About Jumia Tech Centers
Want to be part of the biggest tech center in Africa and work in mixed teams with over 16 different nationalities? Join Jumia Kenya Tech Center where tech meets purpose. At Kenya Tech Center you will be managed by and mentored by top tech leaders across Portugal, Egypt and Kenya. You will also be working with state-of-the-art technologies & methodologies, and using agile philosophy, all as means to improve the lives of millions of Africans across the continent by offering them convenient and affordable online solutions. And with that as our PURPOSE, innovation at Jumia NEVER stops and you will be moving from one exciting challenge to the next.
What you will be doing

Be part of an agile team that creates scalable solutions leveraging state-of-the-art technologies in a service-oriented architecture
Work closely with multidisciplinary teams (Backend developers, DevOps, QA engineers, Product Owners) oriented to continuous delivery
Work across the entire product life cycle: concept, design, development, deployment, testing, release, support
Construct and verify (unit test) software components to meet design specifications
Take ownership of your code to be qualitatively high and you will support your colleagues in code reviews
Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers

What we are looking for

At least 4 years of experience in Frontend development
Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
Consolidated professional experience building high-quality, performant JavaScript applications
Consolidated experience in JavaScript frameworks/libraries, such as AngularJS, VueJS or ReactJS
Write and test interactive, clean, secure and efficient solutions
Help maintain a high-level quality code by reviewing your teammates' code
Continuously improve our codebase, systems and processes
Keen to learn new technologies and have ideas about how we can make things better
Being passionate, self-driven and working with little supervision towards a common team or company purpose
Excellent communication skills and being able to work independently or in a full team
Knowledge of algorithms and distributed systems
Academic background in IT or equivalent
Proficiency in English

We Offer:

A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
A unique opportunity to have 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

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