Takealot Group
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How Takealot Group hires
Truth index
A 89/100
Median time to fill
42 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
43%
Reposted roles
0%
Takealot Group scores A on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 7 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 43% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 42 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Overview
Takealot Group is the largest online retailer in South Africa, operating the Takealot marketplace and related services including restaurant delivery support. It hires marketplace sales managers, software engineers, customer service team leaders and finance administrators. The group is headquartered in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Takealot Group launches Innovation Challenge with R1.7 million prize pool - Hypertext
The Takealot Group's initiative offers a 10-week hybrid accelerator programme, as well as prizes for the top performing businesses.
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Loyalty programme helps Takealot Group record R384.8 million turnaround - Hypertext
The Takealot Group has shared its financial year end results, with it recording an 18 percent increase in revenue to R17.7 billion.
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Takealot Group bets local scale can hold Amazon at bay
Takealot is not treating Amazon's arrival in South Africa as a threat to be survived so much as a contest just getting under way.
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Takealot Group FY26 revenue up 18% to R17.7bn
Takealot is finally in the black. Its journey has led it to profitability, for the first time in 15 years. In its full year ended March, the South African e-commerce giant; posted record revenue of R17.7 billion. CNBC Africa spoke to the CEO, Frederik Zie
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Takealot Group achieves first full-year adjusted operating profit, marking a milestone for South Africa's e-commerce
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Takealot Group Revenue Climbs as Over 30,000 SMEs Benefit from Digital Economy
With double-digit growth across all platforms, expanding logistics capacity, and rising customer engagement, Takealot Group's HY2026 performance marks a pivotal step toward long-term profitability and deeper participation in South Africa's digital economy
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Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Takealot Group over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
89
Postings analysed
36
Stack modernity
81/100AI adopter
Languages
Python69%
Kotlin53%
Scala47%
SQL44%
Frameworks & libraries
Angular14%
Playwright8%
SwiftUI6%
Robot Framework6%
Databases
Redis58%
PostgreSQL14%
MySQL11%
ElasticSearch6%
Cloud & platforms
GCP58%
Apache Kafka58%
Kubernetes58%
Windows36%
AI & ML
LLM6%
Gemini3%
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Full Takealot Group tech stack
89 technologies · by team · pay by technology · changes · similar stacks
Growth
Hiring Momentum
86/100
Scaling fast
Open positions
18
12 opened / 27 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
31 days
faster than 41% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Product
20% ▼
Legal
12% ▲
Support
10% ▲
Finance
10%
Backend
7% ▼
Mobile
7% ▼
Actively hiring for Legal (+3 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
+6 jobs in a week
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Added FinOps to stack
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Added Sketch to stack
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Added InVision to stack
Oct 2026
Added Balsamiq to stack
Oct 2026
New location: South Africa
Oct 2026
Added Google Workspace to stack
Oct 2026
Added Svelte to stack
Oct 2026
Added SvelteKit to stack
Oct 2026
Added Selenium to stack
Oct 2026
Added Scrum to stack
Oct 2026
Added Node JS to stack
Oct 2026
Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
5
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Cape Town
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Cape Town
South Africa
HQ
Cape Town Office
18 open roles 39 posted in 90 days 50% engineering 11% remote 200-500 est. staff
hires for Backend, Product, Mobile
Johannesburg
South Africa
Regional office
Johannesburg DC
2 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff
Gqeberha
South Africa
Regional office
Port Elizabeth Hub
Nelspruit
South Africa
Regional office
Mbombela Hub
Polokwane
South Africa
Regional office
Polokwane Hub
Earlier presence
Durban, South Africa
Jobs
≈ $39k – $87k per year (Estimated) · In office · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cape Town
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≈ $21k – $56k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cape Town
Python
Kotlin
SQL
Scala
Swift
Redis
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Machine Learning
Mobile
Firebase
Braze
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
Analytics
Looker
Design
Sketch
InVision
Balsamiq
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≈ $31k – $68k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · 7+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cape Town
Python
Kotlin
SQL
Scala
Redis
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
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≈ $25k – $75k per year (Estimated) · In office · 10+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cape Town
Python
JavaScript
Java
Kotlin
TypeScript
SQL
C#
Scala
Play Framework
Databases
PostgreSQL
Redis
Cassandra
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Machine Learning
Frontend
Angular
DevOps
GCP
Git
Kubernetes
Grafana
Linux
Windows
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≈ $29k – $76k per year (Estimated) · Remote (South Africa) · 5+ years exp · Master's Degree · Cape Town
Python
Redis
Apache Kafka
Google BigQuery
AI/ML
MLFlow
Vertex AI
Scikit-learn
Kubeflow
TensorFlow
Pandas
PyTorch
Gemini
LLM
KServe
Amazon SageMaker
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Linux
IoT
MQTT
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Hybrid · 5+ years exp · Master's Degree · Cape Town
Python
JavaScript
Kotlin
TypeScript
Swift
Redis
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Machine Learning
Frontend
Angular
Mobile
SwiftUI
Firebase
CocoaPods
Fastlane
Braze
DevOps
GitHub Actions
CircleCI
CI/CD
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Windows
Design
Figma
Management
Miro
Google Maps
Agile
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≈ $21k – $55k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · 4+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cape Town
Windows
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Hybrid · 8+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cape Town
Python
Kotlin
Scala
Swift
Objective-C
Alamofire
Databases
Redis
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Machine Learning
Mobile
UIKit
SwiftUI
iOS SDK
State Management
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
GitLab
Windows
Management
Confluence
Jira
QA
Robot Framework
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≈ $34k – $63k per year (Estimated) · In office · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cape Town
Python
Kotlin
SQL
Scala
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
Oracle
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
Linux
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≈ $22k – $57k per year (Estimated) · Hybrid · 3+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cape Town
Python
Kotlin
Scala
Redis
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
LLM
Machine Learning
DevOps
GCP
Kubernetes
Windows
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≈ $40k – $72k per year (Estimated) · In office · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cape Town
Python
SQL
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
RabbitMQ
MS SQL
Memcached
Apache Kafka
DevOps
GCP
Azure
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Travis CI
GitHub
Linux
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≈ $39k – $71k per year (Estimated) · Remote (South Africa) · 5+ years exp · Bachelor's Degree · Cape Town
Python
Go
JavaScript
Kotlin
SQL
Scala
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Redis
RabbitMQ
Memcached
ElasticSearch
Apache Kafka
AI/ML
Vertex AI
Machine Learning
Frontend
React.js
JQuery
Mobile
Algolia
DevOps
Rest API
GCP
Azure
Jenkins
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Travis CI
GitHub
Linux
Management
Agile
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