Technical Services lead wants to build an agent that automates "pixel not firing" investigations, they should be able to do it on your platform without writing a deployment script. You own making self-serve actually work.
3. Building robust internal software, integrations, and automations - such as developing custom FreshDesk widgets to support our agents. You will own the full lifecycle of these apps: building, hosting, monitoring, maintaining, and eventually retiring them when they're no longer needed.

Many job descriptions define themselves as "critical" or "pivotal." This role genuinely is. impact.com has thousands of clients, millions of partners, endless data, and complex multi-system processes. As a business, we are ensuring we are on the cutting edge - aggressively automating and scaling up what we do with AI. This role owns a substantial portion of that transformation for a critical part of our business.

A note on how you'll work with others: when someone across Customer Operations builds a pilot that proves value, you don't take it over. You partner with them to elevate it - bringing engineering rigor, production infrastructure, and scale while they maintain creative control and ongoing input. When someone has a great idea but isn't technical enough to build it themselves, your first instinct is to build it with them, growing their skills in the process. You're an accelerator, not a bottleneck.

This role is for the person who embodies the overlap of curiosity, process-obsession, and action orientation. It is for the passionate tinkerer who also gets carried away exploring custom Salesforce structures and data flows. It is for the person who has been building agentic workflows to manage their household tasks in their free time because they can't stop playing with the new tools AI offers.

If you are that person - if you are a highly motivated, thoughtful builder - and you want to leverage applied AI on a daily basis, this is the role for you.

What You'll Do:

• Software Development Foundation: Proven experience building, hosting, and maintaining applications and tools. You are comfortable writing clean, functional code (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, etc.) to solve operational problems. You understand what it means to keep something running in production, not just get it working once.
• API & Integration Expertise: Deep experience working with REST APIs. You can easily build connectors between distinct SaaS platforms to automate data flows and trigger actions.
• Applied AI Engineering: Hands-on experience with LLM orchestration frameworks (like LangChain or LangGraph). You understand MCPs, RAG pipelines, agentic workflows, DAG vs linear flows, engineering HITL systems, and have built real-world systems using these rails.
• AI Evaluation & Quality: Experience setting up and running evals for LLM outputs. You know how to build systems that grade, evaluate, and test AI responses for accuracy and safety (e.g., LLM-as-a-judge). You understand CI/CD for AI systems and can build regression testing pipelines.
• Platform Thinking: You don't just build one-off tools - you think about how to make your work reusable. You can design templates, abstractions, and deployment patterns that other people (including non-engineers) can use to build on top of what you've created.
• Systems Thinking & Process Orientation: You don't write code in a vacuum; you map out complex operational workflows before you start building. You have a knack for seeing how different tools, teams, and data flows interact, ensuring your solutions address the actual problem without creating downstream issues.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Ability to work closely with non-technical business stakeholders. You can take a process flow and prompt designs from a business leader and turn them into a functioning, hosted application. Equally important: you can teach - walking a non-technical person through building their first agent is as valuable as building it yourself.
• Autonomous Builder: You are a self-starter who thrives in an agile environment. You don't need excessive hand-holding to figure out how to host a script or deploy a small internal app.
• Relentless Tinkerer: You were the first person in your current role to start building agents. You have had personal subscriptions to Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.

What You Bring:

• Experience building custom apps or integrations specifically for Freshdesk (or similar enterprise ticketing systems like Zendesk/Jira).
• Background working in or building tools for Customer Support, Customer Success, or Onboarding teams.
• Experience integrating with knowledge base platforms (like Gitbook or similar documentation sites).
• Proven experience taking automation projects from concept to deployment within a large, complex organization.
• Experience building internal platforms or developer tools that other teams use to self-serve.
• Experience with monitoring and observability for AI systems in production.

