Jobs at Takealot Group

Drafts and negotiates commercial contracts; advises on litigation, employment, franchise, banking, finance, intellectual property, and regulatory matters; conducts legal research and prepares opinions; manages the IP portfolio; supports legal training, stakeholder relationships, mentoring, and implementation of scalable legal software and AI solutions.

Develop and maintain scalable backend systems and search infrastructure serving millions of e-commerce customers. Responsibilities include designing architectures, building production software and APIs in Python, improving testing and engineering practices, resolving production incidents, supporting system reliability, collaborating on cross-functional requirements, and contributing to technical strategy and documentation. The role focuses on transitioning from Elasticsearch to Vertex AI Search, with opportunities to work across cloud, microservices, messaging, containerization, and distributed systems.

Manages a fulfillment engineering support team, develops engineers, prioritizes commitments, resolves operational issues, and drives productivity and operational excellence. The role includes stakeholder management, architectural planning, incident analysis, metrics-based improvement initiatives, and hands-on support across e-commerce fulfillment systems and cloud technologies.

Processes payroll and HR administration, including employee onboarding, profile updates, benefits, terminations, records, payroll queries, reconciliations, and reporting. The role coordinates with benefits providers, supports HR projects and training, maintains confidentiality, and ensures accurate, timely processing in compliance with South African payroll legislation.

Own and deliver machine learning product roadmaps across merchant, marketplace, supply chain, and logistics domains. Partner with business stakeholders and machine learning engineers to identify opportunities, define requirements, prioritize initiatives, establish success metrics, and deliver projects on schedule. Translate technical ML concepts for business audiences, use quantitative and qualitative data to guide decisions, and balance long-term product strategy with iterative improvements.

Develop, evaluate, and productionize machine learning models for a large-scale e-commerce platform. Responsibilities include analyzing customer data, building scalable ML pipelines, deploying models to production, collaborating through design and code reviews, solving business use cases, and staying current with machine learning advancements.

Design, architect, and build robust software solutions for e-commerce logistics. Develop new features, improve existing systems, solve complex problems at scale, and support reliable 24/7 operations through rotational after-hours support. Collaborate with teams and business users, apply software engineering best practices, stay current with technology, and contribute to a world-class engineering culture.

Develop, test, maintain, and modernize a large-scale Swift and SwiftUI iOS e-commerce application. Responsibilities include architecting features, integrating RESTful APIs, monitoring performance, ensuring application stability and security, collaborating across design and engineering teams, participating in Agile ceremonies, and publishing releases to the Apple App Store. The role also involves CI/CD, testing, code quality, and collaboration with QA.

Leads global aggregator partnerships for Takealot’s cross-border marketplace. Responsibilities include identifying and negotiating with aggregator platforms, executing partner onboarding and co-marketing programs, managing seller referral pipelines, ensuring SARS VAT and customs compliance, monitoring partner KPIs, and conducting business reviews. The role requires strong commercial partnership skills, cross-border e-commerce knowledge, senior stakeholder management, and willingness to travel domestically and internationally.

Manage strategic marketplace seller accounts, driving sales growth, selection expansion, retention, promotions, and operational improvements. Build executive relationships, analyze seller metrics, develop account targets and business plans, identify growth opportunities, and recommend solutions to seller-level issues. Collaborate with merchandising, product, supply chain, catalogue, and seller teams while contributing to marketplace initiatives and coaching sales colleagues.

Leads architecture and delivery of highly scalable, available, secure distributed systems across the Takealot Group. Drives greenfield engineering initiatives, evaluates emerging technologies, solves complex business and supply-chain problems, establishes technical standards, and influences executive strategy. The role also mentors senior engineers, leads cross-functional technical projects, and improves platform reliability, performance, and developer productivity.

Handles seller and customer queries through tickets and phone calls, escalates issues, collaborates with internal stakeholders, performs data-capturing and administrative tasks, and recommends marketplace process and system improvements. The role requires strong customer service, communication, prioritization, organization, problem-solving, analytical thinking, and adaptability in a fast-paced e-commerce environment.

Owns the operating framework for Takealot’s cross-border commerce channel, covering international seller onboarding, fulfillment, logistics, inventory, product quality, seller communications, compliance, performance management, reporting, and continuous improvement. The role coordinates warehouse, marketplace, technology, finance, legal, and logistics teams; defines standards and SLAs; monitors operational performance; and drives scalable solutions for international sellers and South African customers.

Administer and support Oracle WMS and related distribution-center systems. Responsibilities include user access management, troubleshooting integrations and WCS issues, coordinating with vendors and IT, conducting audits, supporting upgrades and testing, maintaining operational processes and training schedules, analyzing system logs, and developing reports and dashboards for operations management.

Design, develop, and maintain secure, scalable APIs and distributed backend systems serving millions of users. Build stateless architectures, event-driven services, containerized microservices, and cloud-native solutions. Collaborate in cross-functional engineering teams, solve complex technical problems, and contribute to reliable, efficient ecommerce systems. The role requires strong Python and Unix/Linux expertise, computer science fundamentals, and experience with databases, event streaming, cloud platforms, and container orchestration.

Develop and architect high-scale e-commerce software using Python, REST, and RPC APIs. Responsibilities include writing production code, improving testing and engineering practices, supporting production systems through incident response and rotational after-hours support, resolving complex cross-team issues, contributing to architecture decisions, and collaborating with stakeholders. The role also involves mentoring through knowledge sharing and improving engineering processes, documentation, and system reliability.

Deploys, operates, secures, and optimizes MySQL and PostgreSQL databases supporting high-scale e-commerce applications. Responsibilities include query tuning, schema design, backups, replication, monitoring, disaster recovery, cloud infrastructure, database architecture, incident resolution, and operational improvements. The role collaborates with engineering and infrastructure teams, mentors junior DBAs, contributes to technical roadmaps, and ensures database performance, integrity, resilience, and compliance.

Leads the cross-border seller sales organization, including team management, international seller acquisition strategy, pipeline forecasting, quota setting, sales process development, recruitment, and executive reporting. The role owns the seller acquisition funnel, coaches sales managers, collaborates with onboarding, legal, compliance, and partnerships teams, and uses market insights to improve seller conversion and revenue growth.

Own the order fulfilment product portfolio, roadmap, backlog, and feature execution from discovery through launch. Define specifications, success metrics, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements while coordinating product, UX, engineering, logistics, restaurant, driver, support, and operations teams. Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to optimize delivery performance, conduct UAT, manage stakeholder relationships and integrations, and improve customer fulfilment experiences.

Develop and optimize scalable parcel and food delivery systems across South Africa. The role involves designing microservices and event-driven solutions, researching logistics technologies, improving delivery processes with business stakeholders, working primarily with open-source platforms, and owning solutions end to end. Candidates will write robust production code, solve complex logistics problems, communicate effectively, and contribute to a collaborative, continuously improving engineering team.