About Jumia:

Jumia is a leading pan-African e-commerce platform. Its mission is to improve the quality of everyday life in Africa by leveraging technology to deliver innovative, convenient and affordable online services to customers, while helping businesses grow as they use Jumia's platform to better reach and serve customers.

Jumia is built around a marketplace and supported by a proprietary logistics business [Jumia Logistics] and a digital payment and fintech platform [Jumia Pay]. With over 3,000 employees, Jumia is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by very high-profile shareholders. Jumia is committed to creating a sustainable impact in Africa.

In April 2019, Jumia was the first Tech company in Africa to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Jumia in Porto

At Jumia Porto Tech Center we boast over 16 different nationalities. We have around 350 employees from several business areas, from IT, to Finance, to HR. The IT team represents 75% of it, so as you can see we are a major tech company, and as a Tech company, we share an innovative spirit. At Jumia PTC you will work under the most updated technologies and work methodologies. We are great fans of Agile philosophy and we aim to keep things simple but smart. Also, for Jumia, technology relates to an improvement in our world. We see technology as something we need to put purpose into. Our mission is to leverage technology to improve everyday life in Africa and we do it by delivering convenient and affordable online services to consumers, helping them fulfill basic everyday needs. And while we’re present in Africa, we get to take the African economy online, helping small and large businesses grow and reach new consumers. This is what drives our day-to-day decisions. :)

We are looking for great people to join our amazing teams and celebrate our achievements. At Jumia we work hard, but we do Tech With Purpose!

Are you eager to work in a great team and share knowledge? Do you like problem analysis and solving? Do you have a solution-oriented and proactive attitude? Jumia Porto Tech Center is for you!

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 ReactJS, VueJS or AngularJS (preference)
• 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

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