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Guide and support development teams on infrastructure, security, and automation best practices.
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Act as a trusted enabler - removing blockers and accelerating delivery through smart tooling and process improvements.
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Contribute to architecture decisions, particularly around cloud-native and serverless workloads.
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Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using TeamCity and related tooling.
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Automate repetitive processes across build, test, and deployment workflows.
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Drive the team's shift toward infrastructure-as-code and self-service automation.
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Manage and optimise cloud infrastructure on AWS, including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and ECS.
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Support the migration of workloads toward containerisation using Docker and ECS.
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Maintain high availability, performance, and cost-efficiency across all environments.
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Own environment provisioning and configuration management for both Linux and Windows workloads.
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Embed security practices into the software delivery lifecycle (DevSecOps).
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Monitor infrastructure for vulnerabilities and ensure adherence to fintech regulatory standards.
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Implement and maintain access controls, secrets management, and audit logging.
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Set up and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling across production and staging environments.
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Respond to and lead resolution of infrastructure incidents, conducting post-mortems to prevent recurrence.
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Ensure uptime and reliability targets are consistently met.
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Champion the ongoing journey toward serverless architectures (AWS Lambda / Azure Functions).
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Evaluate and recommend tooling improvements that support Ozow's evolving technical roadmap.
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Collaborate with engineering to modernise legacy infrastructure components incrementally.
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Maintain up-to-date documentation on infrastructure, pipelines, and runbooks.
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Drive adoption of automation and AI-assisted tooling to reduce toil and increase team velocity.
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Lead or contribute to the rollout of new systems, platforms, and DevOps tooling changes across the team.
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An IT diploma or degree (or equivalent hands-on experience).
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At least 3 years of relevant work experience in a DevOps, SysOps, or Infrastructure Engineering role.
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Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines - specifically TeamCity (Ozow's tool of choice).
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Strong knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda, and ECS.
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Hands-on experience with Docker and container orchestration via Kubernetes or ECS.
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Proficiency in both Linux and Windows server environments.
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Experience with scripting and automation (Bash, PowerShell, Python, or similar).
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A strong security mindset with experience implementing DevSecOps practices.
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Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar).
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Excellent communication skills - you can translate complex infrastructure concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
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Experience in a high-availability, regulated industry (fintech, banking, or similar) is a bonus.
Your skills and competencies
- You eagerly embrace change, absorb cross-functional skills, and connect ideas across disciplines to drive fresh thinking and innovation.
- Ability to initiate, develop, maintain and leverage outstanding relationships to influence a wide network, both inside and outside the company.
- A trailblazer who steps up, takes charge, and creates meaningful impact—those driven by performance and purpose to lead from the front and make a real difference every day.
- You thrive in collaboration, embrace inclusion, and bring a genuine curiosity for global cultures—valuing collective success over individual credit.
- Demonstrate strategic foresight, sound judgement, and the ability to make confident decisions under uncertainty, always working toward the best possible outcomes.
- You challenge norms, champion innovation, and constantly seek growth—for themselves, their team, and the solutions they build.
- You are a decisive doer—those who take initiative, follow through with confidence, and ensure results through courageous, hands-on leadership.
- We value optimism, agility, and the strength to persevere under pressure—balancing performance with positivity, even in challenging environments.
- You are driven, proactive individuals who take ownership, face challenges with grit, and consistently push for excellence—not just as participants, but as catalysts for success.
Interview process
During the interview process you will meet with the People team, the hiring manager, and relevant CSuite. Be prepared to complete a technical assessment that will showcase your skills.
In office perks
- Healthy breakfast, lunches and snacks
- Monthly team connects
- On-site Barista
Perks for South African based employees
- Medical aid subsidy
- Group Risk Insurance
- Generous paid annual leave
- Birthday leave
- Learning and Development opportunities
- Mentorship programme
- Quarterly team building
- Community initiatives
- Access to cutting edge technology - Ozow Tech Stack
Our Employee Value Proposition
Join Ozow and become part of an elite force that challenges the ordinary and achieves the extraordinary. If you're driven to make an impact, embrace challenges, and seek unparalleled opportunities for growth, your journey starts here.
Compliance
As a fintech company, we prioritize data security, confidentiality, regulatory and compliance. Due to the sensitive nature of our work, we require individuals with a high level of integrity and trustworthiness to ensure adherence to financial regulations and industry standards. Given the sensitive nature of our work, all employees are expected to demonstrate professionalism, accountability, and a commitment to ethical conduct in line with financial regulations and industry standards
Ready to be exceptional? Apply now!
Keen to know more?
Interested in joining our rocket ship?
To find out more about life at Ozow, head over to our Careers Page here!
Ready to apply?
Apply to OzowMeet 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
Your skills and competencies
- You eagerly embrace change, absorb cross-functional skills, and connect ideas across disciplines to drive fresh thinking and innovation.
- Ability to initiate, develop, maintain and leverage outstanding relationships to influence a wide network, both inside and outside the company.
- A trailblazer who steps up, takes charge, and creates meaningful impact—those driven by performance and purpose to lead from the front and make a real difference every day.
- You thrive in collaboration, embrace inclusion, and bring a genuine curiosity for global cultures—valuing collective success over individual credit.
- Demonstrate strategic foresight, sound judgement, and the ability to make confident decisions under uncertainty, always working toward the best possible outcomes.
- You challenge norms, champion innovation, and constantly seek growth—for themselves, their team, and the solutions they build.
- You are a decisive doer—those who take initiative, follow through with confidence, and ensure results through courageous, hands-on leadership.
- We value optimism, agility, and the strength to persevere under pressure—balancing performance with positivity, even in challenging environments.
- You are driven, proactive individuals who take ownership, face challenges with grit, and consistently push for excellence—not just as participants, but as catalysts for success.
Interview process
During the interview process you will meet with the People team, the hiring manager, and relevant CSuite. Be prepared to complete a technical assessment that will showcase your skills.
In office perks
- Healthy breakfast, lunches and snacks
- Monthly team connects
- On-site Barista
Perks for South African based employees
- Medical aid subsidy
- Group Risk Insurance
- Generous paid annual leave
- Birthday leave
- Learning and Development opportunities
- Mentorship programme
- Quarterly team building
- Community initiatives
- Access to cutting edge technology - Ozow Tech Stack
Our Employee Value Proposition
Join Ozow and become part of an elite force that challenges the ordinary and achieves the extraordinary. If you're driven to make an impact, embrace challenges, and seek unparalleled opportunities for growth, your journey starts here.
Compliance
As a fintech company, we prioritize data security, confidentiality, regulatory and compliance. Due to the sensitive nature of our work, we require individuals with a high level of integrity and trustworthiness to ensure adherence to financial regulations and industry standards. Given the sensitive nature of our work, all employees are expected to demonstrate professionalism, accountability, and a commitment to ethical conduct in line with financial regulations and industry standards
Ready to be exceptional? Apply now!
Keen to know more?
Interested in joining our rocket ship?
To find out more about life at Ozow, head over to our Careers Page here!
Ready to apply?
Apply to Ozow
Software Engineer (Python)
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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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Takealot Group
Software Engineer (Python)
Share this job
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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to takealot.com
Mid-level User Experience Designer
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Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented User Experience (UX) Designer with strong interests and capabilities in the research, design, and data analysis of engaging user experiences for Takealot sellers to join our Merchant 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 4.5 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
- Learn: We work with the best of the best.
- Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, TFS, and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.