Benefits and Perks:

At impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

• Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We're committed to a positive work-life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.
• Health and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
• A Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of our total compensation, giving you a stake in the company's growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.
• Parental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.
• Technology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your internet expenses

impact.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

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About impact.com

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral)—unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Your Role at impact.com:

As a Technical Services Engineer III, you will build a deep understanding of impact.com’s technology and platform capabilities, supporting clients throughout the full lifecycle, from initial integration through post-launch optimization and ongoing support. You will design, implement, and support technical solutions across our SaaS platform, helping ensure reliability, scalability, and long-term success.

Working closely with Onboarding, Client Success, Product, Engineering, and other internal teams, you will partner directly with client business and technical stakeholders to guide integrations, troubleshoot complex technical issues, and provide ongoing guidance on best practices. In this role, you will sit at the center of the technical challenges impacting our client base, using your expertise to diagnose issues, drive resolutions, and continuously improve the client experience after go-live.

What You'll Do:

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of impact.com’s products, platform capabilities, and enhancements, while staying current with relevant industry trends.
• Support the design, implementation, and ongoing management of technical integrations for both new and existing clients across the impact.com platform, including troubleshooting, optimization, and maintenance.
• Partner closely with Onboarding, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Solutions, and other internal teams to deliver a seamless onboarding experience and strong post-launch support.
• Take end-to-end ownership of client technical issues, from initial investigation and root cause analysis through resolution and clear, timely communication.
• Manage incoming technical requests through ticketing systems, prioritizing effectively in a fast-paced environment.
• Identify emerging or recurring issues and communicate trends, risks, and insights to management and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of technical documentation, integration guides, training materials, and help content for both clients and internal teams.
• Identify, scope, and help develop internal tools or reports that improve troubleshooting workflows or enable other teams across the organization.

What You Bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Science, Mathematics, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in a tech-focused role at a digital marketing or technology-driven company, preferably in a customer-facing capacity.
• Strong understanding of the design, implementation, and support of client solutions on SaaS platforms.
• Experience with web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, REST APIs, FTP, and related tools.
• Ability to analyze logs and data to troubleshoot issues, including writing SQL queries when applicable.
• Familiarity with affiliate marketing or the broader digital marketing ecosystem is a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to think critically and navigate complex technical challenges.
• Clear, confident verbal and written communication skills in English, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences using a calm, constructive, and customer-centric approach.
• A self-starter mindset with curiosity and a desire to continuously learn, improve processes, and step outside of your comfort zone.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize effectively in a dynamic environment.

Benefits and Perks:

At impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

• Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We're committed to a positive work-life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.
• Health and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
• A Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of our total compensation, giving you a stake in the company's growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.
• Parental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.
• Technology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your internet expenses

impact.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

#LI-hybrid_CapeTown

Senior Software Engineer

Cape Town 

Hybrid working (2 days in the office) 

Based on the Cape Town beachfront – a breathtaking expanse of white sand and surf, against the backdrop of the world-famous Table Mountain – our Cape Town office is an integral part of LiveScore Group.

With strong collective expertise, the team in Cape Town pushes the boundaries of gaming design and development, always aiming to provide advanced solutions to complex operational challenges by delivering in-house gaming software of the highest quality to the LiveScore Group, every time.

At LiveScore Group, we’re the proud home of three of the most exciting brands in the sports and gaming world: LiveScore, LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet. This creates a fully owned and operated ecosystem that converges the two worlds of sports media and sports betting. We’re proud of the high ratings for our commitment to excellence and fuelling our fans' passion for sport, which drives us to the top.

We don’t just lead; we innovate. Our cutting-edge products and immersive experiences set the standard, but it’s our people who truly make the difference. Every day, our team embodies our values: adaptability, teamwork, a fan-driven approach, and an ever-curious mindset that fuels our ambition.

As we scale and continue to create a culture that allows all employees to thrive, we know we need the most talented people with diverse backgrounds, perspectives and skills. If you’re good at what you do, come and join us. The more inclusive we are, the more amazing experiences we can create for our users.

 We know that job descriptions can sometimes seem daunting, and you might not feel you tick every box. But, if you’re passionate about the role and have relevant experience, we want to hear from you!

