Description
Mr D, a division of takealot.com, is looking for highly talented Web Frontend Engineers to join our team.
Think you've been challenged before? Think again!
- Scale: Show the millions of Mr D customers what you can do
- Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and upskill in record time.
- Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here's your chance.
This position reports to the Web Development Manager.
Your Role:
- Join our web development team responsible for maintaining and developing multiple production applications using modern Angular and SvelteKit
- Write performant, optimized code that scales with our growing user base
- Contribute to automated testing efforts to reduce regression bugs and improve coverage
- Participate in (and invite!) code reviews to maintain high code quality standards
- Collaborate with Project Managers, UX Designers, and QA teams on feature delivery
- Debug complex issues across the frontend/backend boundary
- Deploy features through our CI/CD pipeline (QA → Pre-Production → Production)
- Leverage AI tools (LLMs, GitHub Copilot, custom agents) to accelerate development and help shape our shift toward AI-assisted workflows
- Help establish development processes that stick - particularly around code review
- Provide accurate estimates and deliver on commitments
Skills we need:
Experience:
- A minimum of 3-4 years of focused, continuous experience in JavaScript or similar languages
Core Technical Skills:
- JavaScript fundamentals - Strong grasp of modern JavaScript (ES6+)
- TypeScript - Adding well-defined types; understanding that well-typed code helps everyone who works with it later
- Node.js - Backend experience (we use it in all our websites)
- CSS mastery - Understanding how CSS works, using defined selectors appropriately, and avoiding unnecessary classes
- DOM understanding - How events traverse, how the browser works
- API integration - Understanding CORS, debugging failed requests, and identifying whether issues are frontend or backend
- Testing philosophy - Understanding why to write tests, what to test, and which type of test to write
- Git proficiency - Making decisions that avoid difficult conflicts, understanding branching strategies like Gitflow
- Performance optimization - Writing optimized, performant code as a default practice
- Responsive design - Understanding and implementing responsive layouts
- AI collaboration - Ability to converse effectively with LLMs and leverage AI tools in development
- Estimation skills - Understanding the importance of good estimates and the ability to provide them
Nice to have experience:
- Experience with modern Angular or SvelteKit (or genuine interest in learning them for good reasons)
- Express.js or similar Node frameworks - Experience building backend APIs
- Containerization understanding - Basic Docker concepts, understanding multi-platform builds
- Web services - Understanding how a request travels, how load balancers and reverse proxies affect HTTP requests
- Knowledge of Playwright or Selenium for E2E testing
- Team-oriented - Proactively inviting peers to review your code
- Quality-focused - Keeping overall team output in mind (speed AND quality)
- Agile/Scrum familiarity
- gRPC / Protocol Buffers
- GitHub Actions knowledge
- AWS services experience (S3, ECR, CloudFront, etc.)
- Test-Driven Development (TDD) practice
Let's talk about life @ Mr D:
- The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
- No doors: We aren't fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab, and make something great.
- Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? We offer the best of both worlds.
- Mentorship programme: We aren't kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now's your chance to be one of the best by learning from the best.
- Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Upskill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera, and more.
- Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds in the takealot group during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
- Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it.
- Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you'll work on the latest tech, off the latest tech.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere.
- Tech stack (for days): Angular, SvelteKit, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, AWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, and all things AI-assisted development. If you build it, they will come.
- Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).
Like what you see? If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!
Mr D is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
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