Duties and Responsibilities

• Be part of the Jumia Engineering team and play a key role in Jumia’s technology plan
• Be a role model for the Jumia Values
• Work effectively cross-functionally discussing and identifying new opportunities for projects and features
• Align architectural decisions with and across Engineering teams, ensuring the progress towards the target vision for the Jumia platform
• Arbitrate on technical decisions within your scope
• Directly contribute to systems design and write code to set the example of what technical excellence looks like in Jumia
• Coach Engineers in your scope
• 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

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience as an individual contributor working with agile methodologies and with experience architecting and running large-scale systems
• Strong working experience with PHP or NodeJS and respective web frameworks
• Experience with event-driven architectures and tools for queueing and streaming (preferably SQS, and Apache Kafka)
• Experienced working with large-scale Databases (SQL and NoSQL)
• Experience with containerization (preferably Docker)
• A proactive challenger mindset: if there’s room for improvement, you’ll say it
• 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

Highly valuable

• Knowledge of Golang
• Blackbox test automation

How To Apply

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