The Role 

The Senior Software Engineer plays a critical role in designing, developing, and delivering high-quality software solutions that align with LiveScore Group's strategic goals. This role directly contributes to business success by driving technical excellence, improving system performance, and mentoring engineering colleagues to build a high-performing engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities 

• Design, develop, and maintain high-quality, scalable backend services using Java and Spring Frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, AMQP, Spring Security).
• Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex features or systems, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and business goals.
• Provide technical mentorship and promote best practices in coding, testing, and design, including conducting code reviews to ensure quality and secure coding.
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies (stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) using JIRA to manage tasks and track progress.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product and design, to translate business requirements into technical solutions and ensure timely delivery.
• Utilize Git (Github) for version control and effective collaboration through pull requests and branching strategies.
• Design and optimize relational database schemas, including writing efficient SQL queries and managing data migrations.
• Identify opportunities to improve system performance, developer productivity, and code quality.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and propose innovative solutions to technical challenges, contributing to internal knowledge sharing and tooling improvements.
• Support deployment and monitoring of applications in cloud or on-prem environments, ensuring reliability and performance.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Experience in Java, with experience in object-oriented design and enterprise-level application development.
• Extensive experience with Spring Frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Cloud, AMQP, Spring Security).
• Experience in using IntelliJ IDEA for efficient development, debugging, and refactoring.
• Ability to design and maintain normalized database schemas and write efficient SQL queries.
• Familiarity with AI tools to optimize workload and efficiently prompt AI tools for desired output.
• Analytical thinking and a solution-oriented mindset.
• A versatile individual with an appetite to learn and take on challenges.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to support team objectives.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with front-end frameworks such as VUE and Angular.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker), and cloud platforms (GCP).
• Write efficient SQL queries and manage data migrations, backups, and performance tuning

Our Tech Stack

• Backend: Java, Spring Framework
• Frontend: VueJS, Angular
• Database: MySQL, Mongo
• Cloud: GCP
• Messaging: Kafka, RabbitMQ
• AI: Copilot, AgentSpace
• Version Control: Github
• IDE: Intellij Ultimate
• Testing: Cypress, Postman

What can we offer? 

• Discovery Medical aid 
• 21 days annual leave 
• Discretionary Company Performance bonus 
• Thursday drinks in the office and socials

Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer (Python) to join our team. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us!

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• 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.

Who’s who in the tech space

This position reports to the respective team's manager.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

As a Software Engineer, you will be someone whose expertise directly translates into developing 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 if needed.

• 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.

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
• Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
• Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing

Qualifications & Experience:

• 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

Experience in the following will be advantageous:

• 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

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• 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).

Like what you see?

If you meet the above, you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.

Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer (Search) to join our team. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us!

Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!

• 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.

Who’s who in the tech space

This position reports to the respective team's manager.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

As a Software Engineer, you will be someone whose expertise directly translates into developing 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 if needed.

The role is focused on maintaining our search stack. We are currently in the process of transitioning from Elasticsearch to Vertex AI Search, so experience with any of those would be a bonus, but not a necessity. Experience with any kind of search technology (Solr, Algolia) is relevant. Takealot runs mostly on Python, but experience in any of the mainstream backend languages (Python, Java or Go) is a plus.

• 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.

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
• Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
• Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing

Qualifications & Experience:

• 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
• Experience with search technologies (Elasticsearch, Vertex AI Search, Solr, Algolia, or any other major third party provider)
• 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

Experience in the following will be advantageous:

• 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

Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

• 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).

Like what you see?

If you meet the above, you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.

Product Manager — Connect

We're looking for a Product Manager to take a lead on ClearScore's Universal API platform. This is the technical foundation that will power how we share our data, capabilities and intelligence beyond our consumer apps. You’ll enable B2B distribution, agentic workflows in the credit space and entirely new ways for partners to integrate with ClearScore.

Working alongside your Head of Product and closely with Platform and Data engineering, you'll own the roadmap and execution of a unified API gateway serving both internal teams and external partners. You'll work closely with the Upstream product team, who own the commercial proposition and externalisation of ClearScore's capabilities, ensuring the platform they need is robust, scalable and well-governed. From defining the technical foundations to shipping a best-in-class developer experience, you'll take this from early planning through to delivery.

