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Entelect City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Elevate your career at Entelect, where we prioritise people and nurture a culture of growth, collaboration, and innovation. Join a dynamic, multidisciplinary environment that encourages versatility, and provides individual attention to career development, including intentional and regular one-on-ones with leadership. Tackle complex challenges and make a meaningful impact alongside passionate professionals who inspire and support each other.

• Delivery:
  • Leveraging your expertise to develop world-class web and mobile applications for leading organisations in South Africa.
  • Exploring methods to enhance product quality through containerisation and continuous integration, fostering a streamlined DevOps culture.
  • Engaging in various stages of the SDLC, from system design to analysis, scoping, and estimation.
  • Researching innovative technologies and implementing them in projects to drive innovation.
• People:
  • Demonstrating maturity, motivation, and leadership in the workplace.
  • Championing change within the team and fostering a collaborative culture.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to tackle complex business challenges, driving continuous improvement.
  • Mentoring and nurturing colleagues to uphold standards of excellence and accountability.
• Customer:
  • Building strong relationships and understanding customer needs to deliver impactful solutions.
  • Managing customer expectations and identifying opportunities for service improvements.
  • Ensuring compliance with data security and industry regulations.

• A bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, or related fields.
• Minimum 6 years’ experience as a software engineer in an enterprise environment.
• Proficiency in software engineering fundamentals and commitment to clean code and best practices.
• Mastery of various technologies with the agility to adapt to new frameworks.
• Ability to architect and structure small projects within an enterprise environment.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with a drive for continual improvement.
• Hybrid working model: working from the office on average 2 – 3 times per week.
• A strong customer-facing ability.
• Flexibility to work across a variety of different environments and tooling.

• A competitive compensation package with twice-yearly salary increases and guaranteed bonuses.
• Tenure-based loyalty leave.
• Access to employee wellness programs and rewards for professional development.
• Commission incentives for successful business development leads and employee referrals.
• Hands-on support from leadership through regular one on ones and quarterly reviews.
• Continuous development programs offering training in leadership and technical skills.
• Exposure to enterprise projects across multiple domains and problem spaces for South Africa’s most esteemed organisations.

• Frontend techs: Angular, React, Vue.js
• Backend techs: .NET, Java, Python
• Frameworks: Express, NextJS
• Build tools: Webpack, Grunt, Gulp
• Package management: NPM
• Non-relational databases: MongoDB

• The first step is an initial conversation with our talent team to get to know you better and introduce you to Entelect and all that we have to offer.
• The next step will be a 1.5-hour in-person technical interview at one of our offices where you will meet some of our leadership team.
• Finally, if we are both aligned, we wrap up the process with salary discussions and present you with an offer of employment.

Not quite ready but eager to learn more? Click the apply button and select, “I’m not ready but keen to explore my options” on form to set up an exploratory chat. Our team understands that good things take time and are happy to wait until that time is right for you.

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering, Information Technology, and Consulting

• Software Development

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We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer who’s ready to bring technical leadership, product thinking, and good vibes to our team. You’ll help shape the architecture, mentor less experienced engineers, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver products people actually want to use.

You're a doer, a problem-solver, and someone who can turn complex challenges into elegant code. You’re also a great human — humble, curious, and great to work with.

What You’ll Do:

• Providing engineering expertise and experience as a member of a cross functional delivery team, working alongside other engineers, designers, QA, delivery lead and a tech lead
• Employ modern development practices to ship high-quality software
• Ability to adapt to new languages and frameworks
• Choosing the right technology for the job, striving for simplicity
• Starting or continuing your journey as a line-manager
• Coach & support peers
• Providing support for digital products once they are live (depending on client needs)

You’ll Thrive Here If You.

• Front-end web technologies (e.g. JavaScript, Typescript, CSS, HTML, etc.)
• Front-end web frameworks (e.g. React, Vue.Js, etc.)
• Back-end technologies (e.g. Node.js, Go, Rust, etc.)
• Relational and non-relational databases (e.g. ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL,
• System architecture approaches (e.g. microservices, event sourcing, serverless, CQRS)
• Virtualisation and orchestration tools (e.g. VMs, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.) and

infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi)

• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, etc.)
• Effective source-control management using Git
• Test automation following Test Driven Development practices including unit testing, API testing, and end-to-end testing

Reference Number for this position is GZ60466 which is a contract position based in Cape Town offering a cost to company salary of R1000K per annum negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on or call him on to discuss this and other opportunities.

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Company Description

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Role Description

This is a full-time remote role for a JavaScript Developer. The JavaScript Developer will be responsible for developing, testing, and maintaining web applications using JavaScript. Day-to-day tasks include writing clean and efficient code, collaborating with other developers and designers, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring web applications are responsive and performant. The JavaScript Developer will also participate in code reviews and stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies.

Qualifications

• Proficiency in JavaScript, including frameworks such as React, Angular, or
• Experience with HTML, CSS, and other front-end technologies
• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Experience with version control systems, such as Git, is a plus
• Familiarity with back-end technologies and databases is a bonus

Are you a Full stack wizard who’s tired of boring banking tech? Ready to shake up finance with clean code, bold ideas, and modern tools? Well, we are calling and we’re not your typical bank. We’re about simplicity, people, and building solutions that matter.

