Golang Developer at Jumia

Responsibilities

• Autonomy interpreting business/technical requirements, designing, implementing and testing high-quality solutions
• Work in a team-based development environment with modular code base, peer reviews and pull requests, with disciplined use of source code control and documentation
• Constant 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

Requirements

• Strong working experience (+3 years) and knowledge with Golang
• Experience with Golang Web Frameworks (e.g. Gin Gonic, Rebel)
• Clear understanding of OOP, Design Patterns and anti-patterns, SOLID principles
• Working experience with relational databases (e.g. MySQL)
• Experienced with testing layers (unit, integration and functional testing) and version control technologies (e.g. GIT)
• Understanding of Queuing systems (e.g. SQS, RabbitMQ)

Personal Skills

• Eager to work in team environment and share knowledge
• Likes problem analysis and solving
• Enthusiast and an interested in technologies and innovation
• Solution oriented and proactive attitude, in parallel with “Get Things Done” mindset

The following skills are not required but will make your profile stand out.

• Experience with other languages like PHP and JS
• Prior experience with of the following technologies: Apache Kafka, Couchbase, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Redis
• Experience with microservices oriented architecture
• Familiar with SCRUM methodology

Academic & Trades Qualifications

• Academic background in IT or equivalent
• Knowledge in algorithms and distributed systems
• Proficiency in English
• 3 year of experience

What We Offer

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures