Senior NodeJS Software Engineer - Jumia (Full Time)

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.

What you will be doing

Autonomy interpreting business/technical requirements, designing, implementing, and testing high-quality solutions

Work in a team-based development environment with a modular code base, peer reviews, and pull requests, with the disciplined use of source code control and documentation

Constantly aim for quality, scalability, performance, and architecture keeping good practices, security, and compliance in check

Be part of a 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

Strong working experience and knowledge with NodeJS and NodeJS frameworks (e.g. Express, NestJS)

A clear understanding of OOP, Design Patterns and anti-patterns, SOLID principles

Working experience with relation and non-relational databases (e.g. MySQL, Redis...)

Experienced with testing layers (unit, integration, and functional testing) and version control technologies (e.g. GIT)

Understanding of Queuing and Streaming systems (e.g. SQS, Kafka)

Academic background in IT or equivalent

Knowledge of algorithms and distributed systems

Proficiency in English

The following skills are not required but will make your profile stand out:

Knowledge in JavaScript (ES6) and VueJS, SCSS is a plus

Experience with services/microservices-oriented architecture, ideally in an e-commerce scope

Familiar with SCRUM methodology

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

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