About Jumia:
Jumia is a leading pan-African e-commerce platform. Its mission is to improve the quality of everyday life in Africa by leveraging technology to deliver innovative, convenient and affordable online services to customers, while helping businesses grow as they use Jumia's platform to better reach and serve customers.
Jumia is built around a marketplace and supported by a proprietary logistics business [Jumia Logistics] and a digital payment and fintech platform [Jumia Pay]. With over 3,000 employees, Jumia is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by very high-profile shareholders. Jumia is committed to creating a sustainable impact in Africa.
In April 2019, Jumia was the first Tech company in Africa to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
About Jumia Egypt Tech Center
Want to be part of the biggest tech center in Africa and work in mixed teams with over 16 different nationalities? Join Jumia Egypt Tech Center where tech meets purpose. At Egypt Tech Center you will be managed by and mentored by top tech leaders in both Portugal and Egypt. You will also be working with state-of-the-art technologies & methodologies, and using agile philosophy, all as means to improve the lives of millions of Africans across the continent by offering them convenient and affordable online solutions. And with that as our PURPOSE, innovation at Jumia NEVER stops and you will be moving from one exciting challenge to the next.
At Jumia, we are always looking for new talent! If Frontend is in your DNA, then this is the place to be. Check out below!
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
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
Please ensure to only apply for jobs with Jumia through our official website.Jumia will never charge you a fee to apply for a job: be wary of websites that claim to help you apply for a Jumia job or that charge a fee to get you a job.