The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. This individual excels at providing both highly analytical and highly creative ideas for a design project. The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment. A thorough understanding of user-centered design methodologies is a must.
This position is part of the Takealot UX Team but is dedicated to Merchant design work. The successful candidate will report to the Head of Experience Design and the Head of Merchant.
Your responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Head of Merchant, product managers & business stakeholders to confirm business objectives and define user objectives & flows.
- Measure the effectiveness of each initiative & refine it.
- Research interaction design trends.
- Conduct research independently.
- Run surveys in a timely and accurate manner.
- Collect survey data, analyze data, and capture and collate data results.
- Interpret the analyzed data.
- Build high-fidelity wireframes and working prototypes.
- Collaborate with technical leads in order to design innovative & engaging user experiences within platform constraints and technical limitations.
- Facilitate user testing and evaluate user feedback to further improve the concept or existing products.
- Work closely with the development & QA teams to ensure successful implementation of the specified designs.
- Propose further research, testing, and designs based on user needs.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Relevant tertiary qualifications required or equivalent experience
- You should have a minimum of 5 years of experience in design research, conducting surveys and interviews, and performing data analysis.
- You have at least 5 years of experience working with data sets, and you are comfortable doing data analysis and reporting based on data.
- Experience designing interfaces in a customer and user-centric manner.
- Experience with standard UCD methodologies.
- Experience with marketplace design & UI design would be beneficial.
The skills we need:
Design skills:
- Information architecture & information design
- Tables and portal design
- Interaction design
- Persona creation
- User-centered design
- UI design (low fidelity)
- Wireframing & prototyping
- Copywriting
Research skills:
- Data analysis
- Surveying
- Interviewing
- Task analysis
- Market research
- Usability testing
- A/B testing
- Web analytics
- User research
- Meticulous attention to data analysis (qualitatively and quantitatively), a high level of proven accuracy
Business Skills:
- Business analysis
- Communication skills (written, verbal & visual)
- Chairing workshops & meetings
- Project & people management
- Collaboration
Tools:
Strong working knowledge of the following web design tools
- Wireframing tools (e.g., Axure, Sketch, Figma, etc.)
- Process flow tools
- Survey tools
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? Upskill 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
Ready to apply?
Apply to Takealot Group
Mid-level User Experience Designer
Share this job
Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented User Experience (UX) Designer with strong interests and capabilities in the research, design, and data analysis of engaging user experiences for Takealot sellers to join our Merchant 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 4.5 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
- Learn: We work with the best of the best.
- Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, TFS, and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.
The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem-solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication. This individual excels at providing both highly analytical and highly creative ideas for a design project. The candidate will also have extensive experience in a fast-paced and innovative development environment. A thorough understanding of user-centered design methodologies is a must.
This position is part of the Takealot UX Team but is dedicated to Merchant design work. The successful candidate will report to the Head of Experience Design and the Head of Merchant.
Your responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Head of Merchant, product managers & business stakeholders to confirm business objectives and define user objectives & flows.
- Measure the effectiveness of each initiative & refine it.
- Research interaction design trends.
- Conduct research independently.
- Run surveys in a timely and accurate manner.
- Collect survey data, analyze data, and capture and collate data results.
- Interpret the analyzed data.
- Build high-fidelity wireframes and working prototypes.
- Collaborate with technical leads in order to design innovative & engaging user experiences within platform constraints and technical limitations.
- Facilitate user testing and evaluate user feedback to further improve the concept or existing products.
- Work closely with the development & QA teams to ensure successful implementation of the specified designs.
- Propose further research, testing, and designs based on user needs.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Relevant tertiary qualifications required or equivalent experience
- You should have a minimum of 5 years of experience in design research, conducting surveys and interviews, and performing data analysis.
- You have at least 5 years of experience working with data sets, and you are comfortable doing data analysis and reporting based on data.
- Experience designing interfaces in a customer and user-centric manner.
- Experience with standard UCD methodologies.
- Experience with marketplace design & UI design would be beneficial.
The skills we need:
Design skills:
- Information architecture & information design
- Tables and portal design
- Interaction design
- Persona creation
- User-centered design
- UI design (low fidelity)
- Wireframing & prototyping
- Copywriting
Research skills:
- Data analysis
- Surveying
- Interviewing
- Task analysis
- Market research
- Usability testing
- A/B testing
- Web analytics
- User research
- Meticulous attention to data analysis (qualitatively and quantitatively), a high level of proven accuracy
Business Skills:
- Business analysis
- Communication skills (written, verbal & visual)
- Chairing workshops & meetings
- Project & people management
- Collaboration
Tools:
Strong working knowledge of the following web design tools
- Wireframing tools (e.g., Axure, Sketch, Figma, etc.)
- Process flow tools
- Survey tools
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? Upskill 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
Ready to apply?
Apply to takealot.com
Infrastructure Engineer
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INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER
Cape Town
Hybrid working (On-site Tuesday and Thursday)
Based on the Cape Town beachfront – a breathtaking expanse of white sand and surf, against the backdrop of the world-famous Table Mountain is our newest addition to LiveScore Group – Wonderlabz.
With a strong legacy collective expertise, the team in Cape Town push the boundaries of gaming design and development, always aiming to provide advanced solutions to complex operational challenges delivering inhouse gaming software to LiveScore Group of the highest quality, every time.
LiveScore Group is home to LiveScore, LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet and now Wonderlabz - four of the most exciting brands in the sports and gaming industries today. We are passionate and excited about what we do in the Sports Media, Gaming and Betting sector and are proud of the high ratings we have achieved. We live our values, aiming to enhance and increase the enjoyment of sport through innovative products and immersive experiences. Trust is important in how we work, ensuring we are a collaborative unit who holds each other accountable. Relentlessly ambitious in everything we do, we embrace change and understand that failure is part of success.
We use our platform for positive social change and work to build a company our employees are proud to work for. We have a long-term commitment to diversity and inclusion. Our I.D.E.A (Inclusion, Diversity, Equality, Awareness) Forum is critical to our business and is embedded in our organisational structure to support a sense of belonging for everyone and to create a culture that allows all employees to thrive.
The Role
The Infrastructure Engineer’s role is to administer the Online Gaming platforms, ensure optimum performance and availability of such platform, provide third/fourth-level troubleshooting support, and liaise with all applicable service providers and third parties including NOC/1st/2nd line support. Provide technical support to all roles.
Key Responsibilities
- Partake in the design and implementation of new setups
- Assist in process improvement and automation.
- Test and design new systems/services and their suitability for possible use in production environments
- Proactive monitoring and support of the live and staging infrastructure
- Investigate and react to any live or staging issues that might arise
- Prepare and take part in the periodic release of new software
- Act as an escalation point for issues flagged by customer support
- Handle service requests, incidents, problems and change requests, using ITIL best practice.
- Assist in process improvement and automation.
- Assist in intensive investigations into problems that would included detailed log and metrics analysis to provide detailed analysis, resolution and future prevention of such issues
Skills, Knowledge and Experience
- All-rounder with proven experience in linux based environments with very good IT knowledge
- Possess excellent communication skills, capable of delivering information to both technical as well as non-technical personnel, the ability to work autonomously and in a team environment
- Detect/analyse alarms to provide fault isolation and remote troubleshooting, being a responsible individual for problems until their complete resolution
- Ability to analyse logs for troubleshooting issues, including malicious activity or cybersecurity threats, code and systems errors and problems
- Understands how to direct, support and guide other team members and knows how to motivate them with great attention to detail and acts as a senior technical resource for outages until restoration.
