Job Overview
- Experience Level
- +8 years
- Employment Type
- Full-time
- Workplace Type
- Not specified
- Location
- Cairo
- Job function
- Engineering and Interior Design
- Application Deadline
- 16 March 2025
About the Role
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
Define NFRs, and standards for observability and collaborate with Engineering Managers to ensure highly performant solutions are developed
Ensure comprehensive documentation of system architecture, design decisions, and operational procedures
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 experience as an individual contributor working with agile methodologies and with experience architecting and running large-scale systems
Strong working experience with Java and respective web frameworks (preferably Spring)
Experience with event-driven architectures and tools for queueing and streaming (preferably Apache Kafka)
Experienced working with large-scale Databases (SQL and NoSQL)
Experience with containerization (preferably Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes)
Strong black box test Automation experience is a plus
Experience designing and developing platforms built for scale is a plus
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