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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.

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.

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.