We're on the hunt for a Full stack Software Engineer who knows their way around the frontend, backend, cloud, and everything in between.

Requirements:

• A relevant tertiary qualification in Information Technology (Preferred)
• Grade 12 National Certificate (Minimum)AWS Certified
• 7+ years’ proven experience in both front- and back-end software development,
• project delivery and implementation (in relevant development
• technologies/language). Experience with modern front-end and back-end frameworks and technologies
• Demonstrable hands-on experience with AWS
• Demonstrable hands-on experience with Amazon Connect (Preferred)
• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, web frameworks e.g. ReactJS
• Experience with CSS (or CSS Frameworks)
• Basic familiarity with REST API’s
• Database design, optimisation and experience e.g. PostgreSQL, MySQL
• Microservices Architecture (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes)
• EC2, S3, RDS, Lambada, API Gateway, IAM, SNS and CloudWatch
• Firm Understanding of CI/CD

Reference Number for this position is GZ60775 which is a permanent hybrid position based in Cape Town offering a cost to company salary of R1.0m PA negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Garth on or call him on to discuss this and other opportunities.

Are you ready for a change of scenery? The E-Merge IT recruitment is a specialist niche recruitment agency. We offer our candidates options so that we can successfully place the right developers with the right companies in the right roles. Check out the E-Merge website for more great positions.

Do you have a friend who is a developer or technology specialist? We pay cash for successful referrals!

Job Role: Node JS/Typescript Developers with AI

Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

Role Type: Contract

Mode: Hybrid

• Experience:
  6+ years
• These are some of our
  frontline innovation projects (chat agents, internal automation tooling)
• We need a few strong seniors here with
  strong production delivery and operational experience.
• We work with
  Azure, OpenAI integrations and a mix of models.
• Mandatory:
  Experience in
  distributed microservice environments, data stores, API integrations. Ideally nodejs.
• Bonus is experience with
  any AI integrations, react, full stack

Takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Engineer (Frontend JavaScript, Customer-Facing) to join our team.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us!

The position reports to the Engineering Manager. We’re seeking a frontend-focused engineer who can design, develop, and refine customer-facing features with performance in mind, collaborate with designers, QA, and back-end developers, and integrate with APIs.

• Help design, develop and refine new features
• Locate and resolve bugs and crashes
• Brainstorm new ideas and concepts
• Work with teammates on design, code reviews, and estimation
• Implement front-end JavaScript coding at an advanced level with focus on performance, maintainability and testable code
• Create modules and components to assemble a functional site
• Collaborate with designers, QA Analysts and back-end developers, and integrate with APIs using standard methods

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in Information Systems, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering and a minimum of 5 years experience as a Front-End Developer writing advanced JavaScript code
• Equivalent experience: minimum of 8 years in Front-End development with advanced JavaScript code if no degree is held
• Very proficient in coding plain JavaScript from scratch
• Understanding of inheritance in JavaScript and advanced techniques
• Solid experience writing performant front-end JavaScript code based on MVC frameworks (React preferred; AngularJS, Vue, etc. are acceptable)
• Experience with HTML5, CSS3 and translating UI/UX designs into fast, efficient frontend code
• Advanced experience with CSS pre‑processors (Less, Sass, SCSS) and responsive HTML design
• Experience with asynchronous request handling; cross-browser and cross-device compatibility; OO programming concepts
• Ability to evaluate and learn new libraries, frameworks, and concepts; experience with Git and RESTful APIs; front-end unit testing; agile team experience

• Docker and Kubernetes experience
• React JS and Next.js experience
• Full stack experience; experience with unit test frameworks
• UI automation scripting experience (Robot Framework)
• Experience developing eCommerce sites for retail
• Experience with tools like Git, Jira, Confluence/Notion

• The power is in your hands: market-related total remuneration with flexibility
• No doors: collaborative, open environment
• Remote/hybrid working model
• Mentorship and ongoing learning opportunities
• Tech community access, online learning, and professional growth
• Regular social events and staff discounts
• Birthday leave and flexible tooling choices
• Confidential counselling, legal support and financial guidance, free anytime
• Free parking

Equal Opportunity Statement: Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.

Biomesight Somerset West, Western Cape, South Africa

Biomesight is an AI-driven wellness analytics platform with a primary focus on the gut microbiome as a leading indicator of wellness.

This is a hybrid role for a Fullstack Software Engineer at Biomesight. The successful candidate will join a small development team. Role will involve working closely with team members in the UK, South Africa and Canada.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
• At least 2-5 years experience of working as a full stack engineer
• Python Flask Back-End Web Development experience
• MySQL, SqlAlchemy
• Ability to work independently and remotely, taking the lead on feature development
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical & communication skills
• Experience with TDD
• Bitbucket, git
• bioinformatics experience with qiime2 or other pipelines an advantage
• AWS

• Mid-Senior level

• Full-time

• Engineering and Information Technology

• Biotechnology