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About Takealot

Address
12th Floor, Takealot Building, 10 Rua Vasco Da Gama Plain, Foreshore, Cape Town, South Africa, 8001
Company size
1000+ employees

Summary

Our Mission

takealot.com’s mission is to be the most customer-centric online shopping destination in Africa. Our company is built around the simple concept that the customer comes first.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard working people to join us. We offer a great working environment with even cooler people and a promise that you won’t be bored as long as you're up for a challenge and want to build something great.

Our Engineering Process

Our developers are involved in the full software life cycle, from the requirements gathering, design and development to ownership and maintenance. Our fast-paced agile deployment cycle means we can iterate quickly and deploy improvements for our customers on a daily basis. Developers have the opportunity to contribute throughout the company to make takealot.com even more awesome.

Values

Our Environment

  • takealot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa
  • We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve
  • We are short on ego and high on output
  • We are doers and not only thinkers, its all in the execution after all
  • We love what we do and what we are creating

Perks at Takealot

Fully remote working
A MacBook and peripherals
Birthday leave
8 days grad study leave or 12 days post-grad study leave
Have a drink with us at Drinkalot Thursdays (Cape Town HQ)
Free Coffee (at any of our offices)
Free parking, depending on availability (at any of our offices)
All permanent employees get the opportunity to purchase takealot products at staff rates
Online Learning: Available to all employees through MyAcademy/Degreed (Udacity, Udemy, Coursera, etc)
Mentorship Programme (Engineering & Product)

Tech Stack

application and data

Amazon S3
Amazon S3
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Objective-C
Objective-C
Javascript
Javascript
Python
Python
MySQL
MySQL
PHP
PHP
Scala
Scala
React
React
Redis
Redis
MongoDB
MongoDB
memcached
memcached
jQuery
jQuery
HTML5
HTML5
Django
Django
Bootstrap
Bootstrap
Google App Engine
Google App Engine
nginx
nginx
Kotlin
Kotlin
Kafka
Kafka
TypeScript
TypeScript
Kibana
Kibana
AI Platform
AI Platform
Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud Platform

utilities

Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
Google Analytics
Google Analytics
Looker
Looker
Qlik
Qlik

dev ops

GitHub
GitHub
Jenkins
Jenkins
Pingdom
Pingdom
Travis CI
Travis CI
Git
Git
Chef
Chef
Docker
Docker
Selenium
Selenium
Xcode
Xcode
Kubernetes
Kubernetes
SonarQube
SonarQube
Bash
Bash
Opsgenie
Opsgenie
Cloudflare
Cloudflare

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Slack
Slack
Zendesk
Zendesk
Greenhouse
Greenhouse
JIRA
JIRA
Confluence
Confluence

Office Photos

Welcome to Takealot!
The canteen.
Drinkalot -- Thursday fun where you can enjoy a beer or a Coke while hanging out with colleagues all over the business.
Motto.
Office photo
Coffee is compulsory.
Office photo
Office photo
Our space in the city.
We are engineering.
Inside the office.
Office photo
The weekly Thinkalot where engineers present projects or pose challenging problems.
Brainstorming? Designing? All of the above.