Mid / Senior Java Software Engineer - Jumia at Jumia

Main Responsibilities

• You will be part of an agile team that develops e-commerce, smart logistics, and payment solutions.
• Your work will integrate a service oriented architecture using state- of-the-art technologies and software development practices; You will own your services and be responsible end-to-end
• You will take ownership for your code to be qualitatively high and you will support your colleagues in code reviews
• You will change the Internet landscape in Africa and the World one line of code at a time.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Minimum 3 Years of Experience 
• Experienced with object Oriented Programming

• Experience with development in Java (and ideally Spring boot framework)

• Acquainted with building testable code, unit tests and/or integration tests

• Knowledgeable of software design and architecture patterns

• Knowledgeable of SQL and relational databases

• Fluent in English
• The following gives you a good head start:
• Experience in another programming languages, namely : Go, NodeJS
• DevSecOps mindset
• Aware of fault-tolerance and secure programming concepts
• Experienced in some of the following concepts: message queuing, caching, NoSQL, SOA, CI/CD, application and system monitoring
• Experienced in some of the following technologies: Maven, Gradle, Hibernate, Kafka, Redis, Prometheus, Docker, Kubernetes, SonarCube, Jenkins
• Experienced working with Scrum processes

References we use daily at work:

Mr. Martin Fowler: https://martinfowler.com/ The Clean Code by Robert C. Martin (or simply Uncle Bob)

The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas Release it! By Michael T. Nygard Agile Estimating and Planning by Mike Cohn http://highscalability.com/

We offer:

• A unique experience in an international, entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• An unparalleled personal and professional improvement as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet service lines
• The opportunity to be part of a team full of talented people with the best backgrounds