Principal engineer
Takealot Group • remote, gauteng • Posted June 13, 2026
About the Role
, 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 throughp...