- Production support or implementation of Kubernetes, preferable in google managed Kubernetes environment (GKE) for at least 24 months
- Virtualisation - OpenStack, VMware, Cloud - Experience with any: Google GKE, Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, OpenShift/OKD
- Excellent log analysis and setup of aggregated logging systems such as Splunk/EFK and excellent networking skills including packet capture and analysis
- Excellent monitoring and metrics analysis and systems implementation such as Grafana, APM, Prometheus, Zabbix, etc… with deep knowledge of various monitoring tools and excellent problem-solving skills
- Experience with code repositories GitHub/Gitlab, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles and DNS/HTTPS certificates
What can we offer?
- Discovery medical aid
- 21 days leave
- Discretionary company performance bonus
Ready to apply?
Apply to LiveScore Group
Mr D - Software Engineer (Android)
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Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, is seeking a highly talented Software Engineer (Android) to join our team and craft the ultimate mobile experience for our thousands of daily active users. Be part of our mission to revolutionise the mobile eCommerce and food delivery landscape in South Africa.
Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!
- Scale: Show the millions of Mr D customers 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, TFS and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.
Who’s who in the tech space:
This position reports to an Engineering Manager.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Take ownership, build and maintain our bleeding edge mobile eCommerce Android application.
- Design, develop and test code written in Java/Kotlin.
- Apply best practice and ensure stability and security of the applications.
- Monitor and profile application performance.
- Take part in daily standup; manage your time and workload effectively.
- Collaborate with creative, content and engineering teams to design and develop a world-class Android application.
- Publish applications to the Google Play Store.
The skills we need:
- Strong Computer Science and programming fundamentals.
- Experience architecting, developing, testing and maintaining Android mobile applications.
- Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practice.
- Full understanding of the Android application, activity and fragment life-cycles.
- Appreciation of Android-specific asynchronous processing techniques.
- Knowledge and appreciation of Android user experience design patterns.
- Experience using GIT, Jira and Confluence.
- Experience developing in an Agile team environment.
- Be accountable, engaging and inventive.
- Work alongside a QA engineer regarding testing and product finalisation.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering or related field with a minimum of 3-5 years experience in a software development role.
- In the absence of a degree or diploma, a minimum of 6 years of equivalent experience in a software development role is required.
- For the Senior Android Engineer a minimum of 5 years native android experience is required including team lead experience
- For the Mid-level Android Engineer a minimum of 3 years native android experience is required
- Solid understanding and experience with Android architecture
- Solid understanding and experience with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
- Familiarity with Figma and Photoshop, as well as Google Maps, Firebase, and Braze.
Let’s talk about life @ Mr D
- 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.
- 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? We offer 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 in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
- Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.
- Right tools, right job: You’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
- Tech stack (for days): Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IOT 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!!
Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference
Ready to apply?
Apply to Takealot Group
Mr D - Software Engineer (Android)
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Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, is seeking a highly talented Software Engineer (Android) to join our team and craft the ultimate mobile experience for our thousands of daily active users. Be part of our mission to revolutionise the mobile eCommerce and food delivery landscape in South Africa.
Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!
- Scale: Show the millions of Mr D customers 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, TFS and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.
Who’s who in the tech space:
This position reports to an Engineering Manager.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Take ownership, build and maintain our bleeding edge mobile eCommerce Android application.
- Design, develop and test code written in Java/Kotlin.
- Apply best practice and ensure stability and security of the applications.
- Monitor and profile application performance.
- Take part in daily standup; manage your time and workload effectively.
- Collaborate with creative, content and engineering teams to design and develop a world-class Android application.
- Publish applications to the Google Play Store.
The skills we need:
- Strong Computer Science and programming fundamentals.
- Experience architecting, developing, testing and maintaining Android mobile applications.
- Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs (JSON) using best practice.
- Full understanding of the Android application, activity and fragment life-cycles.
- Appreciation of Android-specific asynchronous processing techniques.
- Knowledge and appreciation of Android user experience design patterns.
- Experience using GIT, Jira and Confluence.
- Experience developing in an Agile team environment.
- Be accountable, engaging and inventive.
- Work alongside a QA engineer regarding testing and product finalisation.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Engineering or related field with a minimum of 3-5 years experience in a software development role.
- In the absence of a degree or diploma, a minimum of 6 years of equivalent experience in a software development role is required.
- For the Senior Android Engineer a minimum of 5 years native android experience is required including team lead experience
- For the Mid-level Android Engineer a minimum of 3 years native android experience is required
- Solid understanding and experience with Android architecture
- Solid understanding and experience with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose
- Strong understanding of Computer Science fundamentals
- Familiarity with Figma and Photoshop, as well as Google Maps, Firebase, and Braze.
Let’s talk about life @ Mr D
- 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.
- 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? We offer 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 in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
- Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.
- Right tools, right job: You’ll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
- Tech stack (for days): Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IOT 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!!
Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference
Ready to apply?
Apply to takealot.com
Python Software Engineer
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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
Ready to apply?
Apply to Takealot Group
Python Software Engineer
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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
Ready to apply?
Apply to takealot.com
Senior Data Engineer (South Africa)
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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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to 2U
Senior Software Engineer (Java)
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Takealot Fufilment Solutions (TFS), is a new servicing offering which has been spun off from Takealot.com - South Africa’s leading online retailer. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to become part of our newly established Fulfilment Engineering team.
We are an energetic team that is fully responsible for all the systems required to support the Takealot Fulfilment Solutions capabilities as well as the unique challenges that come with orchestrating order fulfilment across distribution centers and logistics operations. We have adopted a microservices architecture to both isolate our logic and to enable scale. We follow REST architecture primarily but do use event-driven architecture where applicable.
Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!
- Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Client facing as we facilitate deliveries for multiple businesses.
- 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, & Takealot Fulfilment Solutions (TFS). Help us build out our new B2C and C2C Systems. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.
Who’s who in the tech space
This position reports to the Software Engineering Manager of the Fulfilment Orchestration Team.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Developing and optimizing systems to manage order fulfilment throughout South Africa
- Working with business to improve processes to allow for more efficient deliveries, operations, and improved customer experience.
- Researching and defining solutions across the fulfilment domain.
- Working predominantly on open source platforms
- End-to-end ownership of solutions
Attributes required:
- Solid communication skills
- Proactive
- Ability to adapt to change
- Problem-solver
- Solutions-oriented
- Willing to learn as well as teach others
Our Tech Stack:
- Java
- Spring Framework
- Angular & React
- Postgres
- Google Pubsub
- Google Cloud
- Graphite and Grafana
- Git
- Google Big Query
- Flyway
Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree in Computer Science or a similar qualification
- At least 5 years of experience in writing robust, efficient production code
- Must have experience with SQL database systems.
- Nice to have experience with Kubernetes systems ideally in GCP.
- Experience with development in a Linux environment
- Proficient in languages such as Java, Scala, Angular, React, Python, or C# - we are keen to help you learn through the gaps.
- Open to diversifying language skill set
- In the event that you do not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma, an equivalent experience requirement must be met
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design and integration is preferred
- Nice to have familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
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.
- 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.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Takealot Group
Senior Software Engineer (Java)
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Takealot Fufilment Solutions (TFS), is a new servicing offering which has been spun off from Takealot.com - South Africa’s leading online retailer. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer to become part of our newly established Fulfilment Engineering team.
