Jobs at Takealot Group

Leads multiple QA teams and establishes scalable testing strategies, processes, automation roadmaps, regression practices, test coverage, and defect management. Partners with engineering and product stakeholders, mentors QA professionals, supports recruitment, monitors testing outcomes, and drives continuous quality improvement across unit, API, performance, system, UI, and service-based testing.

Own the Catalogue product roadmap, prioritize initiatives using data and commercial objectives, define technical requirements, translate them into user stories, and lead cross-functional projects from development through launch. Manage engineering backlogs, stakeholder communications, metrics, scalability, automation, compliance, and quality controls in a hybrid 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.

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.

Finance Administrator responsible for processing invoices, credit notes, customer payments, account maintenance, accounts receivable collections, reconciliations, inter-company recharges, month-end voucher invoicing, and customer query resolution. The role requires strong accuracy, organization, communication, problem-solving, Excel proficiency, and relevant accounting education, with 2–3 years of finance administration experience.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Develop and refine native Android storefront features, resolve bugs and crashes, brainstorm product improvements, and collaborate on design, code reviews, and estimation. The role requires strong software engineering fundamentals, Android lifecycle expertise, Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Android architecture components, asynchronous processing, platform fragmentation strategies, and Android UX knowledge. Candidates must reside in South Africa and work in a hybrid environment.

Develop and optimize scalable systems supporting parcel and food delivery across South Africa. Responsibilities include researching logistics-domain solutions, improving delivery processes with business stakeholders, building microservices and event-driven systems, working with open-source platforms, and owning solutions end to end. The role uses technologies including Scala, Play Framework, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Cassandra, and graph databases.

Develop and optimize scalable fulfilment systems using microservices, REST, and event-driven architecture. The role owns solutions end to end, improves delivery and operational processes, researches fulfilment-domain solutions, and collaborates with business stakeholders. Work involves open-source platforms, SQL databases, cloud technologies, and production software development supporting distribution centers, logistics operations, and customer deliveries across South Africa.