What you will be doing:

• Ship and run a unified API Gateway - Deliver a scalable, durable and extensible API gateway for the ClearScore group to build on for the next 10 years.
• Define API Standards - Set standards for developing internal and external APIs for the ClearScore group as a whole.
• Onboard the ClearScore group - Bring all internal users on the journey and onboard the group onto our new API stack.
• Enable commercial opportunities - Work closely with the Upstream product team and commercial stakeholders to ensure the API platform supports new partnership and distribution models.
• Own our external developer experience - Take the lead on shipping a world class developer experience via our developer portal, documentation and sandboxes.

Skills we'd love you to have

• Experience as a Product Manager working with API platforms, developer tools or previous experience as a Software Engineer in these domains.
• Strong analytical and technical skills - able to dig into complex data, deeply understand technical concepts and contribute to engineering decisions on API standards.
• Experience shaping discovery with non-technical partners. Interviews, user research, requirements gathering.
• Experience setting direction, objectives and a roadmap for your team.
• Excellent communication skills, particularly when aligning cross-functional teams.
• Confident decision-maker who can prioritise, iterate and make progress in incomplete information environments.
• Experience in regulated or financial services is helpful but not necessarily required.

Why ClearScore?

ClearScore is on a mission to make the world of personal finance clearer, calmer, and easier to understand. It starts with the free credit score and report but we're about to do so much more.

We want to take the complex financial decisions that people make in their lives and make them easier. We hold one of the biggest FinTech user bases in the world of over 22 million users but run ourselves like little start-ups. You're encouraged to challenge the status quo and fight for the better.

Since our launch in July 2015 in the UK we have expanded our product into South Africa in 2017, and Australia in 2020 and Canada in 2022. Our company culture is a fundamental part of all we have achieved. We believe in hiring smart, driven, passionate and diverse people who are keen on having a real impact in our organization.

We trust you to manage your own time, so we offer flexible work and no fixed desk hours. We don't micromanage and believe in measuring outcomes rather than effort. We have an inclusive culture where all, regardless of seniority, are encouraged to contribute with their ideas, look after their wellbeing and actively seek opportunities for career growth.

We also have a super-fast and friendly interview process, which is more like having a friendly discussion than being put under a microscope or pressure. We want to know the real you and if you'd be a great fit for us. 

Benefits:

• Holidays – 20 paid holidays (plus public holidays) and a “duvet day” on your birthday
• Pension Fund contribution over and above salary
• Private Medical Insurance
• Eye Tests
• Medial Aid Benefit - over and above salary
• Continued investment into learning and development 
• Flexible work hours and the ability to work from home
• Flexible, generous, and personalised maternity and paternity plans
• Monthly team events and office days out that we get to choose, and company events at the end of each quarter and retro
• Employee Assistance Program
• ClearScore Support Hub
• Perkbox

Equal Opportunities

ClearScore is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. As an equal opportunity employer, we are able to make reasonable adjustments to accommodate individuals with disabilities during the recruitment and selection process. If you require accommodation, please inform us in advance, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

• Levels 1-5: Minimum 2 days per week in-office
• Level 6 and above: Minimum 3 days per week in-office

• Flexibility to manage your work and life
• Dedicated in-office days for team building and collaborative projects
•  Office facilities (with plants!) designed for productive interactions
• Clear expectations and support for maintaining our hybrid schedule

About impact.com

impact.com is the world’s leading commerce partnership marketing platform, transforming the way businesses grow by enabling them to discover, manage, and scale partnerships across the entire customer journey. From affiliates and influencers to content publishers, brand ambassadors, and customer advocates, impact.com empowers brands to drive trusted, performance-based growth through authentic relationships. Its award-winning products—Performance (affiliate), Creator (influencer), and Advocate (customer referral)—unify every type of partner into one integrated platform. As consumers increasingly rely on recommendations from people and communities they trust, impact.com helps brands show up where it matters most. Today, over 5,000 global brands, including Walmart, Uber, Shopify, Lenovo, L’Oréal, and Fanatics, rely on impact.com to power more than 225,000 partnerships that deliver measurable business results.