We are an energetic team that is fully responsible for all the systems required to support the Takealot Fulfilment Solutions capabilities as well as the unique challenges that come with orchestrating order fulfilment across distribution centers and logistics operations. We have adopted a microservices architecture to both isolate our logic and to enable scale. We follow REST architecture primarily but do use event-driven architecture where applicable.
Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again!
- Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Client facing as we facilitate deliveries for multiple businesses.
- 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, & Takealot Fulfilment Solutions (TFS). Help us build out our new B2C and C2C Systems. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance.
Who’s who in the tech space
This position reports to the Software Engineering Manager of the Fulfilment Orchestration Team.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Developing and optimizing systems to manage order fulfilment throughout South Africa
- Working with business to improve processes to allow for more efficient deliveries, operations, and improved customer experience.
- Researching and defining solutions across the fulfilment domain.
- Working predominantly on open source platforms
- End-to-end ownership of solutions
Attributes required:
- Solid communication skills
- Proactive
- Ability to adapt to change
- Problem-solver
- Solutions-oriented
- Willing to learn as well as teach others
Our Tech Stack:
- Java
- Spring Framework
- Angular & React
- Postgres
- Google Pubsub
- Google Cloud
- Graphite and Grafana
- Git
- Google Big Query
- Flyway
Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree in Computer Science or a similar qualification
- At least 5 years of experience in writing robust, efficient production code
- Must have experience with SQL database systems
- Nice to have experience with Kubernetes systems ideally in GCP
- Experience with development in a Linux environment
- Proficient in languages such as Java, Scala, Angular, React, Python, or C# - we are keen to help you learn through the gaps
- Open to diversifying language skill set
- In the event that you do not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma, an equivalent experience requirement must be met
- Solid understanding of RESTful API design and integration is preferred
- Nice to have familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
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.
- 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.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, 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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to takealot.com
Software Engineer (Logistics)
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Takealot Fulfilment Solutions (TFS), a division of Takealot Online (RF) (Pty) Ltd, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer to join our Logistics team based in South Africa.
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.
Why Join TFS:
- Purpose-driven impact: Transform lives through logistics innovation
- Advanced technology: Work with cutting-edge systems in a fast-paced environment
- Career growth: Thrive in an agile space that champions continuous improvement
- Inclusive culture: Your unique perspective drives extraordinary results
- A culture that celebrates individual uniqueness while championing the strength of togetherness.
- Be part of creating sustainable, scalable solutions that make a difference across South Africa's e-commerce landscape.
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 Software Engineering Manager (Logistics).
We are an energetic team that is fully responsible for all the systems required to support the Takealot Group's delivery network as well as the unique challenges that come with logistics and scale. We have adopted a microservices architecture to both isolate our logic and to enable scale. We follow the event-driven architecture as well as utilize a graph database to model our delivery network. We are currently working through unique problems in the logistics space and are actively researching the usage of the actor model design pattern and graph traversal optimization.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Developing and optimizing systems to manage both parcel and food delivery throughout South Africa
- Working with business to improve processes to allow for more efficient deliveries
- Researching and defining solutions within the logistic domain
- Working predominantly on open source platforms
- End-to-end ownership of solutions
Attributes required:
- Solid communication skills
- Proactive
- Ability to adapt to change
- Problem-solver
- Solutions-oriented
- Willing to learn as well as teach others
Our Tech Stack:
- Scala
- Play Framework
- Angular
- Postgres
- Google Pubsub
- Cassandra DB
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud
- Graphite and Grafana
- Git
Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree in Computer Science or a similar qualification. In the absence of a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma, an equivalent experience requirement must be met.
- At least 5 years of experience in writing robust, efficient production code
- Experience with SQL database systems
- Experience with development in a Linux environment
- Proficient in languages such as Java, Scala, Angular, Python, or C#
- Open to diversifying language skill set
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.
- 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.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, 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).
Be part of the extraordinary. Be part of TFS.
Takealot Fulfilment Solutions (TFS) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Takealot Group
Software Engineer (Logistics)
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Takealot Fulfilment Solutions (TFS), a division of Takealot Online (RF) (Pty) Ltd, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer to join our Logistics team based in South Africa.
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.
Why Join TFS:
- Purpose-driven impact: Transform lives through logistics innovation
- Advanced technology: Work with cutting-edge systems in a fast-paced environment
- Career growth: Thrive in an agile space that champions continuous improvement
- Inclusive culture: Your unique perspective drives extraordinary results
- A culture that celebrates individual uniqueness while championing the strength of togetherness.
- Be part of creating sustainable, scalable solutions that make a difference across South Africa's e-commerce landscape.
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 Software Engineering Manager (Logistics).
We are an energetic team that is fully responsible for all the systems required to support the Takealot Group's delivery network as well as the unique challenges that come with logistics and scale. We have adopted a microservices architecture to both isolate our logic and to enable scale. We follow the event-driven architecture as well as utilize a graph database to model our delivery network. We are currently working through unique problems in the logistics space and are actively researching the usage of the actor model design pattern and graph traversal optimization.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Developing and optimizing systems to manage both parcel and food delivery throughout South Africa
- Working with business to improve processes to allow for more efficient deliveries
- Researching and defining solutions within the logistic domain
- Working predominantly on open source platforms
- End-to-end ownership of solutions
Attributes required:
- Solid communication skills
- Proactive
- Ability to adapt to change
- Problem-solver
- Solutions-oriented
- Willing to learn as well as teach others
Our Tech Stack:
- Scala
- Play Framework
- Angular
- Postgres
- Google Pubsub
- Cassandra DB
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud
- Graphite and Grafana
- Git
Qualifications & Experience:
- Degree in Computer Science or a similar qualification. In the absence of a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma, an equivalent experience requirement must be met.
- At least 5 years of experience in writing robust, efficient production code
- Experience with SQL database systems
- Experience with development in a Linux environment
- Proficient in languages such as Java, Scala, Angular, Python, or C#
- Open to diversifying language skill set
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.
- 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.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, 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).
Be part of the extraordinary. Be part of TFS.
Takealot Fulfilment Solutions (TFS) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
Ready to apply?
Apply to takealot.com
Engineering Manager
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Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group is looking for a highly talented Engineering Manager to join our team in Cape Town. Please note that this position is a hybrid role.
Are you ready to make a real impact in one of South Africa’s most dynamic tech environments?
You will lead a team of Software Engineers constantly striving for quality solutions that are delivered on time, within budget and scope, and drive a culture of quality and personal accountability.
You should have hands-on experience in designing and building high-performance, scalable, and distributed backend systems. With a strong development background, you should possess a solid understanding of architectural principles and best practices. As a proponent of iterative engineering methodologies, you will also bring prior experience in line management, demonstrating a proven ability to keep highly skilled developers engaged and motivated.
This is a hands-on position where you will actively lead architectural and strategic planning alongside peers and senior developers. You will also take ownership of day-to-day people management and foster the growth of a high-performing, successful team. Your role will involve contributing to and refining all stages of the software development life cycle. If you enjoy coding, rest assured that you will have opportunities to stay involved in writing code as well.
Who’s who in the tech space
This position reports to the Platform Engineering Director of Mr D.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Guide team development efforts towards successful delivery
- Provide technical leadership to team members through coaching and mentorship
- Enforce high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
- Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team
- Collaborate with other software developers, technical product managers, product owners, and business owners to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain business applications.
- Assist in the collection and documentation of user requirements, development of user stories, estimates, and work plans
- Prepare reports, manuals, and other documentation on the status, operation, and maintenance of software
- Ensure that the team builds applications in accordance with agreed best practices and standards around security, scalability, operations, and testing.
