What we do

Cars.co.za grew quickly from a start-up company founded in Johannesburg in 2009, to become South Africa’s leading automotive platform, and one of the most respected, recognisable brands in the automotive market. Cars.co.za offers more vehicle listings, greater reach, and the biggest social media following (across all platforms) of any motoring classifieds or media brand in South Africa. We achieved this as bootstrapped business with a purposefully small, dedicated team that shares a vision of empowering consumers and transforming the local motor industry for the better.

Why Work For Us

Our tech team is small, for now, which means there is great scope for you to make your mark in how things are done within the team. Knowing your work will be used and seen by 2 million unique users. We love being part of the vibrant South African motor industry. While you don’t have to be a petrolhead to work here, you might very well become one!

Our Culture

We maintain a start-up culture and celebrate our employees, who work in a youthful and creative environment. We offer staff members the flexibility to achieve their professional goals and strive for an ideal work-life balance.

Our head office, in Bedfordview, is home to the majority of our 50+ employees, and has a vibrant feel. We even have an in-house barista and are preparing for the future of mobility, with the installation of our first electric-vehicle charge station in 2020.

We also have an office in Cape Town, predominantly for our creative/content team and we have recently started offering recruits in certain positions the option of working from the Mother City.

Team Values

• We value honesty
• We value our startup culture
• We value ambition
• We value innovation
• We value hard work
• We value teamwork
• We value ownership
• We value our community

Our Engineering Processes

We like to keep things simple. The projects we will be working on are decided upon on a strategic level, from there it's over to the development team to slot the work in to our backlog. When we are about to start work on a project we break it down into stories with the relevant team members, developers can then grab some stories and get started. We like to work on projects as a team if possible, in an effort to share any knowledge gained. We try to follow an Agile Kanban type methodology meaning we try to limit work in progress to maintain focus and keep planning to a minimum.

Testing and Automation

We have put emphasis on writing tests, automating builds and deployments. We are also moving in the direction of containerised deployment of our applications and managing our state separately. The more we move in this direction the more we can automate.

Our Hiring Process

Once we've connected, you'll be sent a short video interview to complete with a few questions - If this is successful we'll set up a face to face formal interview, most likely in our coffee shop (Best coffee ever).