Jumia is a leading e-commerce platform in Africa with over 5,000 employees in more than 20 African countries. It is built around a marketplace, Jumia Logistics, and JumiaPay. The marketplace helps millions of consumers and sellers to connect and transact. Jumia Logistics enables the delivery of millions of packages through our network of local partners. JumiaPay facilitates the payments of online transactions for Jumia’s ecosystem. Join Jumia Nigeria career team today, and be part of our success story.
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Job Title: Senior Java Software Engineer – Jumia
Location: Nigeria
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Tech at Jumia
- We are a Tech Driven company with an Innovative spirit. At Jumia Tech, you will work under the most updated technologies and work methodologies, collaborating between multiple teams across disciplines – Business, Product and Engineering.
- We are great fans of Agile philosophy and we aim to keep things simple but smart and fast. Also, for Jumia, technology relates with improvement for our world.
- We see technology as something we need to put purpose into. Our mission is to leverage technology to improve everyday life in Africa and we do it by delivering convenient and affordable online services to consumers, helping them fulfill basic everyday needs.
- And while we’re present in Africa, we get to take African economy online, helping small and large businesses grow and reach new consumers. This is what drives our day to day decisions. 🙂
- We are looking for great people to join our amazing teams and celebrate our achievements. At Jumia we work hard, but we do Tech With Purpose!
Responsibilities
As a Senior Backend Developer, you will be part of an agile Software Development Team and will be responsible for the full lifecycle of an application:
- You will be working with a team of talented Engineers across geographies, and entrusted in defining the solution, leading the design, architecture and development of applications using Java and related technologies.
- You will collaborate with the product team and stakeholders to translate product feature requirements into technical specifications, and will identify the best approach for large pieces of work that span multiple components and teams.
- You will perform code reviews, provide feedback and guidance to your team, and ensure the overall quality and maintainability of the codebase, while focussing on optimizing the performance.
- You will troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in highly distributed systems. You will also be mentoring your junior colleagues, and helping elevate the skills and developing the team, ensuring the team stays up to date and applies the new trends in the industry.
- As an expert in the area, you will be the go-to person for big ideas and problem-solving. With your large expertise, we know that you’ll add a lot of value to the team – be it by suggesting alternative methodologies that may be more efficient, actively improving the tooling to improve use cases, or even designing and developing a technical solution or new processes to create robust, reliable and scalable systems.
- You can expect to use cutting-edge technologies to deliver amazing value and the best product to our customers while scaling our platform to meet the demands of worldwide markets.
- You will be required to program well-designed, testable, efficient code to solve business needs, as well as test and document the implemented solutions.
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Requirements
Technical Skills:
- 8+ Years of Experience in hands-on development in Java (preferably 8+) and related frameworks or similar OOP languages
- Experience in working with high concurrency, highly transactable, high available platforms
- Acquainted with building testable code, unit tests and/or integration tests
- Knowledgeable of software design and architecture patterns
- Knowledgeable of SQL and relational databases
- Experience with code versioning tools
- Experienced in some of the following technologies: Maven, Gradle, Hibernate, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis, Prometheus, Docker, Kubernetes, SonarCube, Jenkins
- Familiarity with APIs, Event Driven Architecture, Microservices, Dockers & Containers
- 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 working with Scrum processes
Soft Skills:
- Fluent in English, strong communication and collaboration abilities
- Ability to drive consensus in a multi disciplinary environment
- Critical thinking and Problem solving capabilities
- Analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Being resilient and Challenging the status quo
- Extreme accountability and drive for results
We Offer
- A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
- A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African e-commerce sector
- The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team
- An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer term objective is to train the next generation of leaders
Application Closing Date
Not Specified
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How to Apply
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