Principal engineer

Takealot Group · remote, remote, South-Africa

Location
remote
Job Type
Full-time
Posted
June 23, 2026

Job Description

, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Principal Engineer to join the Engineering team based in South Africa.

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 . Show them what you can do. Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and up-skill in record time. Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: , Mr D and TFS. We like to promote from within: Here’s your chance. Purpose of the role:

Takealot Group operates at an unprecedented scale, powering the e-commerce infrastructure for millions of South Africans through Takealot, Mr D, and TFS. Architecting the future of retail and logistics in Africa requires building hyper-scale, highly available distributed systems that can process immense throug...

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