About Jumia:
Jumia believes that technology has the potential to transform everyday life in Africa for the better. Jumia was built to help consumers access millions of goods and services conveniently and at the best prices while opening up a new way for sellers to reach consumers and grow their businesses.
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2019, Jumia is the leading e-commerce company in Africa, operating in 11 countries. The Jumia platform consists of a marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers, a logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and a payment service, JumiaPay, which offers a safe and easy solution to facilitate online payment transactions. The company offers goods across a broad range of categories, such as phones and electronics, home appliances, fast-moving consumer goods, fashion and beauty.
What you will be doing:
Be part of an agile team that develops smart logistics solutions on a service-oriented architecture using state-of-the-art technologies
In particular, you will:
- Work closely with a multidisciplinary team (Backend developers, DevOps, QA engineers, Product Owners) oriented to continuous delivery
- Work across the entire product life cycle: concept, design, development, deployment, testing, release, support
- Construct and verify (unit test) software components to meet design specifications
- Take ownership for your code to be qualitatively high and you will support your colleagues in code reviews
- Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers
- Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems.
What we are looking for:
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Write and test interactive, clean, secure and efficient solutions
- Help maintain a high-level quality code by reviewing your teammates' code
- Continuously improve our code base, systems and processes
- Keen to learn new technologies and have ideas about how we can make things better
- Being passionate, self-driven and working with little supervision towards a common team or company purpose
- Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team
- A professional with +5 years of frontend web experience
- Proficient with at least one widely adopted single page application (SPA) architecture
- Vanilla Javascript and modern frameworks and platforms such as AngularJS, Ember, ReactJS, VueJS and/or Node.js
- Know module bundlers and task runners such as Webpack, Parcel, Rollup, Browserify, Grunt or Gulp
- Creating a testable code and make testing a priority
- Agile methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban
- Passionate for coaching other engineers and building a strong team culture
We Offer:
- A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
- A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African e-commerce sector
- The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team
- An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer term objective is to train the next generation of leaders
