Website Shoprite
The Shoprite Group is the largest retailer in Africa, known for its iconic supermarket brands Shoprite, Checkers and Usave. Starting with just eight stores and 400 employees in 1979, our business is now the continent’s industry leader by market capitalisation, sales, profit, and number of employees and customers. The Group’s core business is food retailing, complemented by value-added retail services and offering across a range of industries including technology, financial, pharmaceutical, furniture, telecommunication as well as ticketing businesses.
Job Objectives
- Analyse and understand business requirements in the context of the current business environment in conjunction with Product Manager, Business Analysts and Solution Architects.
- Collaborate with other developers and team members to ensure proper code management and follow development best practices, including version control, code reviews, unit testing and necessary technical documentation.
- Ensure the e-commerce platform meets all performance requirements and is scalable, secure, and reliable.
- Integrate third-party APIs and services to streamline the flow of data and information between the e-commerce platform and other systems.
- Stay informed about emerging e-commerce technologies and industry trends and recommend improvements to the platform accordingly.
- Work with business stakeholders to understand business requirements and analyse and translate these into fit-for-purpose, robust and scalable solutions.
- Configuration and creation of technical components and services required to deliver online customer facing features
- Provide active technical advice to the team, IT and mentoring of development team
Qualifications
- Diploma /Degree in Information Systems / B.Sc Computer Science (or similar) (Desirable)
- Matric with experience equal to three times the number of years study specified (Essential)
Experience
- 5+ years of experience in e-commerce web development
- 5+ experience with Cloud Solutions such as Azure or AWS
- Experience integrating with third-party APIs and services such as payment gateways, shipping providers, and social media platforms.
- Experience with B2B eCommerce (desirable)
