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Jumia, a leading pan-African e-commerce platform, is seeking a Senior Frontend Developer (Angular) to join their team in Porto, Portugal. The company's mission is to improve the quality of everyday life in Africa by leveraging technology to deliver innovative, convenient, and affordable online services. Jumia values innovation, simplicity, and purpose-driven technology.
In this role, the developer will work within an agile team to create scalable solutions using state-of-the-art technologies. They will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams throughout the product lifecycle, from concept to deployment. The developer will also be responsible for constructing and testing software components, taking ownership of their code, and supporting colleagues through code reviews.
What the role involves:
- Being part of an agile team creating scalable solutions.
- Working closely with multidisciplinary teams.
- Working across the entire product lifecycle.
- Constructing and testing software components.
- Taking ownership of code quality.
- Integrating user-facing elements.
Requirements:
- 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.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Knowledge of algorithms and distributed systems.
- Academic background in IT or equivalent.
What 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 as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders.
