About Us:

Superbalist is South Africa’s highest rated fashion e-tailer with a steadfast commitment to

being customer led, data backed and fashion forward. Our award-winning platform connects

with millions of customers every month driving delight from the superior browsing

experience to the unboxing and beyond. We’re now looking for talented and dynamic thinkers

that will help take us to the next level of customer experience

We are looking for candidates who have a real passion for technology, who are constantly

exploring, learning and improving their skills. We’re a hyper growth company looking for

smart, innovative, autonomous, and creative people to join us!

We think big, and follow through!

● Scale: Over 900,000 happy shoppers shop online on Superbalist. Show them 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 e-commerce space. We like to

promote from within: Here’s your chance.

Who’s who

This position reports to an Engineering Manager.

The high level

● Writes code & tests and pushes to production independently.

● Reviews code, providing valuable improvements for the team.

● Designs system-level code and delivers significant team-level projects.

● Creates and executes unit test plans.

● Develops detailed technical analysis and design specifications based on functional

requirements.

● Investigates and resolve defects.

● Participates in functional and technical specification reviews.

● Participates in creating and executing integration-level test plans.

● Monitor services and systems within our infrastructure.

● Works effectively across multiple teams to deliver large projects.

● Mentors more junior developers.

● Continuously improve the architecture methodologies and find ways to improve code

design, system performance, high scalability, and security vulnerabilities.

The skills we need

● Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

● Strong drive for results.

● Be comfortable working within a team.

● Good communication skills.

● Build and maintain relationships.

Your qualifications & experience

● Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.

● 3-5 years in professional software development.

● Proven mastery of at least one OO programming language.

● In-depth knowledge of networking, databases, data structures, algorithms, cloud

computing, security, code design, distributed systems and testing.

● Understands how to build solutions at scale without increasing technical debt.

● In-depth understanding of coding best practices, system scalability, security and

performance tuning.

● Solid experience in relational databases.

● Solid experience in issue tracking systems.

Areas of mastery

● PHP

● Laravel

● Web Fundamentals

Bonus points

● Python

● Python task queues (Celery)

● A Javascript framework (Node.js, Nuxt.js, Vue.js)

● Elastic Search

● MySQL

● Google BigQuery

● Linux fundamentals

● Docker / Kubernetes

● Event driven architectures (PubSub/Kafka)

● Experience with e-commerce based applications

Our ideal candidates have a passion for technology, they are constantly exploring, learning,

and improving their skills. They know where to apply what they have learned and they share

their knowledge freely. We embrace fit-for-purpose technology, meaning we have a diverse

stack. Just like our culture, we obsess about building systems that are elegant, performant,

reliable, and scalable. Our teams are autonomous, collaborative units that share a business

and engineering vision, but have the freedom to tweak and influence how they go about their

mission.

We are looking for candidates who are self-starters and are comfortable taking ownership

over assigned projects while working collaboratively in a team environment. The candidate

will need to work with colleagues at all levels of the organisation and must be comfortable

gathering and organising information that translates into usable requirements.

Let’s talk about life @ Superbalist

● 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. Collab and

make something great.

● Remote work: Love water cooler chats and working from home? Superbalist.com

offers the best of both worlds.

● Hat day: Take a day every two weeks to go learn something new, or work on a proof

of concept; come up with a creative solution for a business or technical challenge!

● Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at Superbalist.com during

regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think

lunch, think good times).

● Staff discount. The latest fashion at even better prices. What more could you ask

for?

● Birthday leave: Enjoy your mandatory fun day off - you deserve it!

● Right tools, right job: Mac, Windows, Linux, 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): Vue.js, Python, PHP, Node.js, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud,

Kubernetes, PubSub, and all things machine learning. If you build it, they will come.

● Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to).