Senior NodeJS Software Engineer - Jumia (Full time)

Job Description

Jumia is seeking a Senior NodeJS Software Engineer to join its Kenya Tech Center. The successful candidate will work in a team-based development environment, designing, implementing, and testing high-quality solutions. They will contribute to optimizing applications, processes, and methodologies, and collaborate with peers in development, testing, and automation tasks.

• Interpreting business/technical requirements
• Designing, implementing and testing high-quality solutions
• Working in a team-based development environment
• Optimizing applications, processes, and methodologies
• Collaborating with peers for development, testing, and automation tasks

Requirements:

• Strong working experience and knowledge with NodeJS and NodeJS frameworks (e.g. Express, NestJS)
• Clear understanding of OOP, Design Patterns and anti-patterns, SOLID principles
• Working experience with relation and non-relational databases (e.g. MySQL, Couchbase, Redis...)
• Experienced with testing layers (unit, integration and functional testing) and version control technologies (e.g. GIT)
• Understanding of Queuing and Streaming systems (e.g. SQS, Kafka)
• Academic background in IT or equivalent
• Knowledge of algorithms and distributed systems
• Proficiency in English

Jumia offers:

• 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