Software Engineer (Java) - Jumia (Full Time)
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Job Description
Jumia is Africa's leading internet group, with already over 3,000 employees in more than 14 African countries and huge successes such as Jumia, Jumia Market, Jumia Travel, Jumia Food, Jumia Deals, Jumia House, Jumia Jobs and Jumia Services. It is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by MTN, Millicom, Rocket Internet, Axa, Orange, Goldman Sachs & CdC.
Founded in 2012, Jumia's mission is to revolutionize the concept of shopping by providing customers with the best online shopping experience through a wide range of products categories including mobiles & tablets, computers, electronics, home & living, fashion, sports, health & beauty, grocery and others.
Africa is one of the fastest growing economies in the world, offering excellent opportunities in a vibrant and booming environment. Its economic growth has enabled innovative businesses to flourish and this is where Jumia steps in.
We are currently looking for talented people with a passion for emerging markets and Africa to join our team and embark on our exciting journey.
Main Responsibilities:
- Participating in a team-oriented environment to develop complex web-based applications.
- Interpret written business requirements and technical specifications documents.
- Maintaining existing codebase, to include troubleshooting bugs, and adding new features.
- Monitor and prioritize systems performance and security and apply best practices.
- Respect and follow the code of conduct, general rules and principles.
Job Requirements
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Minimum 3 years of experience in software development.
- Excellent knowledge in OOP, Data Structure and Algorithms.
- Experience in Java/J2EE development with Spring framework ideally Spring Boot.
- Experience with web services (REST/SOAP)
- Experience with build tools (e.g., Maven, Gradle).
- Experience working with Linux.
- Experience with ORM (e.g., Hibernate) and SQL (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL) in
addition to NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB). - A strong sense for code quality, following/defining coding guidelines and experience
with Unit and Integration Testing (e.g., junit, testng). - Experience working with a large code-base and version control systems, ideally GIT.
- Familiar with software development life cycle & Agile Process (Scrum/Kanban).
- Proactiveness, team player, and positive attitude.
- Adaptable, meticulous, innovative with good problem solving skills.
- Excellent English Communication Skills.
Preferred Skills
- Familiar with Message Queuing systems (e.g. RabbitMQ, Kafka).
- Experience with distributed caching frameworks. (such as Redis, Memcache, .. etc.)
- Experience with other Server Side language (e.g. PHP)
- Experience working with Docker.
- Experience with CI Tools (e.g. Jenkins)
