Senior Software Engineer (Frontend JavaScript, Customer-Facing) at takealot.com December, 2023

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

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

Qualifications & Experience:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering and a minimum of 5 years experience as a Front-End Developer writing code is required.
  • If a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or an Advanced Diploma (in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering), an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of experience as a Front-End
  • Developer writing code.
  • Very proficient in coding plain JavaScript from scratch 
  • Understands inheritance in JavaScript and advanced JavaScript techniques
  • Appreciation and understanding of object-oriented programming concepts
  • Solid experience writing performant front-end javascript code based on MVC JavaScript Frameworks (React is preferred, but AngularJS, Vue, etc. are a good start)
  • Experience in HTML5, CSS3 and taking high definition UI & UX designs and producing fast efficient frontend code 
  • Good understanding of asynchronous request handling.
  • Knowledge and experience in cross-browser and cross-device compatible solutions including mobile
  • Advanced Experience with CSS pre-compilers such as Less, Sass & SCSS
  • You should love doing this kind of stuff! Not afraid to try new things just to see how they work.  
  • Able to evaluate and learn new libraries, frameworks, and concepts to validate whether they might be of value to the team
  • Experience using a source control solution such as Git
  • Experience with network requests to RESTful APIs using best practice and well-known libraries
  • Experience writing front-end unit tests
  • Worked within an agile development team
  • Experience producing responsive html designs

The skills we need:

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

Additional Desirable Skills: 

  • PHP experience is a bonus.
  • Docker experience
  • Kubernetes experience
  • React JS experience highly desirable
  • Full stack experience of any sort is advantageous
  • Experience working with unit test frameworks
  • Experience with writing UI Automation scripts using Robot Framework.
  • Experience developing eCommerce sites for retail
  • Experience working with software development tools including Git, Jira and Confluence/Notion.

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