- Participate in peer-reviews of solution designs and related code Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications
- Analyze and resolve technical and application problems
- Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties
- Communicate with leadership regarding progress against plans, issues, and needs Work with other team leads to leverage targeted technologies, processes, standards, and methodologies
- Conduct regular 1:1 meetings with each assigned team member to assist with issues and provide mentoring support
- Serve as an integral part of the recruitment team for open positions within the team
- Provide performance input of assigned team members for the performance enhancement review process
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders outside of your area
- Strong driver to identify and improve key areas for engineering staff retention
- Influences team to adopt current company technology standards
- Ensure your team implements on-call rotations and manages their operations effectively
- Enables the team to reduce tech debt, automate mundane work, reduce hot desk workload, and build systems for success
The skills we need:
- A solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high-energy
- Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
- Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
- Passion for learning new skills and appreciation for inventing and simplifying
- A curious thinker who understands technical topics beyond the average reader
- Comfortable with rapidly changing and/or loosely defined requirements that are refined over time
- Thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, OO concepts, data structures, and algorithms
Qualifications & Experience:
- At least 5 years experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership role
- Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience
- Experience leading and managing a team of engineers on complex software projects
- Experience influencing a team of developers to deliver highly available and scalable solutions
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) new and existing systems
- Experience with stateless architecture design, microservices, and the understanding of the strengths and weaknesses thereof
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience with cloud service providers like GCP/AWS and development in a *nix environment
- Strong hands-on experience in Python development, with a mindset for developing optimized code
- Experience with creating APIs and using databases (relational & non-relational)
Let’s talk about life @ Mr D
- 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.
- 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 Prosus Academy, Udacity, Coursera, and more.
- Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds in the Takealot Group during regular social events and out-of-office activities
- Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support, and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
- Tech stack (for days): Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IOT, 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!!
Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference
Ready to apply?
Apply to takealot.com
Engineering Manager
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Mr D, a division of the Takealot Group, is looking for a highly talented Engineering Manager to join our team in Cape Town. Please note that this position is a hybrid role.
Are you ready to make a real impact in one of South Africa’s most dynamic tech environments?
You will lead a team of Software Engineers constantly striving for quality solutions that are delivered on time, within budget and scope, and drive a culture of quality and personal accountability.
You should have hands-on experience in designing and building high-performance, scalable, and distributed backend systems. With a strong development background, you should possess a solid understanding of architectural principles and best practices. As a proponent of iterative engineering methodologies, you will also bring prior experience in line management, demonstrating a proven ability to keep highly skilled developers engaged and motivated.
This is a hands-on position where you will actively lead architectural and strategic planning alongside peers and senior developers. You will also take ownership of day-to-day people management and foster the growth of a high-performing, successful team. Your role will involve contributing to and refining all stages of the software development life cycle. If you enjoy coding, rest assured that you will have opportunities to stay involved in writing code as well.
Who’s who in the tech space
This position reports to the Platform Engineering Director of Mr D.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Guide team development efforts towards successful delivery
- Provide technical leadership to team members through coaching and mentorship
- Enforce high standards of software quality within the team by establishing good practices and habits
- Identify and encourage areas for growth and improvement within the team
- Collaborate with other software developers, technical product managers, product owners, and business owners to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain business applications.
- Assist in the collection and documentation of user requirements, development of user stories, estimates, and work plans
- Prepare reports, manuals, and other documentation on the status, operation, and maintenance of software
- Ensure that the team builds applications in accordance with agreed best practices and standards around security, scalability, operations, and testing.
- Participate in peer reviews of solution designs and related code
- Develop, refine, and tune integrations between applications
- Analyze and resolve technical and application problems
- Assess opportunities for application and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties
- Communicate with leadership regarding progress against plans, issues, and needs
- Work with other team leads to leverage targeted technologies, processes, standards, and methodologies
- Conduct regular 1:1 meetings with each assigned team member to assist with issues and provide mentoring support
- Serve as an integral part of the recruitment team for open positions within the team
- Provide performance input of assigned team members for the performance enhancement review process
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders outside of your area
- Strong driver to identify and improve key areas for engineering staff retention
- Influences team to adopt current company technology standards
- Ensure your team implements on-call rotations and manages their operations effectively
- Enables the team to reduce tech debt, automate mundane work, reduce hot desk workload, and build systems for success
The skills we need:
- A solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high-energy
- Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
- Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
- Passion for learning new skills and appreciation for inventing and simplifying
- A curious thinker who understands technical topics beyond the average reader
- Comfortable with rapidly changing and/or loosely defined requirements that are refined over time
- Thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, OO concepts, data structures, and algorithms
Qualifications & Experience:
- At least 5 years experience in software engineering, with at least 2 years in a leadership role
- Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience
- Experience leading and managing a team of engineers on complex software projects
- Experience influencing a team of developers to deliver highly available and scalable solutions
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability, and scaling) new and existing systems
- Experience with stateless architecture design, microservices, and an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses thereof
- Experience with full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations
- Experience with cloud service providers like GCP/AWS and development in a *nix environment
- Strong hands-on experience in Python development, with a mindset for developing optimized code
- Experience with creating APIs and using databases (relational & non-relational)
Let’s talk about life @ Mr D
- 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.
- Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Upskill with free access to courses on Prosus Academy, Udacity, Coursera, and more.
- Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds in the Takealot Group during regular social events and out-of-office activities
- Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support, and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
- Tech stack (for days): Angular, Python, Kotlin, Swift, AWS, Kafka, Redis, Docker, Kubernetes, IOT, 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!!
Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference
Ready to apply?
Apply to Takealot Group
Software Engineering Manager (Logistics)
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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).
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Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given a preference
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Software Engineering Manager (Logistics)
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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
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TECHNICAL LEAD, INCIDENT RESPONSE, SOUTH AFRICA
WHO WE ARE
S-RM is a global intelligence and cyber security consultancy. Since 2005, we’ve helped some of the most demanding clients in the world solve some of their toughest information security challenges.
We’ve been able to do this because of our outstanding people. We’re committed to developing sharp, curious, driven individuals 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.
WORKING IN CYBER AT S-RM
Our Cyber Security division is the fastest-growing part of S-RM. The cyber sector is always evolving, and our Advisory, Ethical Hacking, and Incident Response practices are in more demand than ever.
We’re building a team to meet this challenge. We’re quick to respond, innovate, and improve. We don’t get too hung up on hierarchy or bureaucracy. If your ideas are good enough, we’ll empower you to implement them. If you’re the best person to talk to a customer, you’ll get that opportunity, regardless of the title in your email signature. And when you need a hand, your team will always have your back.
We also don’t believe there’s a typical cyber security professional. We’ve built a team of intelligence analysts, technical specialists, software developers, investigators, risk managers, and more. You’ll always find a range of perspectives and expertise to help you learn and grow.
If that sounds like your kind of team, we’d like to hear from you.
THE ROLE
Our Incident Response Consultants are a critical part of our Cyber Security consulting practice’s success. As a Technical Lead, you will deploy your incident response expertise in a senior, client‑facing delivery role across our incident response services.
You will work across the full lifecycle of security incidents to help our clients respond and recover, spanning both traditional incident response scenarios (such as ransomware, business email compromise and intrusion investigations) and modern incidents affecting cloud platforms, CI/CD pipelines and software delivery environments.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
You will be responsible for leading and delivering technical investigations for clients, including:
- Leading technical incident response engagements from first contact through to closure
- Acting as the primary technical resource on response cases, applying your own expertise and providing guidance to colleagues on the project team.
