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 2.5 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, Superbalist.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here's your chance.
This position reports to the Business Systems Engineering Director
Our ideal candidate will be from a development background and have a good understanding of architectural practices. You will be an advocate of agile and iterative engineering practices and you will have prior line management experience with a track record of keeping highly skilled developers motivated. This is an exciting opportunity to lead a growing team of engineers working on Takealot.com's ambitious development roadmap.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
- We are looking for an experienced software development team lead to join a versatile and creative IT management team.
- As a development team lead you will lead a co-located group of developers and testers constantly striving for quality solutions that are delivered on time, within budget and scope, and drive a culture of quality and personal accountability.
- You will need a strong understanding of large-scale platform development, have experience building backend applications and an appreciation of the technical challenges developers face.
- You will be from a development background and have a good understanding of architectural practices.
- You will be an advocate of agile and iterative engineering practices and you will have prior line management experience with a track record of keeping highly skilled developers motivated.
- Successfully launch new products quickly as well as manage a large existing code base.
- This is an exciting opportunity to lead a growing team of engineers working on takealot.com's ambitious development roadmap.
- This is a hands-on role but you shouldn't expect more than 30% of your time writing code and working with others on your team directly contributing to the production of code. The remainer of your time will be split between architectural and strategic planning with peers and senior developers and the day-to-day people management and development required of a high-performing and successful team.
- Customer centric
- Solutions and results-oriented
- Natural leader
- Innovative problem solver
- Curious thinker that understands technical topics beyond the average reader
- Ambitious and hard-working individual prepared to do more than the 9 to 5 to get up to speed.
- Influencer that constantly grow the quality of their engineering team, through technical initiatives
- Effective time management and organizational skills
- Proven ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships
- Must be comfortable with rapidly changing and/or loosely defined requirements that are refined over time
- Skilled at active listening and capable of facilitating discussions
- Strong communication skills with both internal team members and external business stakeholders
- Strong initiative to find ways to improve solutions, systems, and processes
- Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering and 5 years of Software Development experience, of which a minimum of 2 years management experience or as a technical lead on multiple projects, with a focus on high-quality output is required.
- In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor's Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Software Development experience, of which a minimum of 2 years management experience or as a technical lead on multiple projects, with a focus on high-quality output is required.
- Experience mentoring less experienced colleagues or teams
- Experience working within an agile team that is operationally hands-on, and an advocate of that culture.
- Experience and a proven track record of architectural ownership and understanding.
- Experience in developing distributed, transactional, and highly available systems.
- Good RDBMS/SQL experience in a high-load environment.
- A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms.
- Experience with building RESTful API web services,
- 2 years or more of line management experience.
- Experience in the payments space and vendor integration with third party providers
- Experience with performance management.
- Experience developing technical teams to improve quality and output.
- A thorough understanding of software engineering practices and best practices, including source code control systems, the use of IDEs, and testing to
- Experience developing software for a highly-transactional retail online platform.
- An understanding of software deployment tools, deployment processes and best practices.
- Experience working with Kafka.
- Experience with Google Protocol Buffers and microservices.
- Experience with Python, Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux is advantageous
- 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).
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.
