# Senior Scala Software Engineer

Introduction As a Software Engineer, you’ll apply your expertise to building reliable, robust software within the e-commerce sector. You’ll bring a computer science background with a strong focus on software development, using best practices to enhance existing systems and contribute to new features. Duties & Responsibilities Design and build solutions to assist our business users and improve customer experience Architect and design solutions with your team Keep up to date with technology trends Apply creative thought processes to solve complex challenges at scale Strong focus on making takealot.com the best place to shop at, a happy customer is a repeat customer Drive for excellence, to help foster a world-class engineering team Skills: Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude, and high energy Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions Ability to disaggregate and structure solutions to ambiguous problems Solid quantitative skills Ability to interview and interact professionally, with internal and external people Capability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally Versatile and with the appetite to learn by doing Desi

- **Id**: 4070384
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mit-recruitment-senior-scala-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: board_field
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Locations**: South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T10:01:05Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-06T10:01:05Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2259
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commerce

## Company

- **Id**: 4504372
- **Name**: MIT Recruitment
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mit-recruitment>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Technologies

- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **GitHub** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Memcached** — Optional: no
- **MS SQL** — Optional: no
- **MySQL** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RabbitMQ** — Optional: no
- **Redis** — Optional: no
- **Scala** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Travis CI** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **South Africa** — Iso: ZA; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-11T12:57:50Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 52
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.516
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: seen:5, agency, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T15:06:33Z

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