Our client, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for highly talented Software Development Engineers with strong Frontend skills, to join their team in Cape Town, Stellenbosch or Johannesburg.

About the position:

• You'll have the choice of one two new exciting development teams.
• The teams will focus on building frontends for internal users, such as our Retail and Customer Service teams.
• The frontend will be utilizing Javascript (React/Angular) and the backend Python.
• The teams collaborate often with our other engineering teams, yet the business area and technological focus differs widely.
• One of the teams will be in Cape Town, the other in our Stellenbosch offices.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Design and build solutions to assist our business users, and improve customer experience
• Architect and design solutions with fellow team members
• Researching how solutions are being implemented locally and internationally
• Applying creative problem solving to develop solutions
• Making the client the best place to shop at
• Making the client the best place to work

Skills required:

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
• Ability to disaggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problems
• Solid quantitative skills
• 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

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required, with a major in a quantitative subject
• 2 years of experience in an software engineering role

The Environment:

• Employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of the company being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
• We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
• We are short on ego and high on output.
• We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all.
• We love what we do and what we are creating.

Personal attributes

• We seek to employ Exceptional Minds, people who are:
  • Experts at DOING, they can not only design but also execute;
  • Analytical, able to use data to make decisions.
  • Competitive.
  • Curious. Always questioning the status quo;
  • Not averse to risk;
  • Business smart. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
  • Self-directed, taking action based on own initiative;
  • Collaborative.
  • Thorough;
  • User focused, always trying to understand a product from the users perspective;
  • Able to communicate clearly and not afraid to voice an opinion, no matter how unpopular.

The company

• We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hardworking people to join us.
• We offer market related benefits, a great work environment and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

General:

• While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 15 days please consider your application as unsuccessful.
• In keeping with our client’s employment equity requirements, only South African citizens will be considered.
• Please include your current salary and salary expectations.