Jobs at Jumia

Main Responsibilities

1. You will be part of an agile team that develops e-commerce, smart logistics, and payment solutions.
2. 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
3. You will take ownership for your code to be qualitatively high and you will support your colleagues in code reviews
4. You will change the Internet landscape in Africa and the World one line of code at a time.

Required Skills and Qualifications

1. Minimum 3 Years of Experience 
2. Experienced with object Oriented Programming
3. Experience with development in Java (and ideally Spring boot framework)
4. Acquainted with building testable code, unit tests and/or integration tests
5. Knowledgeable of software design and architecture patterns
6. Knowledgeable of SQL and relational databases
7. Fluent in English

The following gives you a good head start:

1. Experience in another programming languages, namely : Go, NodeJS
2. DevSecOps mindset
3. Aware of fault-tolerance and secure programming concepts
4. Experienced in some of the following concepts: message queuing, caching, NoSQL, SOA, CI/CD, application and system monitoring
5. Experienced in some of the following technologies: Maven, Gradle, Hibernate, Kafka, Redis, Prometheus, Docker, Kubernetes, SonarCube, Jenkins
6. Experienced working with Scrum processes

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About this role:

We are looking for a Lead Developer to join Jumia's Engineering management team. You will be in charge of setting a fantastic engineering experience for your team(s), its delivery, growth, and career path, and you will interface with multiple stakeholders to discuss current projects and the vision for future ones. We grow through our technology and you will play a key role in it.

Main Responsibilities:

1. Be part of the Jumia Engineering Management team and play a key role in Jumia’s technology plan
2. Be a role model for the Jumia Values
3. Coach engineers in your team and set their career path
4. Drive your team on a continuous lookout for improvement
5. Build reliable systems that scale to Jumia's ambitions
6. Interact and communicate effectively with engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders
7. Partner with the product lead to manage project scope and ensure the technical deliverables are met
8. Identify headcount needs for the team, plan and recruit to fill these needs
9. Find a group of humble and smart people ready to make you grow and to grow with you
10. Change the Internet landscape in Africa and the World through your team

You have:

1. 5+ years experience as an individual Software Engineer contributor working with Java technologies and agile methodologies
2. A track record of leading effective teams (officially or unofficially - this may be your first experience as engineering manager)
3. An eye for recruiting great people
4. A great sense to manage technical debt and you know investing in quality will make you go faster
5. The ability to be autonomous and to own your decisions
6. The ambition to grow the company and within the company
7. A great technical sense to challenge engineers and product to make the right decisions
8. Full professional English proficiency

We offer:

1. Space to use and experiment new technologies on a robust tech environment
2. A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
3. The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world
4. An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures