About Jumia:
Jumia is a leading pan-African e-commerce platform. Its mission is to improve the quality of everyday life in Africa by leveraging technology to deliver innovative, convenient and affordable online services to customers, while helping businesses grow as they use Jumia's platform to better reach and serve customers.
Jumia is built around a marketplace and supported by a proprietary logistics business [Jumia Logistics] and a digital payment and fintech platform [Jumia Pay]. With over 3,000 employees, Jumia is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by very high-profile shareholders. Jumia is committed to creating a sustainable impact in Africa.
In April 2019, Jumia was the first Tech company in Africa to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
About Jumia Egypt Tech Center
Want to be part of the biggest tech center in Africa and work in mixed teams with over 16 different nationalities? Join Jumia Cairo Tech Center where tech meets purpose. At Cairo Tech Center, you will be managed by and mentored by top tech leaders in both Portugal and Egypt. You will also be working with state-of-the-art technologies & methodologies, and using agile philosophy, all as means to improve the lives of millions of Africans across the continent by offering them convenient and affordable online solutions. And with that as our PURPOSE, innovation at Jumia NEVER stops and you will be moving from one exciting challenge to the next.
What you will be doing
- Autonomy interpreting business/technical requirements, designing, implementing and testing high-quality solutions
- Work in a team-based development environment with a modular code base, peer reviews and pull requests, with disciplined use of source code control and documentation
- Constantly aim for quality, scalability, performance, and architecture keeping good practices, security, and compliance in check
- Be part of a fast and agile development process
- Contribute actively and proactively to optimize applications, processes, and methodologies
- Be willful to help peers, being part of a collaborative environment for development, testing, and automation tasks
What we are looking for
- 5+ years of experience in PHP development
- Strong working experience and knowledge with PHP 8 and PHP frameworks (e.g. Zend Expressive, Laravel, Symfony)
- Clear understanding of OOP, Design Patterns and anti-patterns, SOLID principles
- Experience with dependency injection and ORM
- Working experience with relation and non-relational databases (e.g. MySQL, Couchbase, Redis...)
- Experienced with testing layers (unit, integration and functional testing) and version control technologies (e.g. GIT)
- Understanding of Queuing and Streaming systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka)
- Academic background in IT or equivalent
- Knowledge of algorithms and distributed systems
- Proficiency in English
The following skills are not required but will make your profile stand out:
- Experience with caching services (e.g. Memcache, Varnish) and containerization
- Knowledge of JavaScript (ES6) and Node.js is a plus
- Experience with services/microservices-oriented architecture, ideally in an eCommerce scope
- Familiar with SCRUM methodology
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
