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About Zando

Address
1st Floor, 97 Durham Avenue, Salt River, 7925
Company size
51-200 employees

Summary

What we do:

Zando was founded by Rocket Internet AG in 2012 and since then has grown exponentially to become South Africa’s biggest online fashion store. Zando forms part of the Jumia Group, Africa’s leading digital player with a presence in 14 countries spanning across 6 Africa regions. Jumia’s mission is to improve the quality of everyday life in Africa by leveraging technology to deliver innovative, convenient and affordable online services to consumers, while helping businesses grow as they use our platform to reach and serve consumers. Our passion for customer experience, knowledge in eCommerce as well as our drive to innovate are the basis for our success that we share with investors such as MTN, Milicom, Goldman Sachs and Orange

Why Work For Us:

  • Part of a bigger group allowing us to benefit from international best coding (and business) practices
  • Driven and agile collaborative team environment.
  • Major focus on innovation and challenging the status quo.
  • Flat structure where change can really happen.
  • Inclusive culture where Devs are involved in projects from the beginning.
  • Focus on growing coding skills and business acumen.
  • Anyone can make a big difference in our organization.
  • We are a knowledge sharing and ideas generation environment, allowing all Devs to learn and grow
  • No deployments past 3:30pm week days and none on Fridays!!!

Our Engineering Processes:

  • Agile environment, 1 week sprints.
  • Automated deployments.
  • In-depth code-reviews for defect-free deployments.
  • High visibility of systems throughout the team.
  • Continuously looking for new techniques.

Our Hiring Process:

  • First step is a virtual chat with our Head of IT and HR
  • Second step is a take home tech assessment
  • Third step is psych assessments and possibly a meet and greet with our MD

Perks at Zando

Start-up culture
Passionate People
Wellness Days
Regular Team Builds
Training and Mentoring
Flexi-Hours
Free & unlimited coffee
Medical Aid & Retirement Annuity Contributions
International travel to our tech hub
Hybrid Environment
Casual dress code

Tech Stack

application and data

AngularJS
AngularJS
Sass
Sass
Laravel
Laravel
Objective-C
Objective-C
Javascript
Javascript
MySQL
MySQL
PHP
PHP
Swift
Swift
Redis
Redis
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ
memcached
memcached
jQuery
jQuery
HTML5
HTML5
Bootstrap
Bootstrap
nginx
nginx
Vue.js
Vue.js

utilities

Google Analytics
Google Analytics

dev ops

Bower
Bower
GitHub
GitHub
Jenkins
Jenkins
Git
Git
Docker
Docker
Puppet
Puppet
Android Studio
Android Studio
New Relic
New Relic
npm
npm
Xcode
Xcode

business tool

Google Apps
Google Apps
Trello
Trello

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