Description

Jumia is Africa's leading internet group, with already over 3,000 employees in more than 20 African countries and huge successes such as Jumia, 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. 

Porto Tech Center (PTC) is Jumia’s IT development center, with around 200 IT-specialists. Porto Tech Center was created in 2012 with the aim of focusing on IT development. At PTC, we provide you with a unique and exciting opportunity to work in an entrepreneurial environment and develop smart solutions for our group companies. We do e-commerce online shops, logistics, business intelligence and mobile applications, involving a wide range of high-end technologies for tens of millions customers. The software we create is present in more than 20 countries. Working at PTC means being in the first line of e-commerce development in emerging markets. 

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:

• Autonomy interpreting business/technical requirements, designing, implementing and testing high-quality solutions
• Work in a team-based development environment with modular code base, peer reviews and pull requests, with disciplined use of source code control and documentation
• Constant aim for quality, scalability, performance, and architecture keeping good practices, security, and compliance in check
• Be part of a fast and agile development process
• Contribute actively and proactively to optimize applications, processes, and methodologies
• Be willful to help peers, being part of a collaborative environment for development, testing and automation tasks

Requirements:

• Strong working experience and knowledge with PHP 7 and PHP frameworks (e.g. Zend Expressive, Laravel, Symfony)
• Clear understanding of OOP, Design Patterns and anti-patterns, SOLID principles
• Working experience with relation and non-relational databases (e.g. MySQL, Couchbase, ...)
• Experienced with testing layers (unit, integration and functional testing) and version control technologies (e.g. GIT)
• Understanding of Queuing systems (e.g. RabbitMQ)

Personal Skills:

• Eager to work in team environment and share knowledge
• Likes problem analysis and solving
• Enthusiast and an interested in technologies and innovation
• Solution oriented and proactive attitude, in parallel with “Get Things Done” mindset

Bonuses (the following skills are not required but will make your profile stand out):

• Experience with caching services (e.g. Memcache, Varnish) and containerization
• Prior experience with Apache Kafka
• Knowledge in JavaScript (ES6) and Node.js is a plus 
• Experience with services/microservices oriented architecture, ideally in a e-commerce scope
• Familiar with SCRUM methodology

Academic & trades qualifications

• Academic background in IT or equivalent
• Knowledge in algorithms and distributed systems
• Proficiency in English
• 2 year of experience

We offer:

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world
• An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures

Please send your CV in English. CV in other languages will not be considered.

Apply at https://bit.ly/2Vd0IM4