Principal Java Software Engineer at Jumia Nigeria Full Time

Job Title: Principal Java Software Engineer

Location: Nigeria
Job type: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Be part of the Jumia Engineering team and play a key role in Jumia’s technology plan
• Be a role model for the Jumia Values
• Work effectively cross-functionally discussing and identifying new opportunities for projects and features
• Align architectural decisions with and across Engineering teams, ensuring the progress towards the target vision for the Jumia platform
• Arbitrate on technical decisions within your scope
• Directly contribute to systems design and write code to set the example of what technical excellence looks like in Jumia
• Coach engineers in your scope
• Ensure system reliability and compliance
• Find a group of humble and intelligent people ready to make you grow and to grow with you
• Change the Internet landscape in Africa and the World through your team

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as an individual contributor working with agile methodologies
• A proactive challenger mindset: if there’s room for improvement, you’ll say it
• A solver mindset: when there is a will, there is a way
• A strong business sense: you understand the impact of your work
• The ability to be autonomous and to own your decisions
• The ambition to grow the company and within the company
• Full professional English proficiency

We Offer 

• A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
• A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African ecommerce 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

Application Closing Date
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