Senior Java Software Engineer Job at Jumia

Jumia is Africa's leading internet group, with already over 3,000 employees in more than 20 African countries and huge successes such as Jumia, Jumia Travel, Jumia Food, Jumia Deals, Jumia House, Jumia Jobs and Jumia Services. It is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by MTN, Millicom, Rocket Internet, Axa, Orange, Goldman Sachs & CdC.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Senior Java Software Engineer
Job Location: Abia
Employment Type: Full-time

What you will be doing

• You will be part of an agile team that develops e-commerce, smart logistics, and payment solutions
• Your work will integrate a service oriented architecture using state- of-the-art technologies and software development practices; You will own your services and be responsible end-to-end
• You will take ownership for your code to be qualitatively high and you will support your colleagues in code reviews
• You will change the Internet landscape in Africa and the World one line of code at a time.

What we are looking for

• Minimum of 5 years of experience
• Experienced with Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Experience with development in Java (and ideally Spring Boot framework)
• Acquainted with building testable code, unit tests and/or integration tests
• Knowledgeable of software design and architecture patterns
• Knowledgeable of SQL and relational databases
• Fluent in English.