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  • Posted: Nov 14, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • JUMIA is an e-commerce startup with an aim to mimic Amazon’s success by delivering a wide range of items, from toys to generators across the African continent. Shortly after the startup of the business in Nigeria, JUMIA launched warehouses in four other growing countries which include: Egypt, Morocco, Kenya and Cote d'Ivoire.
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    Senior NodeJS Software Engineer

    About Jumia Tech Centers

    • Want to be part of the biggest tech center in Africa and work in mixed teams with over 16 different nationalities? Join Jumia Kenya Tech Center where tech meets purpose. At Kenya Tech Center you will be managed by and mentored by top tech leaders across Portugal, Egypt and Kenya. You will also be working with state-of-the-art technologies & methodologies, and using agile philosophy, all as means to improve the lives of millions of Africans across the continent by offering them convenient and affordable online solutions. And with that as our PURPOSE, innovation at Jumia NEVER stops and you will be moving from one exciting challenge to the next.

    What you will be doing

    • Autonomy interpreting business/technical requirements, designing, implementing and testing high-quality solutions
    • Work in a team-based development environment with a modular code base, peer reviews, and pull requests, with the disciplined use of source code control and documentation
    • Constantly aim for quality, scalability, performance, and architecture keeping good practices, security, and compliance in check
    • Be part of a fast and agile development process
    • Contribute actively and proactively to optimize applications, processes, and methodologies
    • Be willing to help peers, being part of a collaborative environment for development, testing, and automation tasks

    What we are looking for

    • Strong working experience and knowledge with NodeJS and NodeJS frameworks (e.g. Express, NestJS)
    • Clear understanding of OOP, Design Patterns and anti-patterns, SOLID principles
    • 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. SQS, Kafka)
    • Academic background in IT or equivalent
    • Knowledge of algorithms and distributed systems
    • Proficiency in English

    The following skills are not required but will make your profile stand out:

    • Knowledge in JavaScript (ES6) and VueJS, CSS is a plus
    • Experience with services/microservices-oriented architecture, ideally in an eCommerce scope
    • Familiar with SCRUM methodology

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    Method of Application

    Interested and qualified? Go to Jumia on job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io to apply

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