SoftwareDataEngineer

takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Software Data Engineer with solid coding experience and knowledge of software engineering principles to join our team. We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us! Think you’ve been challenged before? Think again! Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. 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 Takealot Group: takealot.com, Mr D & TFS. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. Who’s who in the tech space This position reports to the Engineering Manager Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Designing, developing, testing, and maintaining data architectures. Preparing data for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive modeling Automating repetitive tasks and manual processes related to ingesting data into our lakehouse environment Optimizing data delivery for downstream applications Designing, developing, and testing large stream data pipelines to ingest, aggregate, clean, and distribute data models ready for analysis Ensuring the highest standard in data integrity Leveraging best practices in continuous integration and delivery Collaborating with other engineers, ML experts, analysts, and stakeholders to produce the most efficient and valuable solutions Contributing to our data democratization and literacy vision by making accessible and easy-to-use data products and tools Implementing features, technology, and processes that move us towards industry best practices, improving on scalability, efficiency, reliability, and security Operations and ownership of systems in production, responding to incidents The skills we need: Works well with people and is passionate about helping people be their best Is a team player, an active