PHP Software Engineer - Jumia (Full Time)

Job Description

Jumia, a leading pan-African e-commerce platform, is seeking a PHP Software Engineer to join its Cairo Tech Center. The center prides itself on its diverse team and state-of-the-art technologies & methodologies.

The PHP Software Engineer will work in team-based development environment. The role involves autonomy interpreting business/technical requirements, designing, implementing and testing high-quality solutions. The candidate needs to Constantly aim for quality, scalability, performance, and architecture keeping good practices, security, and compliance in check.

What this role involves:

• Interpreting business/technical requirements
• Designing, implementing and testing high-quality solutions
• Working in a team-based development environment with a modular code base, peer reviews and pull requests
• Optimizing applications, processes, and methodologies
• Helping peers in a collaborative environment for development, testing, and automation tasks

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in PHP development
• Strong working experience and knowledge with PHP 8 and PHP frameworks (e.g. Zend Expressive, Laravel, Symfony)
• Clear understanding of OOP, Design Patterns and anti-patterns, SOLID principles
• Experience with dependency injection and ORM
• 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. RabbitMQ, Kafka)
• Academic background in IT or equivalent
• Knowledge of algorithms and distributed systems
• Proficiency in English

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