Web Frontend Engineer

About the role

Mr D, a division of takealot.com, is looking for highly talented Web Frontend Engineers to join our team.

Think you've been challenged before? Think again!

- Scale: Show the millions of Mr D customers 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 Takealot Group: takealot.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here's your chance.

This position reports to the Web Development Manager.

Your Role:

- Join our web development team responsible for maintaining and developing multiple production applications using modern Angular and SvelteKit

- Write performant, optimized code that scales with our growing user base

- Contribute to automated testing efforts to reduce regression bugs and improve coverage

- Participate in (and invite!) code reviews to maintain high code quality standards

- Collaborate with Project Managers, UX Designers, and QA teams on feature delivery

- Debug complex issues across the frontend/backend boundary

- Deploy features through our CI/CD pipeline (QA → Pre-Production → Production)

- Leverage AI tools (LLMs, GitHub Copilot, custom agents) to accelerate development and help shape our shift toward AI-assisted workflows

- Help establish development processes that stick - particularly around code review

- Provide accurate estimates and deliver on commitments

Skills we need:

Experience:

- A minimum of 3-4 years of focused, continuous experience in JavaScript or similar languages

Core Technical Skills:

- JavaScript fundamentals - Strong grasp of modern JavaScript (ES6+)

- TypeScript - Adding well-defined types; understanding that well-typed code helps everyone who works with it later

- Node.js - Backend experience (we use it in all our websites)

- CSS mastery - Understanding how CSS works, using defined selectors appropriately, and avoiding unnecessary classes

- DOM understanding - How events traverse, how the browser works

- API integration - Understanding CORS, debugging failed requests, and identifying whether issues are frontend or backend

- Testing philosophy - Understanding why to write tests, what to test, and which type of test to write

- Git proficiency - Making decisions that avoid difficult conflicts, understanding branching strategies like Gitflow

- Performance optimization - Writing optimized, performant code as a default practice

- Responsive design - Understanding and implementing responsive layouts

- AI collaboration - Ability to converse effectively with LLMs and leverage AI tools in development

- Estimation skills - Understanding the importance of good estimates and the ability to provide them