- Overseeing host‑, network‑ and cloud‑based investigations, including:
- Triage and containment
- System recovery and remediation support
- Technical evidence collection and forensic analysis
- Log, malware and root cause analysis
- Investigating a wide range of incident types, including but not limited to:
- Ransomware and extortion incidents
- Business Email Compromise (BEC)
- Unauthorised access and data breaches
- Incidents involving cloud environments, CI/CD pipelines, automation and software supply chains
- Applying cloud and DevOps‑related expertise where required, for example when incidents involve:
- Compromised cloud identities, APIs or control planes
- Abuse of CI/CD pipelines, source code repositories or secrets
- Infrastructure‑as‑Code and automated deployment workflows
- Developing and sharing domain expertise
We will support you to deepen your technical knowledge and share it across the wider team through internal initiatives, training and capability development. - Participating in an on‑call rotation
Providing 24×7×365 incident response coverage for our clients.
OTHER FEATURES OF THE ROLE
- Variety of casework
No two days are the same. You will respond to a diverse range of incidents across public and private sector clients, industries and technology stacks. - Range of opportunities
In addition to incident response, you will have opportunities to contribute to related consulting work such as post‑incident reviews, incident readiness, threat exposure assessments and broader advisory projects. - Flexible working practices
Incident response can be intense, high‑pressure work. We are mindful of work/life balance and offer flexible working arrangements to support wellbeing.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
Candidates with the following experience and attributes are likely to succeed as Incident Response Consultants at S‑RM.
That said, if you don’t meet every criterion below but are interested in the role, we encourage you to apply. We value individuals who are particularly strong in certain areas and keen to develop in others.
We nurture a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion and are committed to building a workforce with varied backgrounds, skills and perspectives.
Experience
- 5+ years’ experience in a technical cyber security, cloud security, DevSecOps, platform engineering or related role.
- Direct experience working in a consulting or in‑house incident response team is beneficial, but not essential.
Approach
- A strong investigative mindset, with the ability to work through complex problems using limited or incomplete information.
- Comfortable operating in high‑pressure, time‑critical client situations.
Technical skillset
- Strong technical foundations suitable for investigating a range of incident types, including ransomware and intrusion scenarios.
- Experience or strong interest in cloud and modern infrastructure, such as:
- AWS, Azure or GCP
- CI/CD platforms and automation
- Identity, logging and audit trails in cloud environments
- Comfortable using scripting and automation to support investigations and analysis.
Threat awareness
- Demonstrable knowledge of cyber threat actors and their tactics, techniques and procedures, including those targeting both traditional enterprise environments and modern cloud‑based systems.
Communication
- Able to clearly communicate technical findings and risk to non‑technical client audiences in a professional consulting setting.
Qualifications
Relevant certifications are not required, but the following (or similar) are beneficial:
GCFE, GCFA, EnCE, CFSR, CISSP, GREM, CCNA, MCFE, OSCP, Network+, Security+
Cloud and platform‑focused certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Terraform) are also advantageous.
The successful candidate must have permission to work in South Africa by the start of their employment.
OUR 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 public holidays (+1 day for every year of service up to a maximum of 30 days in total);
- Hybrid working and flexible working hours;
- Matching pension contribution up to 7% (up to a maximum of 14% combined), and financial education;
- Life Insurance 4X annual salary.
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 (taxable benefit) for you and your immediate family
- EAP program for you and your immediate family;
- Free access to the world-famous mindfulness app.
THE APPLICATION PROCESS
We want to get to know you, and for you to get to know us, to see if we’d be a good fit. We are responsive and respectful of people’s time throughout our hiring process.
A typical application process includes:
- Initial screening of your application by our recruiting team.
- An interview to assess your baseline technical skills.
- An interview to discuss your previous experience and broader competencies.
- An final interview to determine alignment with the role.
Please apply via: Job Application for Technical Lead, Incident Response at S-RM
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Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
We're building teams to help us succeed in our mission to upgrade the world to a better financial system. As an intermediate engineer, you’ll be joining a group of highly motivated software engineers who you’ll work collaboratively with across our pods.
As a fast-growing company with offices around the world, you’ll immediately see how your contributions directly impact both our internal users and client experience. Many of the problems we are solving result in trail blazing solutions which can’t be found on Stack Overflow; so we’re looking for engineers who flourish working in a complex domain.
Your mission will be:
- Build distributed microservices that are accessed by 10m customers from across the globe.
- Design, build and maintain advanced applications services.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Write testable, maintainable code for robustness and reliability.
- Work on bug fixing and improving application performance.
- Write code that directly affects users, the company and the Bitcoin ecosystem.
A little about you:
- Background in computer science in areas such as algorithms, data structures, and software design.
- Proven experience leading development efforts and guiding engineering teams through end-to-end project delivery.
- Extensive programming experience in Backend based technologies. Go(lang) is preferable.
- A continuous improvement mindset.
- BSc/MSc/PhD in computer science or other technical discipline, or equivalent working experience.
- To be friendly, transparent, articulate and driven to succeed.
Don’t be put off if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see
What stack we work on:
- Kotlin, Swift & Angular
- Go(lang), gRPC
- Kubernetes (EKS), Docker
- CloudFlare, CloudFront, nginx
- MySQL (RDS), Redis (ElastiCache), etc
- Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Jenkins
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Senior Full Stack Engineer, South Africa
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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!
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To apply, click the "Apply for this job" button
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Complete all the required questions
- This role is only open to candidates based in Cape Town, South Africa
Questions? Please contact careers@paystack.com.
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About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
The Platform SRE team at Luno owns the full infrastructure stack - from Kubernetes and AWS through to CI/CD, observability, networking, and developer tooling. We work with high autonomy, balancing business initiatives, platform improvements, and the reliability work that keeps a global financial platform running. We build for the future and enable developers to deliver now. We are spread across the world and operate in a remote-first environment, where collaboration and communication is crucial day-to-day.
The role in a nutshell:
As a Staff SRE at Luno, you are providing technical expertise and oversight for reliability and scalability across our cloud estate. Joining a high-impact team, you will help shape the future of our platform while partnering with teams throughout the engineering organisation to scale reliability and accelerate delivery.
You’ll help manage multi-region Kubernetes and AWS at scale within a regulated financial environment - where uptime is critical. Beyond solving complex problems, you’ll define the technical roadmap, prioritize high-impact initiatives, and lead their execution.
Your mission will be:
- Owning and driving large-scale platform initiatives from problem definition through to delivery - setting technical direction, aligning stakeholders, and seeing projects through
- Shaping how the Platform team builds and operates: from architectural standards to how we respond when things go wrong.
- Building and scaling infrastructure and CI/CD processes on the Luno platform by applying and enforcing Infrastructure as Code.
- Apply security first principles when building - ensuring compliance with various security and legal audits that we apply for and encounter in the crypto industry.
- Contributing to the team's long-term roadmap while staying hands-on - this is a role that requires both strategic thinking and the ability to go deep.
- Increasing AI adoption throughout the Platform team and engineering as whole, identifying opportunities to improve how we work and increase efficiency.
A little about you:
- You're energised by hard infrastructure problems and take pride in solving them properly, not just quickly
- You’re comfortable influencing team decisions without direct ownership, using data, clear reasoning and pragmatic choices.
- You're comfortable with ambiguity and are able to bring structure to it through research and requirements.
