Senior Java Software Engineer at Jumia

3 days ago


Nairobi, Kenya Jumia Full time

JUMIA is an e-commerce startup with an aim to mimic Amazon’s success by delivering a wide range of items, from toys to generators across the African continent. Shortly after the startup of the business in Nigeria, JUMIA launched warehouses in four other growing countries which include: Egypt, Morocco, Kenya and Cote d'Ivoire.
Senior Java Software Engineer


What you will be doing

You will be part of an agile team that develops e-commerce, smart logistics, and payment solutions
Your work will integrate a service-oriented architecture using state-of-the-art technologies and software development practices
You will own your services and be responsible end-to-end
You will take ownership for your code to be qualitatively high and you will support your colleagues in code reviews
You will change the Internet landscape in Africa and the World one line of code at a time

What we are looking for

Minimum of 3 years of experience
Experienced with Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Experience with development in Java (and ideally Spring Boot framework)
Acquainted with building testable code, unit tests and/or integration tests
Knowledgeable of software design and architecture patterns
Knowledgeable of SQL and relational databases
Fluent in English



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