Senior iOS Software Engineer - Jumia (Full Time)

About Jumia:

Jumia believes that technology has the potential to transform everyday life in Africa for the better. Jumia was built to help consumers access millions of goods and services conveniently and at the best prices while opening up a new way for sellers to reach consumers and grow their businesses.
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2019, Jumia is the leading e-commerce company in Africa, operating in 11 countries. The Jumia platform consists of a marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers, a logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and a payment service, JumiaPay, which offers a safe and easy solution to facilitate online payment transactions. The company offers goods across a broad range of categories, such as phones and electronics, home appliances, fast-moving consumer goods, fashion and beauty.

About Jumia Cairo 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 Cairo Tech Center where tech meets purpose. At Cairo 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 a 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.

What you will be doing

• Development of native mobile applications driving a mobile-first company strategy, writing top-notch code (Swift or Kotlin) and resorting to battle-hardened design patterns
• Autonomy interpreting business/technical requirements, designing, implementing and testing high-quality and scalable solutions
• Be fully aware of the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
• Work in a development environment with a modular codebase, peer reviews and pull requests workflow with a proper source control process, with disciplined and structured branching model, and documentation
• Constant aim for quality, scalability, performance, and architecture keeping good practices, security, and compliance in check
• Be part of a challenging, attractive, fast and agile development process
• Contribute actively and proactively to optimize applications, processes, and methodologies
• Be willing to help peers, being part of a collaborative environment for development, testing, and automation tasks.

What we are looking for

• Experience in developing native mobile applications
• Strong knowledge of the programming language (Swift)
• Knowledge and experience with modern patterns for mobile such as MVP and MVVM
• Familiar and experienced in mobile guidelines and components
• Knowledge and experience with automated tests framework or Room database
• Experienced with version control, automated development and release process: Git, Jenkins and Fastlane
• Familiar with memory management, UI layout/ rendering and UI or Network performance
• Experienced and familiar with REST API architecture
• Familiar with SCRUM methodology
• Familiar with 3rd party tools such as Analytics, Crash Reports and Notifications, A/B Tests and Deep Links.

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