Jobs at Takealot Group

Own strategic analysis and insights for Corporate FP&A, including profitability analysis, management reporting, forecasting, budgeting, strategic modeling, automation, and CFO/CEO decision support. Partner with BI, IT, Tech, and Product to improve data workflows and analytical processes. Mentor junior analysts and deliver actionable recommendations across retail and marketplace business units.

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.

Own the catalogue management product portfolio, including roadmap, backlog prioritization, partner onboarding, catalogue quality, and feature execution. Translate business needs into technical requirements, user stories, specifications, and acceptance criteria. Lead cross-functional development from discovery through launch, manage engineering prioritization, conduct UAT, and monitor success metrics. Collaborate with UX, engineering, operations, partner teams, and stakeholders to improve catalogue management and partner experience.

Leads corporate communications and reputation strategy across the Takealot Group, including corporate narrative, media relations, executive communications, thought leadership, crisis and issues management, public policy communications, social-impact storytelling, and communications governance. Builds reputation intelligence capabilities, advises senior executives, coordinates group and business-unit communications, manages teams, agencies, budgets, and uses AI responsibly for monitoring, research, and drafting.

Handles data subject requests under POPI, including eligibility checks, escalation, stakeholder coordination, SLA adherence, complaints handling, internal compliance audits, policy and SOP reviews, and regulatory risk management. The role supports the Information Officer, identifies data subject information, and contributes to process and system improvements in an e-commerce environment.

Leads three engineering teams responsible for fulfilment systems spanning warehouse management, routing, courier allocation, and client onboarding. Owns technical strategy, architecture, reliability, security, scalability, performance, budgets, operational excellence, and project delivery. Builds and retains engineering teams, develops managers and engineers, drives hiring and career development, manages roadmaps and risks, and partners with senior fulfilment, logistics, supply chain, operations, QA, and business stakeholders.

Owns corporate FP&A reporting infrastructure, month-end reporting, data governance, and automation across business units. Leads the reporting automation roadmap using SQL, Looker, Excel, Apps Script, and AI tools; partners with BI, IT, Tech, and Product on data projects; ensures accurate and timely management reporting; and supervises a Junior Finance Analyst. The role also supports planning, forecasting, strategic analysis, and senior stakeholder reporting.

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.

Leads the strategic vision, growth, marketing, operations, and profitability of TakealotMORE, a subscription loyalty program. Owns P&L, membership growth, retention, customer engagement, partnerships, and cross-platform adoption across Takealot.com and Mr D. Collaborates with marketing, product, engineering, analytics, finance, customer service, and external partners to improve program value, personalization, customer experience, and commercial performance.

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.

Principal Software Engineer responsible for designing, developing, optimizing, and owning systems supporting parcel and food delivery across South Africa. The role involves solving logistics and scalability challenges using microservices, event-driven architecture, graph databases, and cloud technologies. Responsibilities include researching solutions, improving delivery processes, collaborating with business stakeholders, and working predominantly with open-source platforms while mentoring and contributing to the engineering team.

Design, develop, and refine iOS features for iPhone and iPad applications. Resolve bugs and crashes, collaborate on technical design, code reviews, estimation, and feature ideation. The role requires strong Swift, SwiftUI, UIKit, asynchronous programming, layout, testing, and REST API experience, with responsibility for delivering high-quality software in a fast-paced e-commerce environment.

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.

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.