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.
What you will be doing
- Work closely with a multidisciplinary team (Software Engineers, DevOps, QA Engineers, Product Owners) oriented to continuous delivery
- Work across the entire product life cycle: concept, design, development, deployment, testing, release, support
- Write module, well-organized code
- Construct and verify (unit test) software components to meet design specifications
- Take ownership of 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
- Build efficient, testable, and reusable modules
- Rapidly fix bugs and solve problems
What we are looking for
- At least 3 years of previous working experience in web development
- Previous working knowledge of Java and Angular
- Nodejs and Elasticsearch knowledge will be kindly welcomed
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
- Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team
- Proficient with MySQL
- Experienced with web server-side and client-side technologies
- Experienced with Version Control technologies (GIT)
- Aware of Performance and Security topics in web development
- Preferably previous commercial experience in Web Application development and/or software development
- Some knowledge of the Linux command line
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
