Mr D, a division of takealot.com, is looking for a highly talented Python Software Engineer to join our team in Cape Town.
As a Python Software Engineer, you will help to architect, implement, support, and maintain scalable services in a heterogeneous environment. You will be able to influence both business and architectural decisions while working on end-to-end technology solutions.
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 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:
- Build scalable software systems supporting our growing business and customers.
- Work closely with other engineers, professional services teams, and product managers.
- Participate/lead architecture proposals for your division's domain
- Develop high-quality production code for work of high complexity and scale
- Champion, challenge, and iterate on best practices within engineering
- Design solutions for complex problems with difficult decision trade-offs, typically system- or domain-wide
- Analyse and understand business requirements and OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), and produce technical specifications that meet these requirements
- Assist the product teams in helping to determine priorities for technical projects
- Support, challenge existing, and define new engineering processes and directives
- Lead interviews and assess potential engineering candidates for skills and fit
- Mentor, coach, and share knowledge with your peers through blog posts, tech talks, and workshops across engineering
- Add value to the team and business.
- Continuously learn and improve your knowledge and the deliverables.
Skills we need:
- Thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, OO concepts, data structures, and algorithms.
- Ability to design and maintain secure and scalable APIs.
- Experience in developing distributed backend systems and stateless architectures.
- Hands-on experience with *nix and Python.
- Experience with event streaming, relational & non-relational datastores, containerization, and cloud service providers.
- Passion for learning new skills and appreciation to invent and simplify.
Nice to have experience:
- AWS Cloud technologies.
- GIT version control.
- PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic, Redis.
- Kafka.
- Docker, Kubernetes
Qualifications and experience:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- For a mid-level software engineer role, a minimum of 2 to 3 years of Software Development experience is required.
- For a senior software engineer role, a minimum of 5 years of Software Development experience is required.
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? Upskill 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: A Mac laptop, 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): 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