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
Define NFRs, and standards for observability and
collaborate with Engineering Managers to ensure highly performant solutions are
developed
Ensure comprehensive documentation of system
architecture, design decisions, and operational procedures.
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 experience as an individual contributor
working with agile methodologies and with experience architecting and running
large-scale systems
Strong working experience with Java and respective
web frameworks (preferably Spring)
Experience with event-driven architectures and tools
for queueing and streaming (preferably Apache Kafka)
Experienced working with large-scale Databases (SQL
and NoSQL)
Experience with containerization (preferably Docker)
and orchestration (Kubernetes)
Strong black box test Automation experience is a plus
Experience designing and developing platforms built
for scale is a plus
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
How To Apply
