Top Recruitment

Software Engineer

One of South Africa’s TOP online retailers is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer to join their young, dynamic, and hyper-growth team. Are you smart, creative, and hard-working and want to join an awesome working environment in a "NEVER TO BE BORED" team? Does challenges and building something great interest you?

Duties & Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include the following:

• Design and build solutions to assist business users and improve customer experience.
• Architect and design solutions with your team.
• Keep up to date with technology trends, both locally and internationally.
• Apply creative thought processes to solve complex challenges at scale.
• Strong focus on making them the best place to shop at; a happy customer is a repeat customer.
• Drive for excellence to help foster a world-class engineering team.
• You will do Python Development – Yes, they will teach you – therefore you don’t have to know Python.

Attributes required:

• 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.
• 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.

Desired Experience & Qualification

• Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years experience in a software development role (Any Object-Oriented Software Development).
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• A thorough understanding of computer science fundamentals, including object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.

Experience in the following will be advantageous:

• GitHub, Travis CI, Jenkins.
• Amazon EC2, Amazon S3.

The Environment

• Employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun, and have the shared ambition of being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• Have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and they are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where to improve.
• They are short on ego and high on output.
• Doers and not only thinkers; it’s all in the execution after all.
• Love what they do and what they are creating.
• Join this team with your extraordinary mind and explore yourself.