Senior Java Software Engineer at Jumia

Job Description

JUMIA is an e-commerce startup with an aim to mimic Amazon’s success by delivering a wide range of items, from toys to generators across the African continent. Shortly after the startup of the business in Nigeria, JUMIA launched warehouses in four other growing countries which include: Egypt, Morocco, Kenya and Cote d’Ivoire.

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

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