Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) at Jumia

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