Your Role at impact.com:

The QA Lead is responsible for defining, implementing, and overseeing quality assurance strategies to ensure the delivery of high-quality software products for the group. This role bridges technical QA execution and leadership, guiding QA engineers while collaborating closely with development, product, and DevOps teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle

What You'll Do:

As a QA Lead for the platform group, you will lead a critical function focused on both the technical infrastructure and the human element of Quality Assurance. Your responsibilities will include:

1. Quality Strategy & Process

• Define, track, and report on key quality metrics (e.g., defect rates, test coverage, automation stability) to drive continuous improvement.
• Define and maintain QA standards, methodologies, and best practices
• Establish test strategies for functional, regression, integration, performance, and security testing
• Ensure quality gates are integrated into CI/CD pipelines
• Drive continuous improvement of QA processes and tools
  
  
2. Leadership & Team Management
• Lead, mentor, and support QA engineers (manual and automation), fostering their professional growth and skill development.
• Plan QA resource allocation and testing schedules
• Develop onboarding materials and host internal training sessions to ensure team members have the knowledge and skills to succeed.
• Conduct reviews, provide feedback, and support skill development
• Promote a culture of quality ownership across teams within the group
  
  
3. Test Planning & Execution
• Own test plans, test cases, and test data strategy
• Oversee test execution and defect management lifecycle
• Ensure adequate test coverage and risk-based testing
• Validate acceptance criteria and release readiness
• Ensuring coverage for smoke testing post release.
  
  
4. Automation & Tooling
• Drive test automation strategy and framework selection
• Ensure effective use of automation tools and test management systems
• Collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD integration
• Monitor test execution metrics and reporting
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and advancements in test automation.
• Explore and implement AI/ML-driven testing techniques to enhance test coverage and efficiency.
  
  
5. Stakeholder Collaboration
• Partner with Product Managers to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria
• Work closely with Engineering Leads to resolve quality risks
• Communicate quality status, risks, and metrics to stakeholders
• Support release planning and go/no-go decisions
• Partner with QA platform & enablement to evaluate & implement next gen tools & technologies for the QA function.

What You Bring:

Required Qualifications

1. 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and/or Software Development Engineering in Test (SDET) roles, with a strong background in test automation and platform development.
2. Leadership experience, ideally leading QA teams for more than a year.
3. Deep expertise in various testing methodologies, tools, and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, TestRail, CI/CD integration, API testing).
4. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills, with the ability to influence and align stakeholders across different teams.
5. A proactive and innovative mindset, always seeking ways to improve quality, efficiency, and developer experience.

Preferred Qualifications

1. Experience leading test framework migrations. 
2. Familiarity with OWASP guidelines and security testing tools preferred.

Benefits and Perks:

At impact.com, we believe that when you’re happy and fulfilled, you do your best work. That’s why we’ve built a benefits package that supports your well-being, growth, and work-life balance.

• Flexible Working: Our Responsible PTO policy means you can take the time off you need to rest and recharge. We're committed to a positive work-life balance and provide a flexible environment that allows you to be happy and fulfilled in both your career and your personal life.
• Health and Wellness: Your well-being is a priority. Our mental health and wellness benefit includes up to 12 fully covered therapy/coaching sessions per year, with additional dependent coverage. We also offer a monthly gym reimbursement policy to support your physical health.
• A Stake in Our Growth: We offer Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) as part of our total compensation, giving you a stake in the company's growth with a 3-year vesting schedule, pending Board approval.
• Investing in Your Growth: We’re committed to your continuous learning. Take advantage of our free Coursera subscription and our PXA courses.
• Parental Support: We offer a generous parental leave policy, 26 weeks of fully paid leave for the primary caregiver and 13 weeks fully paid leave for the secondary caregiver.
• Technology Financial Support: We provide a technology stipend to help you set up your home office and a monthly allowance to cover your internet expenses

impact.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All employees and applicants for employment shall be given fair treatment and equal employment opportunity regardless of their race, ethnicity or ancestry, color or caste, religion or belief, age, sex (including gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy/maternity), national origin, weight, neurodivergence, disability, marital and civil partnership status, caregiving status, veteran status, genetic information, political affiliation, or other prohibited non-merit factors.

Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack

Experience: 4+ years

Where the job is based:  Stellenbosch, South Africa

This role demands flexibility to work during UK hours

Who we are:

Dive into a world where technology meets innovation. At Kerv South Africa, we're not just another tech company. We’re the problem solvers, the magicians who transform complex challenges into seamless digital experiences. Utilising a powerful blend of Power Platform, DevSecOps, Data experiences, and Software Engineering, we create business solutions that truly resonate with our clients while driving extreme value!

With our roots planted in Birmingham and branches spreading across the globe from London to Bangalore, we're a proud member of the Kerv Group - a dynamic £112m revenue technology consultancy leader with a dedicated team of over 700 professionals, partnering with 800+ sector leaders.

People come first always.  We are incredibly proud of our unparalleled work culture. Not just words on paper, we wear our "Great Place to Work" certifications from the UK and India like badges of honour. Immerse yourself in an ocean of opportunities in an atmosphere that celebrates collaboration. Sharpen your prowess with a global multi-discipline team and be guided by the industry's most forward-thinking architects.

Primary Responsibility:

• Develop and maintain scalable, full-stack web applications using Next.js (frontend) and Node.js (backend)
• Build rich, user-centric interfaces that bring complex business processes to life through clean and responsive UI components
• Create RESTful using Node.js and TypeORM, with strong data modelling and performance in mind
• Write modular, maintainable code with comprehensive unit and integration tests, following TDD, using frameworks like Jest and Supertest
• Design and manage infrastructure components using Docker Compose, Terraform and deploy to AWS services (EC2, ECS, RDS, S3, etc.)
• Translate UI/UX wireframes into functional front-end code with high attention to performance and accessibility
• Produce clear and concise technical documentation using DDD
• Collaborate with Engineers, Product, DevOps, and QA to ensure seamless end-to-end delivery
• Participate in code reviews, trunk-based development, continuous integration, and agile development practices

Essential Skills:  

• Strong experience with OO, enterprise integration, microservice and serverless architecture
• Strong experience with js or React.js, including SSR/ISR concepts
• Proficiency in js, Express.js/Fastify, and TypeORM or equivalent ORM tools
• Solid understanding of TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3
• Experience working with Docker Compose for local development and containerized deployment
• Comfortable using AWS services like EC2, ECS, RDS, and S3
• Strong knowledge of RESTful API design, error handling, and security best practices
• Experience with unit and integration testing using tools like Jest, Mocha, or Supertest
• Proficient using as Git, and CI/CD pipelines

Desirable Skills:  

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL, MariaDB, GraphQL, or MongoDB
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, Biceps)
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum development practices
• Prior experience in building isomorphic/universal React applications
• Experience with mobile-first design or progressive web apps (PWAs)

We’re also looking for people that fit how we work, which is something like; 

• Excellent English speaking and written communication
• Ability to identify and pick up new technologies and operating systems quickly
• Ability to work effectively with remote teams in different time zones
• Ability to work flexibly to deliver on-time to tight timescales

What we can do for you:

We’re a transparent, honest and fiercely equal employer that believes completely in providing the best possible work experience for our employees:  

Real Flexibility – we’re a family first organisation, and if the work gets done, you can work when and wherever you want. A healthy approach for most of our teams seems to be splitting three ways between home, customer sites and the office. 

Awesome Environment – all of our employees will tell you that we foster an easy going environment, are experts at what we do and care deeply about what we work on, and the company was started specifically to find a way for people to take more enjoyment from their work. 