- You communicate clearly and directly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders - recognizing that written context is just as important as the work itself.
- You’re curious by nature and motivated to keep learning as tools, techniques and the platform landscape evolves.
- You have an active interest in AI tooling and emergent technologies.
The ideal Lunaut will have:
- Deep, hands-on experience in a Site Reliability, Platform, DevOps, or Infrastructure engineering role.
- Strong AWS knowledge, with experience architecting and operating multi-account, multi-region environments.
- Production-grade Kubernetes experience: building, running and scaling clusters with strict uptime requirements.
- Extensive experience with observability and monitoring tooling to support live services.
- Experience partnering with cross-functional teams to scope, design and implement business-lead projects.
- Demonstrable experience in managing large infrastructure projects using Terraform
- Experience leveraging AI tools to increase team productivity - from infrastructure automation, to improving operational workflows.
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events and virtual cooking, dancing, drawing and house planting classes hosted by our Lunauts
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Ready to apply?
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WHO WE ARE AT BASH
We are a team of leaders, bold thinkers and friends, and we’re on a mission to create remarkable omni-channel experiences for our customers.
We believe that by being Bold, Accountable, Simple and Human, our values will lead us forward, keeping us real, connected and directed.
By leveraging the power of technology and exceptional talent, we are building products that bring the physical and digital world together to create communities that prosper. This journey requires grit, ambition and teamwork as we transform SA retail for the better.
And we’re only just getting started. Now is the time to jump onboard.
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.
JOINING THE BASH TEAM
We empower our people to choose where they would like to do their best work, with the tools they need to get there but we also encourage our teams to travel so we can also make magic happen face to face. Our offices are a vibe, which doesn’t hurt. They are decked out to make collaboration easy and help our team create lasting connections with each other. We bring teams together for planning, celebration, ideation and onboarding, and more.
BASH PERKS
Our perks are supercharged by our intangible benefits, like the optionality that comes with building a hyper growth business, being surrounded by the best talent in the biz and building great products that wow our customers and drive growth for our country.
Best of the Best - The wealth of talent we have will surprise + inspire you
Security within a startup - The best of both worlds. TFG's buy-in lets us invest in the people and initiatives we believe in.
Agency and Optionality - Use the ambition and collective force of our talent to drive your career in the direction you dream.
Connection and Friendship - We make sure you connect, laugh and have fun with the team. Play hard, work hard vibes.
Top $$ - The best people, in the right roles, earning at the top tier.
Your Time - We’ve got generous paid holiday, wellbeing leave and even Birthday leave for you to enjoy when you need it.
Exclusive Shopping Discount - Save when you shop across over 500 brands in-store and on bash.com.
Ready to apply?
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About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
About the team:
The Cloud Security team at Luno is responsible for identifying security threats and improvement areas within our cloud hosted resources, and ensuring that we both strive to implement best practices everywhere and detect any deviations. This team works closely with engineering and IT operations to ensure the best security practices are followed in both areas of the business.
About the role:
We're looking for a AWS Cloud Security Analyst to be a force multiplier across the organisation, someone who brings deep cloud security expertise, strong architectural thinking, and the confidence to challenge assumptions when needed.You’ll work hands-on across our AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD and developer environments, surfacing risks early, designing secure patterns, automating controls, and strengthening the foundational security posture that underpins a global crypto exchange.This is a role for someone who wants to build, influence, advise, and elevate — not just run scanners.
Your mission will be:
- Continuously assess and uplift the security posture of our AWS and Kubernetes environments through automation and secure-by-design principles.
- Partner closely with Engineering, SRE, and IT Ops to deliver practical, business-enabling security solutions — not blockers.
- Analyse existing infrastructure and microservice architectures, highlight systemic risks, and define secure patterns that scale.
- Lead security input across new projects from design → delivery, ensuring resilient architectures and guardrails are in place early.
- Develop proof-of-concepts, hardening strategies, and safe rollout plans for improvements.
- Strengthen detection and response capabilities by improving security telemetry, triage, anomaly detection, and automation
- Advanced AWS expertise — ideally with Professional or Specialty certifications.
- Strong experience in Kubernetes, cluster security, and containerised workloads.
- Background in Cloud Engineering / SRE / DevOps / Systems with strong security instincts.
- Proficiency in automation and scripting (Python preferred).
- Hands-on experience with Terraform and secure IaC patterns.
- A solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and the SDLC.
- A mindset that balances pragmatic engineering with strong security judgement.
- Curiosity, ownership, and a genuine passion for learning and improving systems
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events.
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Luno
About us:
Luno is the crypto investment app you can rely on, enabling you to buy, store and explore crypto securely. We’re committed to putting the power of cryptocurrency in everyone's hands sensibly and responsibly.
Since 2013, we’ve helped millions of people around the world invest safely in crypto. We do this by cutting through the hype and supporting customers at every step of the way. All products and cryptocurrencies on our platform must first meet stringent legal, risk and technical security standards.
Transparency is key for us. Luno stores all crypto on a 1:1 basis and we have rigorous processes in place so you can be confident your investment is secure. We’re available in more than 40 countries around the world and we work closely with respective regulators in all of these markets to be fully compliant, as we believe this is the best way to help everyone, everywhere, invest safely.
The role in a nutshell:
As a Quantitative Software Engineer (Quant Dev) at Luno, you will design, build, and operate the high-performance systems and mathematical models that underpin our trading, pricing, and market-making capabilities.
You will sit at the intersection of quantitative research and production engineering, translating quantitative ideas, models, and strategies into robust, low-latency, production-grade systems that operate reliably in a 24/7 global market. Your work will directly impact liquidity, pricing quality, risk management, and customer outcomes.
Your mission will be:
Quantitative Strategy Engineering
- Partner closely with quantitative researchers to implement, optimise, and productionise trading and pricing models.
- Translate mathematical models, research prototypes, and proofs-of-concept into scalable, reliable production systems.
- Validate assumptions, edge cases, and numerical stability when moving models from research to live environments.
Trading & Market Systems
- Build and evolve market-making, pricing, and execution logic across crypto markets.
- Develop automated internal transfer, rebalancing, and hedging mechanisms.
- Configuration: Add and refine console parameters to optimise for volume, spread, profit, or rebalancing.
Performance, Quality & Risk
- Profile, benchmark, and optimise code paths critical to trading performance.
- Implement regression testing, simulation, and backtesting frameworks to ensure correctness and risk controls.
- Ensure strategies and systems meet governance, auditability, and compliance requirements.
Ownership & Delivery
- Own initiatives end-to-end: design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Align technical delivery with OKRs and broader Treasury / Trading objectives.
- Work closely with Product and Engineering Managers to shape realistic priorities and timelines.
Collaboration & Coaching
- Act as a bridge between quantitative research and engineering teams.
- Mentor engineers on quantitative systems, numerical correctness, and best practices in trading system design.
- Contribute to raising the overall bar for engineering excellence within the team.
A little about you
Experience
- Proven experience as a software engineer, with exposure to or strong interest in quantitative finance, trading systems, or financial infrastructure.
- Experience working with trading models, pricing systems, or data-driven decision engines is a strong advantage.
Technical Strength
- Strong programming skills, particularly in Python, with solid foundations in data structures, algorithms, and system design.
- Experience writing production-grade, performance-sensitive systems.
- Familiarity with numerical computing, modelling, or statistical techniques is beneficial.
Quantitative Mindset
- Comfortable working with mathematical models and translating them into software.
- Able to reason about trade-offs between model sophistication, performance, and operational risk.
