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Distinguished Principal Engineer
What you will be doing
- Be part of the Jumia Engineering team and shape the long-term technology vision and strategy aligning with the company’s objectives
- Be a role model for the Jumia Values
- Work effectively cross-functionally and with the leadership, leveraging data and metrics to identify new opportunities for existing and new projects and features
- Define architectural standards and guidelines across the company in collaboration with the Technical Advisory Group, Directors of Engineering and Platform teams
- Arbitrate on technical decisions within your scope
- Define Operational Excellence KPIs and standards, and partner with Directors of Engineering to ensure highly performant solutions are developed and continuously improved
- Drive performance and efficiency improvements across Jumia’s platform, leading initiatives in load testing, performance tuning, and capacity planning
- Ensure comprehensive documentation of system architecture, design decisions, and operational procedures.
- Mentor and develop Principal and Staff Engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning
- Ensure system reliability and compliance
- Find a group of humble and intelligent people ready to make you grow and to grow with you
- Change the Internet landscape in Africa and the World through your team
What we are looking for
- At least 3-5 years of experience working as a Principal Engineer – experience as an individual contributor working with agile methodologies and with experience architecting and running large-scale tier 1 systems
- Expertise in designing and implementing complex system architectures, with a focus on scalability, reliability, and maintainability
- Strong working experience with Java and web frameworks (preferably Spring), with exposure to multiple programming languages
- Experience with event-driven architectures and tools for queueing and streaming (preferably Apache Kafka)
- Experienced working with large-scale Databases (SQL and NoSQL), with a good understanding of data modelling and optimization
- Experience with containerization (preferably Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Strong black box test Automation experience is a plus
- Experience designing and developing platforms built for scale is a plus
- A proactive challenger mindset: if there’s room for improvement, you’ll say it
- A solver mindset: when there is a will, there is a way
- A strong business sense – you understand the impact of your work
- The ability to be autonomous and to own your decisions
- The ambition to grow the company and within the company
- Full professional English proficiency
Senior Frontend Developer (Angular/React)
What you will be doing
- Be part of an agile team that creates scalable solutions leveraging state-of-the-art technologies in a service-oriented architecture
- Work closely with multidisciplinary teams (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 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
What we are looking for
- At least 4 years of experience in Frontend development
- Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Consolidated professional experience building high-quality, performant JavaScript applications
- Consolidated experience in JavaScript frameworks/libraries, such as AngularJS, VueJS or ReactJS
- Write and test interactive, clean, secure and efficient solutions
- Help maintain a high-level quality code by reviewing your teammates’ code
- Continuously improve our codebase, 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
- Knowledge of algorithms and distributed systems
- Academic background in IT or equivalent
- Proficiency in English
Senior Java Software Engineer
What you will be doing
- 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
What we are looking for
- Minimum of 3 years of experience
- Experienced with Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
- 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