About the company

Discover Africa Group is an online travel agency based in Cape Town’s northern suburbs, operating two high-trafficked tourism websites:

• https://www.drivesouthafrica.com - South Africa's largest car rental aggregator and booking engine. E-commerce and lead-gen conversion model. Since 2002.
• https://www.discoverafrica.com - A safari tour operation that helps people discover Africa the way that suits them. Lead-gen conversion model. Since 2012.

Our dev team

Our in-house dev team of three developers works closely with our digital marketing and sales teams. The team’s mandate is to develop and maintain:

• New features for our client-facing websites
• Integrations with external systems
• New web applications
• Digital marketing assets, some past examples include:
  • https://www.discoverafrica.com/southafrica360/
  • https://www.discoverafrica.com/herdtracker/
  • http://googletrekkingwith.drivesouthafrica.com/
  • https://www.drivesouthafrica.com/child-visa-checklist/
  • DAGland - our user profiling web app that integrates with our marketing automation, CRM and reservations system

Our values

HATFEE: Honesty, Authenticity, Teamwork, Fun, Empathy and being Exceptional (we forked our values from Moz.com's TAGFEE.)

We're a company of ±30 at present, with a ~30% annual growth rate expected over the next year or two. We're small enough to care (and know everyone around you). Yet big enough to have a mature environment and treat people with respect.

We've been operating since 2002. Both co-founders are still directing the business.

Why work for us?

• Work with various technologies. We believe in “right tool for the job”.
• Relatively short project cycles (1-6 months) comprised of 1-2 week sprints.
• Work "client side". None of the chaos of agency life. We focus on quality work, not churning out as many billable hours as possible.
• Your work is highly used. Thousands of users engage with our front-end websites and back-end systems daily, so everything you build has meaning.
• Fair pay, for your valuable time.
• A pleasant and work-focussed environment.

Our Hiring Process

• 5-10 minute telephone call (Introduce company roadmap, base candidate skills, culture fit, etc)
• ±30 minute video call with our lead developer (technical discussion)
• Interview with team lead + founder (include problem solving tasks and deeper dive into technical skills)