Don’t be put off if you don’t tick all of the boxes – they’re a guide based on what we’d love to see
What stack we work on:
- Kotlin, Swift & Angular
- Go(lang), gRPC
- Kubernetes (EKS), Docker
- CloudFlare, CloudFront, nginx
- MySQL (RDS), Redis (ElastiCache), etc
- Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Jenkins
Life at Luno:
- Remote but reachable work policy gives you the freedom to choose between working from home or the office.
- Plus the option to buy and sell up to 5 days leave
- Improve body and mind, with excellent private medical insurance
- Access to Learnably and our additional learning platforms for your personal and professional development
- 6 months primary care-giver leave
- Paw-ternity leave for your furry friend
- Annual Inspiration Day in addition to your annual leave which increases based on your length of service!
- A collaborative, friendly work community, with regular social events.
- 0 fees up to a certain amount with Luno from the day you start.*
*Offer only available on Luno Instant Buy, not Luno Exchange
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Search Software Engineer (Back-end)
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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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Takealot Group
Search Software Engineer (Back-end)
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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.
Ready to apply?
Apply to takealot.com
Software Engineer (Scala)
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Takealot Fulfilment Solutions (TFS), a division of Takealot Online (RF) (Pty) Ltd, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer (Scala) to join our team based in South Africa.
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.
Why Join TFS:
- Purpose-driven impact: Transform lives through logistics innovation
- Advanced technology: Work with cutting-edge systems in a fast-paced environment
- Career growth: Thrive in an agile space that champions continuous improvement
- Inclusive culture: Your unique perspective drives extraordinary results
- A culture that celebrates individual uniqueness while championing the strength of togetherness.
- Be part of creating sustainable, scalable solutions that make a difference across South Africa's e-commerce landscape.
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 Software Engineering Manager (Logistics).
We are an energetic team that is fully responsible for all the systems required to support the Takealot Group's delivery network as well as the unique challenges that come with logistics and scale. We have adopted a microservices architecture to both isolate our logic and to enable scale. We follow the event-driven architecture as well as utilize a graph database to model our delivery network. We are currently working through unique problems in the logistics space and are actively researching the usage of the actor model design pattern and graph traversal optimization.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Developing and optimizing systems to manage both parcel and food delivery throughout South Africa
- Working with business to improve processes to allow for more efficient deliveries
- Researching and defining solutions within the logistic domain
- Working predominantly on open source platforms
- End-to-end ownership of solutions
Attributes required:
- Solid communication skills
- Proactive
- Ability to adapt to change
- Problem-solver
- Solutions-oriented
- Willing to learn as well as teach others
Qualifications & Experience:
- A suitable degree or similar qualification
- At least 3 years of experience in writing robust, efficient production code
- Experience with SQL database systems
- Experience with development in a Linux environment
- Proficient in a strongly typed language such as Scala, Java or C#
- Open to diversifying language skill set
- Experience with the following will be advantageous:
- Scala
- Play Framework
- Akka Actors
- React
- Postgres
- Mqtt & Kafka
- Amazon Web Services
- Graphite and Grafana
- Git
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.
- 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 counselling, 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).
Be part of the extraordinary. Be part of TFS.
Takealot Fulfilment Solutions (TFS) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
Ready to apply?
Apply to Takealot Group
Software Engineer (Scala)
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Takealot Fulfilment Solutions (TFS), a division of Takealot Online (RF) (Pty) Ltd, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer (Scala) to join our team based in South Africa.
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.
Why Join TFS:
- Purpose-driven impact: Transform lives through logistics innovation
- Advanced technology: Work with cutting-edge systems in a fast-paced environment
- Career growth: Thrive in an agile space that champions continuous improvement
- Inclusive culture: Your unique perspective drives extraordinary results
- A culture that celebrates individual uniqueness while championing the strength of togetherness.
- Be part of creating sustainable, scalable solutions that make a difference across South Africa's e-commerce landscape.
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 Software Engineering Manager (Logistics).
We are an energetic team that is fully responsible for all the systems required to support the Takealot Group's delivery network as well as the unique challenges that come with logistics and scale. We have adopted a microservices architecture to both isolate our logic and to enable scale. We follow the event-driven architecture as well as utilize a graph database to model our delivery network. We are currently working through unique problems in the logistics space and are actively researching the usage of the actor model design pattern and graph traversal optimization.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Developing and optimizing systems to manage both parcel and food delivery throughout South Africa
- Working with business to improve processes to allow for more efficient deliveries
- Researching and defining solutions within the logistic domain
- Working predominantly on open source platforms
- End-to-end ownership of solutions
Attributes required:
- Solid communication skills
- Proactive
- Ability to adapt to change
- Problem-solver
- Solutions-oriented
- Willing to learn as well as teach others
Qualifications & Experience:
- A suitable degree or similar qualification
- At least 3 years of experience in writing robust, efficient production code
- Experience with SQL database systems
- Experience with development in a Linux environment
- Proficient in a strongly typed language such as Scala, Java or C#
- Open to diversifying language skill set
- Experience with the following will be advantageous:
- Scala
- Play Framework
- Akka Actors
- React
- Postgres
- Mqtt & Kafka
- Amazon Web Services
- Graphite and Grafana
- Git
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.
- 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 counselling, 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).
Be part of the extraordinary. Be part of TFS.
Takealot Fulfilment Solutions (TFS) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
Ready to apply?
Apply to takealot.com
Senior Software Engineer (Python) - Supply Chain
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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.
Who’s who in the tech space
This position reports to the respective team's manager.
As a Software Engineer, you will be someone whose expertise directly translates into the development of robust software in the e-commerce domain. You will be from a computer science background with an emphasis on software development. You will have the opportunity to implement best practices to improve existing software and participate in the development of new features. While we don't promote after-hours work as part of the regular workday, we run a 24/7 business with the need to keep systems up and running. Software Engineers are expected to provide after-hours support on a rotational basis to resolve critical system issues.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- Design and build solutions to assist our business users, and improve customer experience
- Architect and design solutions with your team
- Keep up to date with technology trends
- Apply creative thought processes to solve complex challenges at scale
- Strong focus on making takealot.com the best place to shop at, a happy customer is a repeat customer
- Drive for excellence, to help foster a world-class engineering team
The skills we need:
- Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude, and high energy
- Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
- Ability to dis-aggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problems
- Solid quantitative skills
- Ability to interview and interact professionally, with internal and external people
- Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
- Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering or equivalent experience in software development.
- A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
- 3 to 5 years experience in a software development role for an intermediate-level position
- 5 to 10+ years experience in a software development role for a senior-level position
- Experience in writing robust, efficient production code
- Proficient in a strongly typed language such as Python
- Experience with development in a Linux environment
- Experience with SQL database systems
- Open to diversifying language skill set
- Experience in the following will be advantageous:
- 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
- Microservices
Why Join TFS:
- Purpose-driven impact: Transform lives through logistics innovation
- Advanced technology: Work with cutting-edge systems in a fast-paced environment
- Career growth: Thrive in an agile space that champions continuous improvement
- Inclusive culture: Your unique perspective drives extraordinary results
At TFS, your growth is our growth. You'll be joining a team powered by Takealot Group's core values.
More than just a job, we offer:
A culture that celebrates individual uniqueness while championing the strength of togetherness. Be part of creating sustainable, scalable solutions that make a difference across South Africa's e-commerce landscape.
Takealot Fulfilment Solutions (TFS) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
Ready to apply?
Apply to takealot.com