Interesting Work – these days most of our customers are household names and many of our projects have an important impact on the world around us. The kind of things we do regularly include working with not-for-profits to transform how they leverage technology, working with public bodies to shape digital services and working with top tier private entities to bring genuinely new and meaningful products and services to market. 

Recognition & Growth – Recognized as a 'Great Place to Work' in both the UK and India, our commitment to excellence goes beyond our products and services. Our culture is a testament to the dedicated technologists who work tirelessly to drive our vision forward. Being a part of Kerv Digital means embracing a culture of innovation, collaboration, and mutual respect. Our teams in the UK and India thrive in an atmosphere that promotes continuous learning and growth.

Join us at Kerv Digital, where we don’t just build ground breaking technology - we build future.

Don’t take our word for it though, check out our impartial Glass Door reviews

More on equality:

At Kerv, we’re building something special and we’re building it to last. We want everybody to feel valued, included and love working together. With an uncompromising pursuit of amazing employee experience, we always strive to do the right thing. We believe and will relentlessly promote and support the power of diversity, equality and belonging, through collaboration and creating exceptional solutions together.

Takealot Fulfilment Solutions (TFS), a division of Takealot Online (RF) (Pty) Ltd, is looking for a highly talented Project Engineer to join our team in Cape Town

Join Our Mission at Takealot Fulfilment Solutions | We Are TFS

Revolutionising e-commerce logistics in South Africa with cutting-edge technology and operational excellence. We deliver 30+ million orders annually, empowering businesses and driving economic growth.

Who We're Looking For:

Innovative, ambitious individuals ready to shape the future of e-commerce logistics. At TFS, "Uniquely You" meets "Powerfully Us", where your individuality strengthens our collective mission.

At TFS, your growth is our growth. You'll be joining a team powered by Takealot Group's core values. 

This position reports to the : Head of Logistics Services

To drive operational excellence and strategic growth within the TFS courier and TFS On-demand service divisions by implementing innovative projects that expand service offerings, optimize operational efficiency, and enhance client experience. This role serves as a key catalyst for analyzing data trends, leading continuous improvement initiatives, facilitating seamless client onboarding, and coordinating cross-functional collaboration to maximize TFS network performance and market expansion.

Your responsibilities can include:

• Project Implementation: Lead and execute strategic projects within the TFS courier and TFS On-demand space to enhance service capabilities and market reach
• Service Expansion: Identify, develop, and implement new service offerings to meet evolving market demands and client requirements
• Data Analysis & Insights: Analyze operational and performance data trends to identify opportunities for optimization, cost reduction, and service enhancement
• Continuous Improvement: Initiate and implement improvement projects across TFS operations to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and improve service quality
• Client Onboarding: Manage and streamline the onboarding process for new clients, ensuring smooth integration and optimal service delivery
• Operational Collaboration: Work closely with operations teams to identify areas of improvement, implement solutions, and ensure operational excellence
• Stakeholder Management: Maintain clear communication channels and manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders throughout project lifecycles
• Process Standardization: Investigate, establish, and implement standardized resources and procedures across the TFS network
• Cross-functional Optimization: Collaborate with various departments to optimize delivery lead-times, logistics costs, and overall operational efficiency
• Compliance & Standards: Support the development and improvement of health and safety plans, programs, and procedures within TFS operations

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Logistics, Supply Chain Management
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in logistics, supply chain, courier services, or on-demand delivery operations
• 2+ years of hands-on project management experience with demonstrated success in implementing operational improvements
• Previous experience in courier, e-commerce fulfillment, or last-mile delivery operations highly preferred
• Experience working with data analytics tools and interpreting operational KPIs and metrics
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Project) with advanced Excel skills for data analysis
• Basic understanding of logistics management systems
• Knowledge of process mapping and workflow optimization tools
• Experience working in fast-paced, high-volume operational environments
• Background in continuous improvement methodologies
• Previous exposure to multi-stakeholder project environments
• Experience with cost analysis and budget management for operational projects
• Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and managing complex initiatives
• Previous experience managing external vendor or client relationships