Principal Engineer
What you will be doing:
- 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
What we are looking for:
- 8+
years experience as an individual contributor working with agile
methodologies
- A
proactive challenger mindset: if there’s room for improvement, you’ll say
it
- A
solver mindset: when there is a will, there is a way
- 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
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
How to Apply