| Company |
Takealot.com |
| Job title |
Software Engineer (Python) |
| Job location |
South Africa |
| Type |
Full Time |
Responsibilities:
- 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, a happy customer is a repeat customer
- Drive for excellence, to help foster a world-class engineering team
Requirements & Skills:
- 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
