Principal Software Engineer (Group Fulfilment)

About the job

Takealot.com , South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Principal Software Engineer to join our Group Fulfilment Engineering team in Cape Town. We are an energetic team that is fully responsible for all the systems required to support the Takealot group's delivery network, as well as the unique challenges that come with logistics and scale. We have adopted a microservices architecture to both isolate our logic and enable scale. We follow event-driven architecture as well as utilise a graph database to model our delivery network. We are currently working through unique problems in the logistics space and are actively researching the usage of the actor model…