Frontend React.js at Jumia

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 1+ 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
• Semantic documents using HTML
• Developing great user interfaces
• 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